Integrated Energy Harvesting System

Energy harvesting from ambient has become a major area of research. Radio Frequency energy harvesting is one of the most efficient ways in which energy can be harvested from otherwise wasted ambient sources like the Cell phone towers, Radars, Wi-Fi Routers, TV broadcasting stations and even from the nature around us. In this book we present the design and implementation of a hybrid energy harvesting system. Here we have discussed methods to harness energy from three alternate energy sources, which are solar energy, radio frequency energy and piezoelectric energy. Both software analysis and hardware implementation methods have been discussed in details The book is useful for undergraduate engineering students and also graduate students, faculty and hobbyist who want to learn techniques for energy harvesting from ambient radio frequencies and designing antenna and RF circuits.