C3.4 - Improved Energy Efficiency Through Integration of Self- Powered Sensors with Mobile Communication
- Event
- AMA Conferences 2013
2013-05-14 - 2013-05-16
Nürnberg - Band
- Proceedings SENSOR 2013
- Chapter
- C3 - Wireless Sensors I
- Author(s)
- B. Kärcher - Festo AG & Co KG, Esslingen (Germany), G. Scholl - Helmut Schmidt University -University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg (Germany), D. Mintenbeck - HSG-IMIT (Institut für Mikro- und Informationstechnik), Villingen-Schwenningen (Germany)
- Pages
- 391 - 395
- DOI
- 10.5162/sensor2013/C3.4
- ISBN
- 978-3-9813484-3-9
- Price
- free
Abstract
Energy efficiency of production plants is continuously getting more public attention while at the same time, energy is the essential resource for the manufacturing industry to maintain its capacity to act. As a consequence, measurement and monitoring of substantial parameters of the manufacturing process are essential to achieve the goal of an optimized energy consumption. On shop floor level, sensors have to be integrated to provide a representative picture of the manufacturing process. Compared to conventional approaches, wireless and self-powered sensors can be implemented at much lower installation costs. In this paper, a new generation of integrated sensors are introduced, including technologies for energy supply and wireless communication as well as appropriate packaging and integrating technologies. Although first prototypes are realized in the field of pneumatics, electrical and/or further parameters can be measured with the modular concept proposed. Main contributions are derived from the public funded research project “MIKOA”.