Environmental Energy Harvesting

Title: Environmental Energy Harvesting
Invited Speaker: Aman Kansal, UCLA
Date: FRIDAY, August 15th, 2003
Time: 1pm-2pm
Venue: Room # 4760, Boelter Hall, UCLA
http://www.cens.ucla.edu/seminars/seminar_summer03.html

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Abstract:

Energy constrained systems can increase their lifetime by extracting energy from the environment. First, we argue that significant improvements in lifetime can be achieved if the task allocation can be aligned with the spatio-temporal characteristics of energy availability. These improvements are in addition to residual battery aware scheduling and are substantiated by simulations on James Reserve based data. Second, we propose a harvesting theory which allows us to ensure reliable operation from a highly variable environemental energy source. We illustrate its application to a particular use case.

Aman Kansal received his BS in Electrical Engineering and MS in Communications and Signal Processing in 2001 and 2002 respectively from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is presently pursuing his doctorate at EE Dept, UCLA. His recent research interests include wireless and embedded networks.