Self-Powered Systems

Self-Powered Systems: Energy Harvesting, Power Management and Wireless Communication explains how ambient energy can power autonomous electronic and wireless systems. It compares major harvesting technologies and explains rectification, DC-to-DC conversion, maximum-power-point tracking, storage, cold start, and energy neutrality. The book also addresses intermittent computing, checkpointing, energy-aware scheduling, hardware-software co-design, and low-power communication including BLE, Zigbee, LoRaWAN, backscatter, and Ambient IoT. It explains how ambient energy can support autonomous electronic and wireless systems. The book covers harvesting technologies, power management, energy storage, intermittent computing, and low-power communication, linking theory with practical design across industrial, infrastructure, healthcare, wearable, and environmental sensing.Key FeaturesIntegrates energy harvesting, power management, storage, computation, and wireless communication within a unified system-design framework.Compares photovoltaic, electromagnetic, radio-frequency, triboelectric, piezoelectric, and thermoelectric energy-harvesting technologies.Explains rectification, DC-to-DC conversion, maximum-power-point tracking, energy storage, cold start, and energy and power neutrality.Examines intermittent computing through checkpointing, persistent state, task-based execution, and energy-aware scheduling.Evaluates BLE, Zigbee, Wi-Fi HaLow, LoRaWAN, cellular LPWAN, backscatter, and Ambient IoT for energy-constrained systems.Addresses hardware-software co-design, source variability, impedance matching, communication duty cycles, and reliable autonomous operation.Connects harvesting and communication technologies with applications in industrial monitoring, infrastructure, transport, healthcare, wearables, and environmental sensing.This book is for readers developing autonomous wireless sensing and IoT systems who require practical knowledge of energy harvesting, power management, intermittent computing, low-power communication, and Ambient IoT technologies. It is for students, researchers, practising engineers, and technology developers in electronics, electrical engineering, energy systems, embedded systems, wireless communication, and the Internet of Things.