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Internet of things and Energy Harvesting

Yosi Shacham-Diamand

June 2024

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Example: smart label (CartaSense Inc., Israel)

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IoT value spectrum – �food/good/phrama chain monitoring

  • Offering
  • Data collection

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Manufacturer

Departure�(Air / Sea)

Arrival�(Air / Sea)

Distribution centre

Customer

Automatic alerts, reports & insights

Facility

Gateways

Wireless Sensors

Vehicle Gateways

Cellular

Tracker

BLE

Sticker

Cellular

Sensor

Sensors & infrastructure

Analytics related services

Prediction

Alerts

Web

Risk

Reports

Other services

Logistics Monitoring

Facility monitoring

Mapping

Validation

Cloud-based services

Cloud collection of data from start to end in real-time and shares information with users for best operational insights, facility visibility and shipment tracking

Cloud

Distribution centre

End-to-end real-time data collection and analysis

Insights on shipment status accessible via cloud

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Typical IoT scenario including Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).

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IoT power needs

Wireless sensor (IoT device) with energy harvesting

architectures: Harvest-Use.

Wireless sensor (IoT device) with energy harvesting architectures: Harvest-Store-Use.

S. Sudevalayam and P. Kulkarni, ``Energy harvesting sensor nodes: Survey and implications,'' IEEE Commun. Surveys Tuts., vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 443 461, 3rd Quart., 2011.

Wireless sensor (IoT device) components.

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Types of energy sources.

Energy harvesting system.

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Hesham, R., Soltan, A. and Madian, A., 2021. Energy harvesting schemes for wearable devices. AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications138, p.153888.

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Analysis of Energy Harvesting Techniques.

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Agro & Food

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Solutions that we explore

  1. Battery (for deiposable devices)
    • Printed battery to reduce cost, weignt and size. (Proprietay of CartaSense Ltd.)
  2. Solar + rechargeble battery – for longer time applications (example: https://sol-chip.com/)
    • Off the shelf components
  3. Use sesnors that require less energy:
    • Plant based sensors (https://innerplant.com/)

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Digital Village: A Data-Driven Approach to Precision Agriculture in Small Farms Project

TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, ISRAEL

Prof. Yosi Shacham (Plant Biosensors and Sensor Networks)

Prof. Eyal Ben Dor (Geo-Sensing and Multispectral Imaging),

Prof. Ram Fishman (Public Policy and its Evaluation) ,

PUNJAB AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY, LUDHIANA

Prof. Dhanwinder Singh (Soil Scientist) ,

Prof. Manjeet Singh (Spectrometry Lab Expert)

Dr Aseem Verma (Farm Machinery )

Er Tarandeep Singh (Remote Sensing & IoT Sensors )

Dr Manpreet Singh Khiva (Agronomist)

THAPAR INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, PATIALA

Prof. Parteek Bhatia Coordinator, (Machine Learning, Big Data Analysis)

Dr. Amit Mishra (Remote sensing & IoT based Sensors)

Dr. Karun Verma, (Cloud based server management, Machine Learning, Big Data Analysis, Time Series Prediction)

Dr Jhilik Bhattacharya, (Remote Sensing)

TIET-TAU Center of Excellence for food Security (T2CEFS)