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Article

Plant Microbial Fuel Cells–Based Energy Harvester System for Self-powered IoT Applications

by
Edith Osorio de la Rosa
1,
Javier Vázquez Castillo
2,*,
Mario Carmona Campos
2,
Gliserio Romeli Barbosa Pool
2,
Guillermo Becerra Nuñez
1,
Alejandro Castillo Atoche
3 and
Jaime Ortegón Aguilar
2
1
CONACYT, Deparment of Engineering, University of Quintana Roo, Chetumal Q. Roo 77019, Mexico
2
Deparment of Engineering, University of Quintana Roo, Chetumal Q. Roo 77019, Mexico
3
Faculty of Engineering, Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mérida Yucatán 97000, Mexico
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sensors 2019, 19(6), 1378; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19061378
Submission received: 12 February 2019 / Revised: 8 March 2019 / Accepted: 11 March 2019 / Published: 20 March 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Harvesting Sensor Systems)
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Abstract

The emergence of modern technologies, such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the Internet-of-Things (IoT), and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, involves the use of batteries, which pose a serious environmental risk, with billions of batteries disposed of every year. However, the combination of sensors and wireless communication devices is extremely power-hungry. Energy Harvesting (EH) is fundamental in enabling the use of low-power electronic devices that derive their energy from external sources, such as Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC), solar power, thermal and kinetic energy, among others. Plant Microbial Fuel Cell (PMFC) is a prominent clean energy source and a step towards the development of self-powered systems in indoor and outdoor environments. One of the main challenges with PMFCs is the dynamic power supply, dynamic charging rates and low-energy supply. In this paper, a PMFC-based energy harvester system is proposed for the implementation of autonomous self-powered sensor nodes with IoT and cloud-based service communication protocols. The PMFC design is specifically adapted with the proposed EH circuit for the implementation of IoT-WSN based applications. The PMFC-EH system has a maximum power point at 0.71 V, a current density of 5 mA cm − 2 , and a power density of 3.5 mW cm − 2 with a single plant. Considering a sensor node with a current consumption of 0.35 mA, the PMFC-EH green energy system allows a power autonomy for real-time data processing of IoT-based low-power WSN systems.
Keywords: energy harvesting; internet of things (IoT); plant microbial fuel cell (PMFC); self-powered systems; wireless sensor network energy harvesting; internet of things (IoT); plant microbial fuel cell (PMFC); self-powered systems; wireless sensor network

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Osorio de la Rosa, E.; Vázquez Castillo, J.; Carmona Campos, M.; Barbosa Pool, G.R.; Becerra Nuñez, G.; Castillo Atoche, A.; Ortegón Aguilar, J. Plant Microbial Fuel Cells–Based Energy Harvester System for Self-powered IoT Applications. Sensors 2019, 19, 1378. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19061378

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Osorio de la Rosa E, Vázquez Castillo J, Carmona Campos M, Barbosa Pool GR, Becerra Nuñez G, Castillo Atoche A, Ortegón Aguilar J. Plant Microbial Fuel Cells–Based Energy Harvester System for Self-powered IoT Applications. Sensors. 2019; 19(6):1378. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19061378

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Osorio de la Rosa, Edith, Javier Vázquez Castillo, Mario Carmona Campos, Gliserio Romeli Barbosa Pool, Guillermo Becerra Nuñez, Alejandro Castillo Atoche, and Jaime Ortegón Aguilar. 2019. "Plant Microbial Fuel Cells–Based Energy Harvester System for Self-powered IoT Applications" Sensors 19, no. 6: 1378. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19061378

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Osorio de la Rosa, E., Vázquez Castillo, J., Carmona Campos, M., Barbosa Pool, G. R., Becerra Nuñez, G., Castillo Atoche, A., & Ortegón Aguilar, J. (2019). Plant Microbial Fuel Cells–Based Energy Harvester System for Self-powered IoT Applications. Sensors, 19(6), 1378. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19061378

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