Radio frequency energy harvesting and low power data transmission for autonomous wireless sensor nodes

Since the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to be the new technology to drive the semiconductor industry, significant research efforts have been made to develop new circuit and system techniques for autonomous/very low-power operation of wireless sensor nodes. Very low-power consumption of sensors is key to increase battery lifetime or allow...

Wireless Sensor Platform for Sporting Applications

With Wireless Sensors widely used in various domains like home automation, industrial monitoring there is a market urge to deploy the wireless sensors in sporting applications. By deploying wireless sensors in sports, various dimensions of use-case scenarios become obvious which include monitoring sports players to help assess their fitness...

Fault-Tolerant Platform for Intra-Spacecraft Modular Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless sensor networks are becoming ubiquitous in terrestrial applications. In this thesis we present a platform for wireless on-board spacecraft sensor networks with focus on the sensors that bring high 'added value' to existing space systems while becoming wireless. A novel multi-gateway architecture that uses dual hardware redundancy is...