Design considerations to move towards autonomously powered sensor systems
Content of the lecture:
The lecture will discuss the design issues, challenges and considerations for an autonomously powered wireless sensor node using energy harvesting. An example use case will be presented that takes the student through the process of designing a power system for a Wireless Sensor, from identification and framing of the technical challenge from the user requirements through to system design, component selection and power conversation strategies.
The lecture will be broken down into the following sections.
- How the power challenge is one of the barriers to wide spread adoption of Sensor Networks
- A systems approach to powering wireless Sensors
- Framing the Challenge, developing a requirements specification
- System Modelling,
- Trade-Offs
- Example Design Use Case
- System Component Selection
- Power Management the heart of the system
- Energy Generation
- Energy Storage
- Power Consumption (Wireless Sensor)
- System Power conservation Strategies
- Some practical design considerations
- Future Technologies and Direction
Teacher: Eng. Peter Haigh
Peter is a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Engineering and Technology and holds a first class honor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Southampton Solent University in the UK. He has over 30 years experience in the electronics industry working for a number of blue chip companies. Peter’s work in his early years was predominantly in the area of radio communications focusing on DSP, RF, Microwave and Millimeter Wave technologies. In the latter half of his career Peter has held senior positions at Analog Devices, MACom and Harris in the area of ultra-low power radio communications. Today, Peter holds the position of Principal Engineer at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland, where his work is focused on ultra-low power, energy harvested, sensing technologies. Whilst at Tyndall, Peter has worked on a number of EU and Irish Government funded projects in the area of Industry 4.0, Smart Wearables and Building Energy Management.