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A Comprehensive Survey on RF Energy Harvesting: Applications and Performance Determinants
There has been an explosion in research focused on Internet of Things (IoT) devices in recent years, with a broad range of use cases in different domains ranging from industrial automation to business analytics. Being battery-powered, these small devices are expected to last for extended periods (i....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9026445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35458973 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22082990 |
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author | Sherazi, Hafiz Husnain Raza Zorbas, Dimitrios O’Flynn, Brendan |
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description | There has been an explosion in research focused on Internet of Things (IoT) devices in recent years, with a broad range of use cases in different domains ranging from industrial automation to business analytics. Being battery-powered, these small devices are expected to last for extended periods (i.e., in some instances up to tens of years) to ensure network longevity and data streams with the required temporal and spatial granularity. It becomes even more critical when IoT devices are installed within a harsh environment where battery replacement/charging is both costly and labour intensive. Recent developments in the energy harvesting paradigm have significantly contributed towards mitigating this critical energy issue by incorporating the renewable energy potentially available within any environment in which a sensor network is deployed. Radio Frequency (RF) energy harvesting is one of the promising approaches being investigated in the research community to address this challenge, conducted by harvesting energy from the incident radio waves from both ambient and dedicated radio sources. A limited number of studies are available covering the state of the art related to specific research topics in this space, but there is a gap in the consolidation of domain knowledge associated with the factors influencing the performance of RF power harvesting systems. Moreover, a number of topics and research challenges affecting the performance of RF harvesting systems are still unreported, which deserve special attention. To this end, this article starts by providing an overview of the different application domains of RF power harvesting outlining their performance requirements and summarizing the RF power harvesting techniques with their associated power densities. It then comprehensively surveys the available literature on the horizons that affect the performance of RF energy harvesting, taking into account the evaluation metrics, power propagation models, rectenna architectures, and MAC protocols for RF energy harvesting. Finally, it summarizes the available literature associated with RF powered networks and highlights the limitations, challenges, and future research directions by synthesizing the research efforts in the field of RF energy harvesting to progress research in this area. |
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spelling | pubmed-90264452022-04-23 A Comprehensive Survey on RF Energy Harvesting: Applications and Performance Determinants Sherazi, Hafiz Husnain Raza Zorbas, Dimitrios O’Flynn, Brendan Sensors (Basel) Review There has been an explosion in research focused on Internet of Things (IoT) devices in recent years, with a broad range of use cases in different domains ranging from industrial automation to business analytics. Being battery-powered, these small devices are expected to last for extended periods (i.e., in some instances up to tens of years) to ensure network longevity and data streams with the required temporal and spatial granularity. It becomes even more critical when IoT devices are installed within a harsh environment where battery replacement/charging is both costly and labour intensive. Recent developments in the energy harvesting paradigm have significantly contributed towards mitigating this critical energy issue by incorporating the renewable energy potentially available within any environment in which a sensor network is deployed. Radio Frequency (RF) energy harvesting is one of the promising approaches being investigated in the research community to address this challenge, conducted by harvesting energy from the incident radio waves from both ambient and dedicated radio sources. A limited number of studies are available covering the state of the art related to specific research topics in this space, but there is a gap in the consolidation of domain knowledge associated with the factors influencing the performance of RF power harvesting systems. Moreover, a number of topics and research challenges affecting the performance of RF harvesting systems are still unreported, which deserve special attention. To this end, this article starts by providing an overview of the different application domains of RF power harvesting outlining their performance requirements and summarizing the RF power harvesting techniques with their associated power densities. It then comprehensively surveys the available literature on the horizons that affect the performance of RF energy harvesting, taking into account the evaluation metrics, power propagation models, rectenna architectures, and MAC protocols for RF energy harvesting. Finally, it summarizes the available literature associated with RF powered networks and highlights the limitations, challenges, and future research directions by synthesizing the research efforts in the field of RF energy harvesting to progress research in this area. MDPI 2022-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9026445/ /pubmed/35458973 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22082990 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Sherazi, Hafiz Husnain Raza Zorbas, Dimitrios O’Flynn, Brendan A Comprehensive Survey on RF Energy Harvesting: Applications and Performance Determinants |
title | A Comprehensive Survey on RF Energy Harvesting: Applications and Performance Determinants |
title_full | A Comprehensive Survey on RF Energy Harvesting: Applications and Performance Determinants |
title_fullStr | A Comprehensive Survey on RF Energy Harvesting: Applications and Performance Determinants |
title_full_unstemmed | A Comprehensive Survey on RF Energy Harvesting: Applications and Performance Determinants |
title_short | A Comprehensive Survey on RF Energy Harvesting: Applications and Performance Determinants |
title_sort | comprehensive survey on rf energy harvesting: applications and performance determinants |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9026445/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35458973 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22082990 |
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