超低電壓能量采集器采用熱電發(fā)生器實(shí)現(xiàn)無(wú)電池?zé)o線傳感器

　　超低功耗無(wú)線傳感器節(jié)點(diǎn)的測(cè)量和控制，結(jié)合新的能量收集技術(shù)，使得能夠產(chǎn)生完全由本地環(huán)境能量而不是電池供電的自治系統(tǒng)成為可能。從環(huán)境或“自由”能量供電無(wú)線傳感器節(jié)點(diǎn)是有吸引力的，因?yàn)樗梢匝a(bǔ)充或消除對(duì)電池或電線的需要。當(dāng)電池更換或維修不方便、昂貴或危險(xiǎn)時(shí)，這是一個(gè)明顯的好處。

　　電線的完全缺乏也使得大規(guī)模監(jiān)控和控制系統(tǒng)的擴(kuò)展變得容易。能量收集無(wú)線傳感器系統(tǒng)簡(jiǎn)化了在樓宇自動(dòng)化、無(wú)線/自動(dòng)計(jì)量和預(yù)測(cè)維護(hù)等眾多領(lǐng)域的安裝和維護(hù)，以及許多其他工業(yè)、軍事、汽車和消費(fèi)應(yīng)用。

　　能量收集的好處是顯而易見的，但一個(gè)有效的能量收集系統(tǒng)需要一個(gè)聰明的電源管理方案，將自由能極小的水平成了無(wú)線傳感器系統(tǒng)的可用。

　　It‘s all about the duty cycle

　　Many wireless sensor systems consume very low average power， making them prime candidates to be powered by energy harvesting techniques. Many sensor nodes are used to monitor physical quantities that change slowly. Measurements can therefore be taken and transmitted infrequently， resulting in a low duty cycle of operation and a correspondingly low average power requirement.

　　For example， if a sensor system requires 3.3 V at 30 mA （100 mW） while awake， but is only active for 10 ms out of every second， then the average power required is only 1mW， assuming the sensor system current is reduced to microamps during the inactive time between transmit bursts. If the same wireless sensor only samples and transmits once a minute instead of once a second， the average power plummets under 20 μW. This difference is significant because most forms of energy harvesting offer very little steady-state power–usually no more than a few milliwatts， and in some cases only microwatts. The less average power required by an application， the more likely it can be powered by harvested energy.