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An Environmental Energy Harvesting Framework for Sensor Networks Aman Kansal and Mani B Srivastava Department of Electrical Engineering University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, USA (kansal,mbs)@ ABSTRACT tenance. Energy supply is a major design constraint in these sys- Energy constrained systems such as sensor networks can increase tems and the lifetime is limited by battery supplies. The size of their usable lifetimes by extracting energy from their environment. the battery exceeds most other system components in many sensor nodes [12, 14]. One way to alleviate this problem is to provide the However, environmental energy will typically not be spread homo- geneously over the spread of the network. We argue that significant network with capabilities to automatically feed itself from its envi- improvements in usable system lifetime can be achieved if the task ronment, which opens up the possibility of achieving significantly allocation is aligned with the spatio-temporal characteristics of en- longer lifetimes and reducing the battery size. ergy availability. To the best of our knowledge, this problem has Mechanisms exist for compact devices to extract energy from not been addressed before. We present a distributed framework for the environment, such as solar power, microbial fuel cells [9], vi-