A self-organizing efficient power generation system in extreme condition for Waggle

To deploy a novel wireless sensor platform in non-urban area, great consideration must be taken on its powering system. This paper describes an autonomous power generation system in extreme weather such as winter cold, summer heat, and other natural events. The system was designed to apply to the Waggle Stack. The Waggle platform, a research project from Argonne National Laboratory is one of the most practical autonomous nodes allowing for the collection of environmental data in an urban area. Previous work on Waggle’s power system stopped at a limitation of 3.17 hours of operation when all modules were on. Our power system lasted for 8 hours which is 2.5 times as long as the previous one. This paper examines the power system to provide continuous power and remain operational 24 x 7 x 365, regardless of the environmental conditions.By measuring the system’s performance through state-of-charge checking of the battery in this project, we tested the improved structure of the power system.