Energy Harvesting Trends for Low Power Compact Electronic Devices

本書專注於各種能量收集技術及其系統實現，以滿足緊湊電子設備的能量需求。這些技術涵蓋了便攜設備、生物醫療服務、農業需求、機械系統、感測器網絡、汽車、食品行業、家用電器、工業需求等廣泛的應用。作者詳細介紹了使用最新技術的能量收集方法，包括聲學、生化、熱能、人工光、流體流動、振動、電磁能、射頻能、壓電、靜電、光伏、熱電、混合收集、超聲波、紅外線、光、風和太陽能。本書旨在為從事能量收集的研究人員、學者、專業人士和學生提供參考。

Dr. N. Anveshkumar pursued his M.Tech in 2014 and Ph.D degrees in 2019 from ECE, VNIT, Nagpur, India and has 3 years of Teaching and Research experience. He has published his research and review papers in 19 International/National Journals, 13 International/National conferences. Currently, he is working as an assistant professor in ECE, VIT Bhopal University, Bhopal, MP, India. He was one of the Editors for a text book on "Advances in THz technology and its applications" published by Springer in 2021, ISBN 978-981-16-5731-3. His research interests include Antennas, RF circuits and wireless communications. Currently, he is working in the area of high directional UWB antennas, energy harvesting, reconfigurable antennas, cognitive radio antennas, THz and Mobile antennas.

Dr. Anirban Bhowmick completed his Ph.D in 2018 from Birla Institute of Mesra, Ranchi in the field of speech processing. He worked as a postdoc fellow in IISc Bangalore for 1 and half years. He has published more than 20 papers in international journals. He has almost 7 years of teaching experience and his research interest is in the field of signal and image processing, communication and related fields.

Dr. Chandan Kumar is a Doctorate from the School of Biomedical Engg. IIT(BHU), Varanasi. He completed his M.Tech from NIT-Rourkela and B.Tech from ITM University in Electronics & Instrumentation. He has over two years of teaching experience at university level. He has publications in renowned International journals published by Wiley, Elsevier, ACS and RSC with three patents filed till date. His primary area of specialization is 'Energy harvesting achieved through material synthesis and signal conditioning involving effective electronics circuitry to achieve effective electromechanical coupling'. His research interests include Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting, MEMS and flexible electronics.

Dr. R. Maheswar has completed his B.E (ECE) from Madras University in the year 1999, M.E (Applied Electronics) from Bharathiyar University in the year 2002 and Ph.D in the field of Wireless Sensor Network from Anna University in the year 2012. He has about 21 years of teaching experience at various levels and presently holding the responsibility as Director In-Charge in the Centre for Research and Development, Head - Centre for IoT and AI (CITI) as well as Professor in the Department of ECE, KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India. Prior to KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, he was associated as Dean In-Charge - Research and Dean - School of EEE at VIT Bhopal University for 3 years. His research interest includes Wireless Sensor Network, IoT, Queueing theory and Performance Evaluation. He has also been recognized as a visiting researcher at University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. He has involved as a project investigator in the India-Iran Inter-Governmental Programme of Cooperation in Science and Technology, a bilateral project sponsored byDST and received grants around 20 Lakhs from various Government funding agencies. He has produced 6 Ph.D scholars and presently supervising 2 Ph.D scholars. He has published around 84 papers at International Journals and Conferences and also published 4 patents in the field of Sensors & IoT. He is presently an Associate Editor in Alexandria Engineering Journal (Q1), Elsevier, Wireless Networks Journal (Q2), Springer, IET Electronics Letters (Q3) and Ad-hoc Sensor Wireless Networks Journal (Q4), Old City Publishing. He has served as guest editor for Wireless Networks Journal - Springer, WCMC - Hindawi, IJAHUC - Inderscience, MDPI - Energies and completed 4 special issues as Lead Guest Editor. He has also been serving as a review board member for peer reviewed journals. He has authored a book titled, "Received Signal Strength Based Target Localization and Tracking Using Wireless Sensor Networks", EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing (ESICC), a scopus indexed Springerbook series and also edited 7 books supported by ESICC Springer book series and Wiley. He has acted as an Advisory Committee and Review Committee Member for various International Conferences including ICAN 2022 / SIET 2022 / ICICES 2021 / ICAN 2021 / ICAN 2020 / ICIEEE 2019. He has delivered numerous expert talks on "Wireless Sensor Networks" and various research talks on "Networking and Collaborative Research" at reputed institutions. He has received the "Best Faculty Award" consecutively for two years from Sri Krishna College of Technology, Coimbatore and also a lifetime member of ISTE.

