RF Integrated Circuits for Energy Autonomous Sensor Nodes.
dc.contributor.author | Roberts, Nathan E. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-30T20:12:09Z | |
dc.date.available | WITHHELD_12_MONTHS | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2015-01-30T20:12:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.date.submitted | en_US | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/110432 | |
dc.description.abstract | The exponential growth in the semiconductor industry has enabled computers to pervade our everyday lives, and as we move forward many of these computers will have form factors much smaller than a typical laptop or smartphone. Sensor nodes will soon be deployed ubiquitously, capable of capturing information of their surrounding environment. The next step is to connect all these different nodes together into an entire interconnected system. This “Internet of Things” (IoT) vision has incredible potential to change our lives commercially, societally, and personally. The backbone of IoT is the wireless sensor node, many of which will operate under very rigorous energy constraints with small batteries or no batteries at all. It has been shown that in sensor nodes, radio communication is one of the biggest bottlenecks to ultra-low power design. This research explores ways to reduce energy consumption in radios for wireless sensor networks, allowing them to run off harvested energy, while maintaining qualities that will allow them to function in a real world, multi-user environment. Three different prototypes have been designed demonstrating these techniques. The first is a sensitivity-reduced nanowatt wake-up radio which allows a sensor node to actively listen for packets even when the rest of the node is asleep. CDMA codes and interference rejection reduce the potential for energy-costly false wake-ups. The second prototype is a full transceiver for a body-worn EKG sensor node. This transceiver is designed to have low instantaneous power and is able to receive 802.15.6 Wireless Body Area Network compliant packets. It uses asymmetric communication including a wake-up receiver based on the previous design, UWB transmitter and a communication receiver. The communication receiver has 10 physical channels to avoid interference and demodulates coherent packets which is uncommon for low power radios, but dictated by the 802.15.6 standard. The third prototype is a long range transceiver capable of >1km communication range in the 433MHz band and able to interface with an existing commercial radio. A digitally assisted baseband demodulator was designed which enables the ability to perform bit-level as well as packet-level duty cycling which increases the radio's energy efficiency. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits | en_US |
dc.subject | Energy Autonomous Circuits | en_US |
dc.subject | Internet of Things | en_US |
dc.subject | Low Power IC Design | en_US |
dc.subject | Wake-Up Radio | en_US |
dc.subject | Ultra-low Power System on Chip | en_US |
dc.title | RF Integrated Circuits for Energy Autonomous Sensor Nodes. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreename | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Electrical Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantor | University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Wentzloff, David D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Lee, Sanghyun | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Raieszadeh, Mina | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Zhang, Zhengya | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Electrical Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/110432/1/nerobert_1.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's) |
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