Conference paper
Medium Access Control for Thermal Energy Harvesting in Advanced Metering Infrastructures
In this paper we investigate the feasibility of powering wireless metering devices, namely heat cost allocators, by thermal energy harvested from radiators. The goal is to take a first step toward the realization of Energy-Harvesting Advanced Metering Infrastructures (EH-AMIs). While traditional battery-powered devices have a limited amount of energy, energy harvesting can potentially provide an infinite amount of energy for continuous operating lifetimes, thus reducing the cost involved in installation and maintenance.
The contribution of this work is twofold. First, we experimentally identify the potential energy that can be harvested from Low Surface Temperature (LST) radiators. The experiments are based on a developed Energy-Harvesting Heat Cost Allocator (EH-HCA) prototype. On the basis of this measured power budget, we model and analytically compare the currently used Medium Access Control (MAC) scheme of an industrial case study (IMR+) to a MAC scheme specifically designed for energy harvesting systems (ODMAC).
Our analytical comparison shows the efficiency of the latter, as well as its ability to adapt to harvested ambient energy.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Pages: | 291-299 |
| Proceedings: | IEEE Eurocon 2013 |
| ISBN: | 146732230X , 146732230x , 1467322326 , 1467322334 , 9781467322300 , 9781467322324 and 9781467322331 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1109/EUROCON.2013.6624999 |
| ORCIDs: | Fafoutis, Xenofon and Dragoni, Nicola |
Advanced Metering Infrastructure Distributed Embedded Systems EH-AMI EH-HCA prototype Energy harvesting IMR+ LST radiators Logic gates MAC scheme Media Access Protocol Medium Access Control ODMAC Receivers Temperature measurement Thermal Energy Harvesting Water heating Wireless Sensor Networks Wireless sensor networks access protocols automatic meter reading cooling energy harvesting energy-harvesting advanced metering infrastructures energy-harvesting heat cost allocator prototype heat cost allocators industrial case study low surface temperature radiators measured power budget medium access control scheme thermal energy harvesting wireless metering devices wireless sensor networks
