Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting for Building Energy Management Wireless Sensor Networks

A thermoelectric energy harvester powered wireless sensor networks (WSNs) module designed for building energy management (BEM) applications is built and tested in this work. An analytic thermoelectric generator (TEG) electrical model is built and verified based on parameters given in manufacturer da...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wensi Wang, Victor Cionca, Ningning Wang, Mike Hayes, Brendan O'Flynn, Cian O'Mathuna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2013-06-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/232438