Energy Harvesting Unit Design for Body Area Networks

Abstract

Body Area Networks has taken its place in today's scientific world as a fundamental part of the issues of remote health monitoring and Internet of Things. The signals measured by the sensor nodes in or around the body are transmited the information about the health of the individual to the experts in remote. Body Area Networks have problems similar to other types of networks, and energy consumption is one of the main problems. Body Area Networks generally involve wireless communication and require the energy units (batteries, acumulator, and etc.) to measure of nodes while the person is on the move. For this reason, it is not possible to change the energy unit at any time. In order to eliminate the energy problem of the Body Area Network, the energy harvesting unit is developed in this study. This unit consisting of piezoelectric material and peltier meets the energy needs of the Body Area Network.

Keywords

• body area networks,energy harvesting,data communications

Vücut Alan Ağları için Enerji Hasadı Ünitesi Tasarımı

Abstract

Vücut Alan Ağları, uzaktan sağlık izleme ve nesnelerin interneti konularının temel bir parçası olarak günümüz bilim dünyasında yerini almıştır. Vücut üzerinde, çevresinde ya da içinde yeralabilen algılayıcı düğümlerin ölçtüğü sinyaller bu ağa sahip bireylerin sağlığı hakkında bilgileri aktarmaktadır. Vücut Alan Ağları’nın diğer ağ tiplerine benzer problemleri bulunmaktadır ve bu problemlerin başında enerji tüketimi gelmektedir. Vücut Alan Ağları genellikle kablosuz iletişim yapmakta ve kişinin hareket halindeyken de düğümlerin ölçüm yapması için enerji birimlerine (pil, akü vb.) ihtiyaç duymaktadır. Bu sebeple enerji ünitesinin her zaman değiştirilebilmesi mümkün olmamaktadır. Bu çalışmada Vücut Alan Ağı’nın enerji problemini ortadan kaldırmak için enerji hasadı ünitesi geliştirilmiştir. Piezoelektrik malzeme ve peltierden oluşan bu ünite Vücut Alan Ağı’nın enerji ihtiyacını karşılamaktadır.

Keywords

• vücut alan ağları,enerji hasadı,veri haberleşmesi

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