{"title":"A self-sustaining, autonomous, wireless-sensor beacon powered from long-range, ambient, RF energy","authors":"R. Vyas, B. Cook, Y. Kawahara, M. Tentzeris","doi":"10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697786","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A novel embedded sensing and wireless relay mote that powers itself from long range digital TV signals is presented. With an improved antenna, RF-DC circuit, and an energy-aware embedded-firmware design, enough wireless power from a distributed TV tower network can be harnessed for wireless sensor telemetry. A microcontroller and 900 MHz transmitter for the telemetry has been powered on and sustained from ambient TV signals at previously unreported range of 6.5 km from a TV broadcast source.","PeriodicalId":128968,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWSYM.2013.6697786","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A novel embedded sensing and wireless relay mote that powers itself from long range digital TV signals is presented. With an improved antenna, RF-DC circuit, and an energy-aware embedded-firmware design, enough wireless power from a distributed TV tower network can be harnessed for wireless sensor telemetry. A microcontroller and 900 MHz transmitter for the telemetry has been powered on and sustained from ambient TV signals at previously unreported range of 6.5 km from a TV broadcast source.