Alternative Renewable Resources for Powering a Wireless Sensor Node
Keywords:
Wireless sensor node, Batteries, Renewable energy sources, thermal energy, thermocouple, Intellisuite software.Abstract
Wireless sensor network are tremendously increasing their applications. Wireless sensor
nodes are building blocks of wireless sensor nodes. The powering of wireless sensor node can be
done by batteries which have very short lifetime. The battery should be replaced after its life time
because power provided by batteries would not last long. In this paper, a wireless sensor node is
powered using renewable resources. Different types of renewable resources are identified and the
wireless sensor node is powered using one of the renewable resources so that it can operate in any
environment. The obtained voltage is given to wireless sensor node according to the proposed
model.The thermocouple in this model is designed in intellisuit software in 3D module. The obtained
voltage at the output is again passed through the remaining blocks in the proposed model and finally
it can be viewed in LCD display.
