TY - GEN
T1 - New Directions
T2 - 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2017
AU - Hester, Josiah
AU - Sorber, Jacob
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant CNS-1453607. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
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PY - 2017/11/6
Y1 - 2017/11/6
N2 - Sensing has been obsessed with delivering on the “smart dust” vision outlined decades ago, where trillions of tiny invisible computers support daily life, infrastructure, and humanity in general. Batteries are the single greatest threat to this vision of a sustainable Internet of Things. They are expensive, bulky, hazardous, and wear out after a few years (even rechargeables). Replacing and disposing of billions or trillions of dead batteries per year would be expensive and irresponsible. By leaving the batteries behind and surviving off energy harvested from the environment, tiny intermittently powered computers can monitor objects in hard to reach places maintenance free for decades. The intermittent execution, constrained compute and energy resources, and unreliability of these devices creates new challenges for the sensing and embedded systems community. However, the rewards and potential impact across many fields are worth it, enabling currently impractical applications in health services and patient care, commercial and consumer applications, wildlife conservation, industrial and infrastructure management, even space exploration. This paper highlights major research questions and establishes new directions for the community to embrace and investigate.
AB - Sensing has been obsessed with delivering on the “smart dust” vision outlined decades ago, where trillions of tiny invisible computers support daily life, infrastructure, and humanity in general. Batteries are the single greatest threat to this vision of a sustainable Internet of Things. They are expensive, bulky, hazardous, and wear out after a few years (even rechargeables). Replacing and disposing of billions or trillions of dead batteries per year would be expensive and irresponsible. By leaving the batteries behind and surviving off energy harvested from the environment, tiny intermittently powered computers can monitor objects in hard to reach places maintenance free for decades. The intermittent execution, constrained compute and energy resources, and unreliability of these devices creates new challenges for the sensing and embedded systems community. However, the rewards and potential impact across many fields are worth it, enabling currently impractical applications in health services and patient care, commercial and consumer applications, wildlife conservation, industrial and infrastructure management, even space exploration. This paper highlights major research questions and establishes new directions for the community to embrace and investigate.
KW - Batteryless
KW - Energy harvesting
KW - Intermittent
KW - Sensing
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U2 - 10.1145/3131672.3131699
DO - 10.1145/3131672.3131699
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052026795
T3 - SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
BT - SenSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
A2 - Eskicioglu, Rasit
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 6 November 2017 through 8 November 2017
ER -