CAREER:Body-enabled Design Paradigm: A New Pathway for Next Generation Battery-free Wireless Sensor Nodes Powered by Sustainable Energy Sources

这项研究的目的是为生物医学应用、监测公共基础设施、环境监测和国土安全的可再生能源供电的无电池无线传感器开发一种变革性的设计范例。这项研究的重点是创造高能效的无线传感器，并以最高效率从可持续能源中为传感器提供电力。该方法是以创新的方式使用缩放设备的身体终端，以实现一种新的节能身体设计范例，为由可持续能源供电的无电池无线传感器开辟了一条新途径。就智能价值而言，该研究有潜力开发一种变革性的设计范式，以显着降低无线传感器的功耗，并基于新的设计范式锻造可重构的节能电源管理系统，以最大限度地从能量传感器获取能量并有效地为传感器供电。结合数字辅助架构和设计范式，将开发新的无电池节能无线传感器硬件架构。该项目的更广泛影响包括为各种重要应用提供无电池无线传感器。此外，新的设计范式有可能提高美国工业在通信市场上的竞争力。该项目将通过将这项研究与可持续无线传感器的新课程和高级设计项目相结合，改善教育计划。该项目将增加研究生培训，并通过为女高中生提供实习机会和为来自代表性不足群体的学生提供夏令营来增加内部的多样性。该项目还将通过与当地科学中心的合作，提高公众对科学和工程重要性的认识。

The objective of this research is to develop a transformative design paradigm for battery-free wireless sensors powered by renewable energy sources for biomedical applications, monitoring public infrastructures, environmental monitoring, and homeland security. This research focuses on creating energy-efficient wireless sensors and providing power to sensors from sustainable energy sources with maximum efficiency. The approach is to use the body terminal of scaled devices in innovative ways to enable a novel energy-efficient body-enabled design paradigm, forging a new pathway to battery-free wireless sensors powered by sustainable energy sources.With respect to intellectual merit, the research has the potential to develop a transformative design paradigm to significantly reduce power consumption of wireless sensors and forging reconfigurable energy-efficient power management systems based on the new design paradigm to maximally harvest energy from energy transducers and efficiently power the sensors. Combining digitally-assisted architectures and the design paradigm, new hardware architectures for battery-free energy-efficient wireless sensors will be developed.The broader impacts of this project include enabling battery-free wireless sensors for a variety of important applications. Furthermore, the new design paradigm has the potential to advance the competitiveness of U.S. industries in communication markets. The project will improve educational programs through integration of this research with a new course in sustainable wireless sensors and a senior design project. The project will increase graduate student training and increase diversity within through internships for female high school students and summer camps for students from underrepresented groups. The project will also increase public awareness of the importance of science and engineering via collaboration with a local science center.