Energy Storage Options for Environment Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks in Rural Africa

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2012Author
Byamukama, Maximus
Akol, Roseline
Bakkabulindi, Geofrey
Pehrson, Björn
Olsson, Robert
Sansa-Otim, Julianne
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This paper explores various traditional and
emerging battery technologies available for deployments
of automated environment monitoring devices using
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in Africa and the
considerations designers must take into account when
implementing these systems.
Environment-monitoring applications of WSNs are
focusing more on reducing power consumption and
optimizing data transmission and less on the constraints
that their applications and deployment environments put
on the energy storage device.
We describe the various properties of energy storage
devices and, for each, we highlight the requirements to be
met for environment monitoring applications, especially in
remote areas in Africa. We evaluate the performance of
some of these energy storage options against the
requirements using three use cases. We indicate the
technologies that have shown reliability for each use case.
We show that emerging battery technologies, such as
Lithium Ion Capacitors are well suited for long-life low
power deployments while the options for high-power
deployments depend on the constraints faced by the
designers, such as the power consumption of the sensor
network components sand environment temperature
range of the deployment environment.
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