Development of Energy Management Unit for Hydropower Storage of Harvesting System in Wireless Sensor Networks

One of the basic sources of life in earth is water and as the population of humans living in it increases, water consumption and contamination also increases. Thus, the researchers aim to develop a sensor platform that monitors the quality and contamination of water bodies. There are commercially available sensor platforms that has sensor nodes which transmit data it gathered wirelessly to a base station and are battery-driven. However, due to lack of recharging capability of batteries, the life of sensor platforms is shortened, and the replacement of these batteries became a burden. Hence, this research aims to develop and implement an energy management unit of a harvesting system in a sensor platform through a 90nm process technology in order to eliminate the burden of replacing the batteries and extend the sensor platform's life by efficiently managing the energy sources given by the environment and the battery.