Wireless sensor networks (wsn), especially those that deal with environmental monitoring which require long periods of unattended operation, are severely limited by the default energy source used; that is battery cells. Based on experiences drawn form real-world deployment of such networks, researchers have come to realise that providing a sustained energy source to the WSN is of outmost importance. Driven by such an incentive and based on ongoing research in the application of WSN to precision irrigation, we present Enviromote; a solar-harvesting, energy-wise upgradeable platform for environmental sensor networks. Design considerations, choices and preliminary results are presented.
['Vasileios Kyriatzis', 'Nicholas S. Samaras', 'Pavlos Stavroulakis', 'Haifa Takruri-Rizk', 'S. Tzortzios']
Enviromote: A New Solar-Harvesting Platform Prototype for Wireless Sensor Networks / Work-in-Progress Report