Self-powered Energy Harvesting Systems for Health Supervising Applications

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
	References
2 Self-powered Nodes for Structural Health Monitoring Applications
	2.1 Wireless Sensor Nodes for Aerospace Applications
	2.2 Adaptative Self-powered Circuit for Structural Health Monitoring
		2.2.1 Piezoelectric-Based Energy-Harvesting System
		2.2.2 Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm
		2.2.3 Analog Control Unit
		2.2.4 Wireless Transmission of Strain
	2.3 Energy-Aware Adaptative Supercapacitor Storage System
	2.4 CMOS Integrated Circuit for Structural Health Monitoring
	2.5 Conclusions
	References
3 Galvanic Cell-Based Self-powered Devices
	3.1 Dual-Galvanic Cell-Based Self-powered Devices
		3.1.1 The Paper-Based Test Strip
		3.1.2 The Electronic Reader
	3.2 Single-Galvanic Cell-Based Self-powered Devices
		3.2.1 The Galvanic Cell
		3.2.2 The Electronic Reader
		3.2.3 Point-Of-Care Device Characterization
		3.2.4 Results Summary
	3.3 Conclusions
	References
4 Ubiquitous Self-powered Architectures
	4.1 Exploiting the Transducer Role as a Sensor and Power Source Simultaneously
	4.2 Ubiquitous Self-powered Architecture
	4.3 Conclusions
	References
5 LoRa Autosensed Self-powered Monitoring for Smart Industry
	5.1 Low-Power Communications
		5.1.1 Long-Range Communications
		5.1.2 Long-Range Wide-Area Network
	5.2 Algorithm to Enable LPWAN on Critical Low-Power Scenarios
	5.3 Scenario Test
	5.4 Conclusions
	References
6 Conclusions and Future Work
	6.1 Conclusions
	6.2 Future Work