Research Website
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ESL/
Keywords
Internet of Things, Embedded Systems, Low Power, Energy Harvesting
Presentation Type
Event
Research Abstract
The coming years will see a surge of billions more devices connected in an “Internet of Things” (IoT) that aim to improve the day to day life of humans by sensing relevant physical phenomena and using the data to make intelligent decisions and predictions. But with current devices, this surge will result in billions more batteries needing to be used and changed regularly. The need for batteries—and its impact—can be mitigated through low power devices that harvest ambient energy (e.g. solar, vibrational, thermoelectric, radio wave), but energy harvesting devices require the ability to continue computations across power cycles, a paradigm known as transiently powered computing. The Embedded Systems Lab has designed the QUBE embedded hardware platform to meet this need. The QUBE’s capabilities have been demonstrated in the lab, but the QUBE has never been used in a real world application. The QUBE is paired to a smartphone via Bluetooth and data received from its environmental sensors is transmitted in real-time. Power is turned on and off to simulate power cycling.
Session Track
Energy
Recommended Citation
Jacob Stevens, Hrishikesh Jayakumar, and Vijay Raghunathan,
"Demonstration of a Platform Architecture That Enables Ultra-Low Power IoT Applications"
(August 6, 2015).
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium.
Paper 80.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/surf/2015/presentations/80
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Demonstration of a Platform Architecture That Enables Ultra-Low Power IoT Applications
The coming years will see a surge of billions more devices connected in an “Internet of Things” (IoT) that aim to improve the day to day life of humans by sensing relevant physical phenomena and using the data to make intelligent decisions and predictions. But with current devices, this surge will result in billions more batteries needing to be used and changed regularly. The need for batteries—and its impact—can be mitigated through low power devices that harvest ambient energy (e.g. solar, vibrational, thermoelectric, radio wave), but energy harvesting devices require the ability to continue computations across power cycles, a paradigm known as transiently powered computing. The Embedded Systems Lab has designed the QUBE embedded hardware platform to meet this need. The QUBE’s capabilities have been demonstrated in the lab, but the QUBE has never been used in a real world application. The QUBE is paired to a smartphone via Bluetooth and data received from its environmental sensors is transmitted in real-time. Power is turned on and off to simulate power cycling.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/surf/2015/presentations/80