Dear Colleagues,

Battery-operated smart sensing systems are one of the most important technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT). The most challenging issue of IoT, when deployed in the field, is the limited lifetime of battery-operated devices. Energy Harvesting (EH) technology is one of the most promising solutions to overcome the short lifetime of such smart devices. In the last decade, EH has matured as a technology and has found use in many application scenarios, such as smart grids, smart homes and wireless sensor networks. Recently, advances have been made in miniaturizing EH devices to even supply wearable devices by exploiting ambient energy in the form of motion, thermal gradients, light, and electromagnetic radiation. However, harvesting energy from the environment for powering small form factor IoT sensing devices (i.e., unobtrusive or wearable) is more challenging due to strict constraints in terms of size, weight, and cost. For this Special Issue, we welcome high-quality submissions that describe original and unpublished research contributions advancing the frontiers on small form factor energy harvesting technologies, devices, and techniques for smart sensing IoT devices and embedded systems, with particular emphasis on wearable devices.

Dr. Michele Magno
Guest Editor

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• Novel energy harvesting hardware, devices, systems, or techniques
• Applications of energy harvesting systems, with a special emphasis on wearables devices, health monitoring, indoor/outdoor monitoring, and control and the Internet of Things
• Architecture, algorithms, and protocols that improve energy efficiency
• Tools to model, to simulate or to measure power consumption
• Power-aware sensing systems
• Solar, RF, thermal, kinetic energy harvesting
• Self-sustaining wearable devices
• Energy neutral systems and power management
• Low power electronic for energy harvesting system, such as micro watt communication, always on zero power sensing
• Advances in energy storage for pervasive systems, including micro fuel cells
• Alternative power sources for embedded applications, such as novel nuclear, chemical, or biological sources