Energy harvesting in wireless sensor networks: A comprehensive review

Faisal Karim Shaikh; Sherali Zeadally

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.11.010

Energy harvesting in wireless sensor networks: A comprehensive review

Faisal Karim Shaikh
, Sherali Zeadally

School of Information Science

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Abstract

Recently, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have attracted lot of attention due to their pervasive nature and their wide deployment in Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, and other emerging areas. The limited energy associated with WSNs is a major bottleneck of WSN technologies. To overcome this major limitation, the design and development of efficient and high performance energy harvesting systems for WSN environments are being explored. We present a comprehensive taxonomy of the various energy harvesting sources that can be used by WSNs. We also discuss various recently proposed energy prediction models that have the potential to maximize the energy harvested in WSNs. Finally, we identify some of the challenges that still need to be addressed to develop cost-effective, efficient, and reliable energy harvesting systems for the WSN environment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1041-1054
Number of pages	14
Journal	Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Volume	55
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.11.010
State	Published - Mar 1 2016

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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.

Funding

The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments, which helped to improve the quality of this paper. This work is partially supported by HEC , ICTRnD , and Mehran UET , Pakistan. We thank STU and TCMCORE at UQU, KSA for their continued support.

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Mehran UET
Higher Education Commission, Pakistan

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Energy harvesting
Flow harvester
Photovoltaic harvester
Piezoelectric harvester
Thermal harvester
Vibration harvester
Wind harvester

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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