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The energy efficiency of systems in general determines its operational sustainability. Harvesting energy is a crucial technology for a variety of wireless systems that have limited access to a reliable electricity supply or recharging sources. As such, these devices need to harvest electricity from alternative sources such as the natural environment or wireless signals. A variety of wireless systems and devices fit this profile, from relatively power-hungry macro-base stations deployed in remote regions, to nano-scale sensors in vivo environments. The wide range of devices transverse multiple length scales and communicate across distance scales that vary by 9 orders of magnitude (from km to microns). It remains unclear what set of energy harvesting technologies are suitable. This chapter will review state-of-the-art technologies that allow multi-scale wireless devices to simultaneous harvest energy and transmit data.

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    In urban areas, the deployment density of Wi-Fi APs has grown over the past decade to 400–1000 APs per square km.

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    Weisi Guo

  2. Kings College London, London, UK

    Yansha Deng & Arumugam Nallanathan

  3. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing Shi, China

    Bin Li & Chenglin Zhao

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Guo, W., Deng, Y., Nallanathan, A., Li, B., Zhao, C. (2018). Multi-Scale Energy Harvesting. In: Jayakody, D., Thompson, J., Chatzinotas, S., Durrani, S. (eds) Wireless Information and Power Transfer: A New Paradigm for Green Communications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56669-6_6

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