Prospects of wireless energy-aware sensors for smart factories in the industry 4.0 era
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In: Electronics (Switzerland), Vol. 10, No. 23, 2929, 26.11.2021.
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T1 - Prospects of wireless energy-aware sensors for smart factories in the industry 4.0 era
AU - Kanoun, Olfa
AU - Khriji, Sabrine
AU - Naifar, Slim
AU - Bradai, Sonia
AU - Bouattour, Ghada
AU - Bouhamed, Ayda
AU - El Houssaini, Dhouha
AU - Viehweger, Christian
N1 - Funding Information: Acknowledgments: Parts of this work have been done within the research training group Nitramon (100339427) funded by the European Union together with the state of Saxony. Funding Information: Funding: The publication of this article was funded by Chemnitz University of Technology. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2021/11/26
Y1 - 2021/11/26
N2 - Advanced sensors are becoming essential for modern factories, as they contribute by gathering comprehensive data about machines, processes, and human-machine interaction. They play an important role in improving manufacturing performance, in-factory logistics, predictive maintenance, supply chains, and digitalization in general. Wireless sensors and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide, in this context, significant advantages as they are flexible and easily deployable. They have reduced installation and maintenance costs and contributed by reducing cables and preinstalled infrastructure, leading to improved reliability. WSNs can be retrofitted in machines to provide direct information from inside the processes. Recent developments have revealed exciting possibilities to enhance energy harvesting (EH) and wireless energy transmission, enabling a reliable use of wireless sensors in smart factories. This review provides an overview of the potential of energy aware WSNs for industrial applications and shows relevant techniques for realizing a sustainable energy supply based on energy harvesting and energy transfer. The focus is on high-performance converter solutions and improvement of frequency, bandwidth, hybridization of the converters, and the newest trends towards flexible converters. We report on possibilities to reduce the energy consumption in wireless communication on the node level and on the network level, enabling boosting network efficiency and operability. Based on the existing technologies, energy aware WSNs can nowadays be realized for many applications in smart factories. It can be expected that they will play a great role in the future as an enabler for digitalization in this decisive economic sector.
AB - Advanced sensors are becoming essential for modern factories, as they contribute by gathering comprehensive data about machines, processes, and human-machine interaction. They play an important role in improving manufacturing performance, in-factory logistics, predictive maintenance, supply chains, and digitalization in general. Wireless sensors and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide, in this context, significant advantages as they are flexible and easily deployable. They have reduced installation and maintenance costs and contributed by reducing cables and preinstalled infrastructure, leading to improved reliability. WSNs can be retrofitted in machines to provide direct information from inside the processes. Recent developments have revealed exciting possibilities to enhance energy harvesting (EH) and wireless energy transmission, enabling a reliable use of wireless sensors in smart factories. This review provides an overview of the potential of energy aware WSNs for industrial applications and shows relevant techniques for realizing a sustainable energy supply based on energy harvesting and energy transfer. The focus is on high-performance converter solutions and improvement of frequency, bandwidth, hybridization of the converters, and the newest trends towards flexible converters. We report on possibilities to reduce the energy consumption in wireless communication on the node level and on the network level, enabling boosting network efficiency and operability. Based on the existing technologies, energy aware WSNs can nowadays be realized for many applications in smart factories. It can be expected that they will play a great role in the future as an enabler for digitalization in this decisive economic sector.
KW - Energy harvesting
KW - Energy saving
KW - Vibration converters
KW - Wireless communication
KW - Wireless power transfer
KW - WSN
KW - Engineering
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U2 - 10.3390/electronics10232929
DO - 10.3390/electronics10232929
M3 - Scientific review articles
AN - SCOPUS:85119900405
VL - 10
JO - Electronics (Switzerland)
JF - Electronics (Switzerland)
SN - 2079-9292
IS - 23
M1 - 2929
ER -