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New Power Sources for Wireless Sensor Networks

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to military and commercial use. However, the real potential of sensor networks to help resolve problem or optimise the use of resources, which is particularly important in an environment where  there are increasing concerns over resources such as coal and oil as well as allow remote observation of environmental variables (Akyildiz, 2002). Sensor  networks provide automated control or monitoring and their potential for future use is very high but this is not realised as network sensors are still mostly in large installations.  This is due to the practical difficulties which are present. The need for wireless sensors has been overcome with technological developments, reducing this barrier s to use (Akyildiz, 2002). But,  as wires are reduced, so are the powering options and sensors need to rely on batteries, which, like other batteries need replacing. This increases the chances of failure, increases inconvenience  and human interaction with the system and may defeat the purpose of the network as well as possible increasing risk exposure with protection or military systems.  One solution that may be used, which has been examined is the use of solar power or other renewable forms of power. This is a  form of power that has been explored for many types of power usage and as a renewable source may be seen as a potential solution for the powering of the  nodes in a wireless sensor network, eliminating the need for testing batteries and creating a more reliable system. However, for many main stream applications solar power and renewable forms of  power have been seen as limited, the hypothesis of this paper is that as sensor nodes only need minimal power this will provide a good and realistic source of power