Towards Deployable Battery-Free Networked Systems

The ecological impact of today’s battery-powered Internet of Things (IoT) is troubling. Technology advancements that reduce the reliance on batteries could blunt the environmental impact of the projected billions of IoT devices. With the emergence of low-cost, small, and high-performance microcontrollers, along with more efficient micro-energy...

Optimizing Connection Establishment and Parameter Adaptation in Bluetooth Low-Energy for Intermittently-powered Devices

The growing field of research into batteryless or intermittent systems has enabled Internet of Things applications that were previously impossible. For example, the FreeBie system recently introduced Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE)<br/>to intermittent devices, making medium to long range bi-directional communication a reality for the first time....

Keeping Track of Time on Energy Harvesting Systems

Energy-harvesting devices have enabled Internet of Things applications that were impossible before. Power failures are the norm for these battery-less devices, imposing a challenge to maintain a continued notion of time on these energy restricted devices. To address this challenge we introduce a novel time measurement architecture for energy...