N. Anveshkumar 博士於 2014 年獲得 M.Tech 學位，2019 年獲得 Ph.D 學位，均來自印度那格浦爾的 VNIT 電子與通訊工程系，並擁有 3 年的教學和研究經驗。他在 19 本國際/國內期刊和 13 場國際/國內會議上發表了研究和綜述論文。目前，他在印度博帕爾的 VIT 博帕爾大學電子與通訊工程系擔任助理教授。他曾擔任 2021 年由 Springer 出版的《THz 技術及其應用進展》一書的編輯之一，ISBN 978-981-16-5731-3。他的研究興趣包括天線、射頻電路和無線通信。目前，他的研究領域包括高方向性 UWB 天線、能量收集、可重構天線、認知無線天線、THz 和移動天線。

Anirban Bhowmick 博士於 2018 年在印度朗齊的比爾拉科技學院獲得語音處理領域的 Ph.D。他在印度科學研究所（IISc）班加羅爾擔任博士後研究員一年半。他在國際期刊上發表了超過 20 篇論文，擁有近 7 年的教學經驗，研究興趣集中在信號和影像處理、通信及相關領域。

Chandan Kumar 博士是印度瓦拉納西 IIT(BHU) 生物醫學工程學院的博士。他在 NIT-Rourkela 獲得 M.Tech 學位，並在 ITM 大學獲得電子與儀器工程的 B.Tech 學位。他在大學層面擁有超過兩年的教學經驗。他在 Wiley、Elsevier、ACS 和 RSC 等知名國際期刊上發表了多篇論文，並已申請三項專利。他的主要專業領域是「通過材料合成和信號調理實現的能量收集，涉及有效的電子電路以實現有效的機電耦合」。他的研究興趣包括壓電能量收集、MEMS 和柔性電子學。

R. Maheswar 博士於 1999 年在馬德拉斯大學獲得電子與通訊工程的 B.E，於 2002 年在巴拉特雅爾大學獲得應用電子學的 M.E，並於 2012 年在安娜大學獲得無線傳感器網絡領域的 Ph.D。他擁有約 21 年的教學經驗，目前擔任印度 Coimbatore KPR 工程技術學院的研究與發展中心主任、物聯網與人工智慧中心負責人以及電子與通訊工程系教授。在 KPR 工程技術學院之前，他在 VIT 博帕爾大學擔任研究負責人和電子與電氣工程學院院長三年。他的研究興趣包括無線傳感器網絡、物聯網、排隊理論和性能評估。他還被認可為捷克共和國哈雷茨克拉洛維大學的訪問研究員。他參與了印度-伊朗政府間科學與技術合作計劃，這是一個由 DST 贊助的雙邊項目，並從各政府資助機構獲得約 20 萬盧比的資助。他培養了 6 名博士生，目前正在指導 2 名博士生。他在國際期刊和會議上發表了約 84 篇論文，並在傳感器和物聯網領域發表了 4 項專利。他目前擔任《Alexandria Engineering Journal》（Q1）、《Wireless Networks Journal》（Q2）、《IET Electronics Letters》（Q3）和《Ad-hoc Sensor Wireless Networks Journal》（Q4）的副編輯。他曾擔任《Wireless Networks Journal - Springer》、《WCMC - Hindawi》、《IJAHUC - Inderscience》、《MDPI - Energies》的客座編輯，並作為主客座編輯完成了 4 個特刊。他還擔任同行評審期刊的審稿委員會成員。他著有一本名為《基於接收信號強度的目標定位與追蹤使用無線傳感器網絡》的書，該書由 EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing (ESICC) 出版，並被 Scopus 索引。