Integrated Power Management for Energy Harvesters in Aircraft

So far energy harvesting techniques in aircraft have been proposed in isolation. In this paper we propose a novel Markov chain based integrated approach for energy harvesting in aircraft. The experimental results based on simulation results have shown that integrating Piezoelectric and Thermoelectric harvesters performs better in terms of packet loss probability than individual Thermoelectric and Piezoelectric harvesters in isolation over wireless sensor networks.