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Estimating Harvestable Energy in Time-Varying Indoor Light Conditions
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Science, Technology and Media, Department of Electronics Design.
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Science, Technology and Media, Department of Electronics Design.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8382-0359
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Science, Technology and Media, Department of Electronics Design.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9572-3639
2020 (English)In: ENSsys 2020 - Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020, p. 71-76Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Ambient light energy harvesting is a cost-effective and mature approach for supplying low-power sensor systems with power in many indoor applications. Although the spectral information of a light source is known to influence the efficiency and output power of a photovoltaic cell, the spectrum of the ambient illumination is due to measurement complexity often neglected when characterizing light conditions for power estimation purposes. In this paper we evaluate the influence of considering spectral information on the energy estimation accuracy. We create a dataset of varying light conditions in a typical indoor environment based on eight locations. For each location, we compare the energy estimation accuracy with and without spectral considerations. The results of this investigation demonstrate that a spectrum-based method leads to significant performance improvements in cases where the light condition is not defined by a single light source.

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 71-76
Keywords [en]
ambient light, energy estimation, energy harvesting, photovoltaics
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Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-40812DOI: 10.1145/3417308.3430270Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85097395421ISBN: 9781450381291 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-40812DiVA, id: diva2:1512183
Conference
8th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems, ENSsys 2020, co-located with ACM SenSys 2020, 16 November 2020
Available from: 2020-12-22 Created: 2020-12-22 Last updated: 2021-01-19Bibliographically approved
In thesis
1. Power Estimation for Indoor Light Energy Harvesting
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Power Estimation for Indoor Light Energy Harvesting
2021 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The growing popularity of indoor light energy harvesting for wireless sensor systems and low-power electronics has created a demand for systematic power estimation methods for different lighting conditions. Although existing research has recognized the critical role played by the spectral information on the output power of a photovoltaic cell, power estimation methods have rarely considered it. The vast majority of studies on the power estimation method in the past few years have focused on the conventional diode model, and even though scaling the parameters to other light conditions seems plausible, it is sometimes problematic to interpret the physical meanings of some parameters from theory. Therefore, a systematic investigation of the light condition characterization and PV cell modeling is fundamental to appropriately estimate the available light energy of an indoor environment. The power estimation method proposed in this thesis takes both spectral and intensity information into account and provides a data-driven approach to solve the scaling problem. We use low-cost sensors to measure spectral information and select an appropriate device model based on the classification of the light source. The evaluation results for both lab and real-world light conditions show that the proposed method achieves sufficient accuracy. This study provides new insights into the indoor light energy harvesting system design and makes a contribution to research on available energy estimation of the ambient environment.

Abstract [sv]

Intresset för att skörda energi från inomhusbelysning har ökat för att strömförsörja trådlösa sensorsystem och lågeffektelektronik och har skapat enefterfrågan på systematiska metoder för att estimera hur mycket effekt somkan skördas i olika ljusförhållanden. Även om befintlig forskning har visatden kritiska roll som spektralinformation spelar för solcellers uteffekt, så tasden inte i beaktad för effektestimeringen. De allra flesta studier om effektestimeringsmetoder under de senaste åren har fokuserat på den konventionella diodmodellen, och även om skalning av modellens parametrar till andra ljusförhållanden verkar rimliga är det ibland problematiskt att tolka den fysiskabetydelsen av vissa parametrar. Därför är en systematisk undersökning avkaraktäriseringen av ljusförhållanden och modellering av solceller grundläg-gande för att korrekt uppskatta den tillgängliga ljusenergin i en inomhus-miljö. Den effektestimeringsmetod som föreslås i den här avhandlingen tarhänsyn till både spektral- och intensitetsinformation och ger en datadrivenmetod för att lösa skalningsproblemet. Vi använder enkla ljussensorer för attmäta spektralinformation och utifrån spektralinformationen väljs en lämpligmodell för solcellen baserat på klassificering av ljuskällan. Resultaten förbåde labb och verkliga ljusförhållanden visar att den föreslagna metodenuppnår tillräcklig god noggrannhet. Denna studie ger nya insikter i dimen-sioneringen av energiskördesystemet för ljusenergi inomhus och bidrar tillforskning om tillgänglig energiuppskattning i den omgivande miljön.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sundsvall: Mid Sweden University, 2021. p. 52
Series
Mid Sweden University doctoral thesis, ISSN 1652-893X ; 338
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-40885 (URN)978-91-88947-86-4 (ISBN)
Public defence
2021-01-08, C312 och via Zoom, Holmgatan 10, Sundsvall, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2021-01-19 Created: 2021-01-18 Last updated: 2021-01-19Bibliographically approved

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