Energy-harvesting based sensing system

Energy-harvesting based sensing system

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Recent advancements in energy-harvesting hardware have created an opportunity for realizing batteryless wearables for continuous and pervasive human activity recognition. Unfortunately, power consumption of accelerometers used in conventional HAR is relatively high compared to the amount of power that can be harvested practically, which limits the usefulness of energy harvesting. We explore the feasibility of using the output signal of energy harvesting devices for sensing. We have designed a number of energy harvesting based sensing systems such as gait recognition, communication, activity recognition, and transportation mode detection. Our results demonstrate that the designed system can achieve the same accuracy as accelerometer-based systems, yet consumes only a small fraction of the limited harvested energy.

  • [TMC] Dong Ma, Guohao Lan, Weitao Xu, Mahbub Hassan, Wen Hu. "Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Gait Recognition using Piezoelectric Energy Harvester". IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, accepted in Oct 2020. (SCI IF: 5.115, CCF A, 中科院二区) [PDF]
  • [TITS] Guohao Lan, Weitao Xu*, Dong Ma, Sara Khalifa, Mahbub Hassan, Wen Hu. "EnTrans: Leveraging Kinetic Energy Harvesting Signal for Transportation Mode Detection". IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation System, Volume 21, Issue 7, pp. 2816-2827, July 2020. (IF: 6.319, CCF B, 中科院一区)
  • [TIoT] Guohao Lan, Dong Ma, Weitao Xu, Mahbub Hassan, Wen Hu. "Capacitor based activity sensing for kinetic powered wearable IoTs", ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, February 2020.
  • [Ubicomp 2020] Qi Lin, Weitao Xu*, Guohao Lan, Hong Jia, Yesheng Cui, Wen Hu, Mahbuh Hassan, Aruna Seneviratne. "KEHKey: Kinetic Energy Harvester-based Authentication and Key Generation for Body Area Network", IMWUT 2020. (CCF A)
  • [IoTDI 2018] Dong Ma, Guohao Lan, Weitao Xu, Mahbub Hassan, Wen Hu. SEHS: Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Sensing using Piezoelectric Energy Harvester, Florida, USA, 2018.04.17-20
  • [Percom' 2017] Guohao Lan, Weitao Xu, Sara Khalifa, Mahbub Hassan, Wen Hu. “VEH-COM:Demodulating Vibration Energy Harvesting for Short Range Communication”. In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Percom), Hawaii, USA, 2017.3.13-17. (CCF B)
  • [NDSS' 2017] Weitao Xu, Guohao Lan, Qi Lin, Sara Khalifa, Neil Bergmann, Mahbub Hassan, Wen Hu. “KEH-Gait: Towards a Mobile Healthcare User Authentication System by Kinetic Energy Harvesting”. In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium 2017 (NDSS 2017), San Diego, California, USA, 2017.2.26-3.1. (CCF B)
  • [Mobiquitous' 2017] Guohao Lan, Dong Ma, Weitao Xu, Mahbub Hassan, Wen Hu. “CapSense: Capacitor-based Activity Sensing for Kinetic Energy Harvesting Powered Wearable Devices”. In Proceedings of 14th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous), Melbourne, Australia, 2017.11.7-10. (CCF C)
  • [Percom' 2016] Guohao Lan, Weitao Xu, Sara Khalifa, Mahbub Hassan, Wen Hu. "Transportation Mode Detection Using Kinetic Energy Harvesting Wearables". Sydney, Australia, 2016.03.14-03.18 [Best WiP Poster Award]. (CCF B)