Batteryless Computing

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Devices that survive using harvested enegy, store that energy in small cpacitors, and work opportunistically maintenance-free for decades. Devices that make the most of energy when it is available and get useful work done in the face of frequent power failures.

Computational RFIDs2.


  1. Batteries Not Included. pdf ↩
  2. A. N. Parks, A. P. Sample, Y. Zhao, and J. R. Smith. A wireless sensing platform utilizing ambient RF energy. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium. IEEE, 2013, 331–333. ↩
Created Oct 14, 2019 // Last Updated Oct 14, 2019

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