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The Internet of Things (IoT) concept is changing the world by connecting a massive number of electronics devices to the internet. Due to the large number of connected devices, some challenges and opportunities were created from the hardware development to the cloud computing. The energy constrained IoT devices, such as the energy harvesting or small battery powered, have the lifetime significantly affected by the higher power consumption at the wireless communication, performed by the RF transceiver. Thus, the transmitter and receiver hardware optimization together to the relaxed communication standard requirements have an important impact to the device lifetime increasing. Nowadays, a complete 2.4 GHz receiver can have power consumption as low as 0.5 mW or smaller, when powered with reduced voltage level sources.

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Severo, L.C., Van Noije, W.M.A. (2022). Introduction. In: Ultra-low Voltage Low Power Active-RC Filters and Amplifiers for Low Energy RF Receivers . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90103-5_1

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