IEEE Microwave Magazine - September/October 2018 - 32

COV ER FE ATURE

Zero-Power
Sensors for
Smart Objects
John Kimionis, Wenjing Su,
Jimmy Hester, Jo Bito,
Xuanke He, Tong-Hong Lin,
and Manos M. Tentzeris

W

ireless sensors are pervasive today for applications
spanning environmental
sensing, safety, health, structural integrity, smart homes,
and smart cities. Implementations of wireless
sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoT)
systems have typically relied on power supplied
by batteries, which have a limited lifetime and
pose the increased burden on users of replacing
or manually recharging them to keep devices up
and running.
The process of turning things and devices into
"smart" objects (e.g., equipping garments with wearable electronics or mounting gas sensors on signs or
lamps in a building) has been the subject of considerable
research for many years, but powering those smart objects
has always been a bottleneck for scalability. New "zero-power"
sensor architectures are needed to network massive numbers of
objects and move closer to the principles of the IoT.
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John Kimionis (ioannis.kimionis@nokia-bell-labs.com) is with Nokia-Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States.
Wenjing Su (wenjing.su.gatech@gmail.com) is with Google Research, Mountain View, California, United States. Jo Bito (jbito3@gatech.edu) is
with Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas, United States. Jimmy Hester (jimmy.hester@gatech.edu), Xuanke He (xhe53@gatech.edu), Tong-Hong Lin
(thlin@gatech.edu), and Manos M. Tentzeris (etentze@ece.gatech.edu) are with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MMM.2018.2844031
Date of publication: 7 August 2018

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