Title: Ultra-low power systems for long running IoT applications
Abstract: SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son stated that “In the next 20 years, we will see 1 trillion Internet of Things devices”. Many of these will be in homes, offices and cities where power supply is available, however, for many of these devices, remote operation is more desirable. Energy harvesting enables long-term operation of sensor devices as part of the IoT, but combination with batteries still has a number of shortfalls. I am currently in my 10th month of study, and I will give this short presentation in the hope of explaining how remote sensing systems can operate directly from energy harvesting through “transient computing”, the improvements I have proposed to the existing approaches, and my intentions for further research as the PhD progresses.