Hybrid Micro-Energy Harvesting Model using WSN for Self-Sustainable Wireless Mobile Charging Application

Abstract

The self-sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) face a major challenge in terms of energy efficiency as they have to operate without replacement of batteries. The benefits of renewable and green energy are taken into consideration for sensing and charging the battery in recent literatures using Energy Harvesting (EH) techniques. The sensors are provided with a reliable energy source through Wireless Charging (WC) techniques. Several challenges in WSN are addressed by combining these technologies. However, it is essential to consider the deployment cost in these systems. This paper presents a self-sustainable energy efficient WSN based model for Mobile Charger (MC) and Energy Harvesting Base Station (EHBS) while considering the cost of deployment. This system can also be used for low-cost microelectronic devices and low-cost Micro-Energy Harvesting (MEH) system-based applications. While considering the deployment cost, the network lifetime is maximized and an extensive comparison of simulation with various existing models is presented to emphasize the validity of the proposed model.