Event Date: February 8, 2021 16:15
Batteryless Sensing
Abstract - Over the last decade, energy harvesting has seen significant growth as different markets adopt green, sustainable ways to produce electrical energy. Even though costs have fallen, the embedded computing and Internet of Things community have not yet widely adopted energy-harvesting-based solutions. This is partly due to a mismatch between power density in energy harvesters and electronic devices which, until recently, required a battery or super-capacitor to be functional. This mismatch is especially accentuated in indoor environments, where there is comparably less primary energy available than in outdoor environments. In this talk, I will present a design methodology that can optimize energy flow in dynamic environments without requiring batteries or super-capacitors. Furthermore, I will discuss the general applicability of this approach by presenting several batteryless sensing applications for both static and wearable deployments.
Short bio - Andres Gomez received a dual degree in electronics engineering and computer engineering from the Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, an M.Sc. degree from the ALaRI Institute (Università della Svizzera Italiana), Switzerland, and a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He has over ten years of experience with embedded systems and has worked in multiple research laboratories in Colombia, Italy, and Switzerland. More recently, he has worked as an R&D engineer at Miromico AG. He has co-authored more than 20 scientific articles and has contributed to multiple open-source projects. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His current research interests include batteryless system design, the Internet of Things and the Web of Things.
Watch the talk via the following link: https://youtu.be/ntp_l6Nem1s
