Publications by Roberto La Rosa

High-Efficiency Reconfigurable CMOS RF-to-DC Converter System for Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Sensor Nodes with Efficient MPPT Circuitry

Sandro Carrara, Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

This paper presents a novel CMOS RF-to-DC converter for ultra-low-power wireless sensor nodes powered by RF wireless power transfer. The proposed converter achieves 10% higher power conversion efficiency than a conventional rectifier, with only a 1% increa ...

2024

A Battery-Free Wireless Smart Sensor platform with Bluetooth Low Energy Connectivity for Smart Agriculture

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

Smart agriculture systems, which integrate sensors and data analysis into agricultural production processes, are increasingly proving an effective solution for reducing food production waste, yield production increase, and product quality improvement. In t ...

IEEE2022

Strategies, Techniques and Systems for powering low-maintenance and battery-free devices through Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

Roberto La Rosa

The purpose of this research has a background in the market for Internet of Things (IoT)devices and wireless sensor networks. The Market Forecast predicts the connection of a trillion"things" by 2025. The global smart sensor market size trend grows from US ...

EPFL2022

A smart battery free system for wireless condition monitoring using piezoelectric energy harvester

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

A machine failure is often characterized by a sudden increase in the vibration acceleration level. We propose a wireless and battery-free vibration sensor and a method for condition monitoring and predictive maintenance of vibrating objects such as machine ...

IEEE2022

An energy autonomous and battery-free measurement system for ambient light power with time domain readout

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

Internet of Things (IoT) provides more and more adequate infrastructures for many applications and advanced services. This context promotes the ability to satisfy the growing demand for innovative measuring systems, increasingly popular with intelligent no ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

A Self-powered Ambient Light Power Measurement Platform with Time-domain Readout

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

Internet of Things (IoT) provides more and more adequate infrastructures for many applications and advanced services. This scenario promotes the ability to satisfy the growing demand for innovative measuring systems, increasingly popular consisting of inte ...

IEEE2021

An Energy-Autonomous Wireless Sensor With Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Ambient Light Sensing

Andreas Peter Burg, Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

Wireless sensor nodes (WSNs) are generally powered by batteries, which results in a substantial limitation to the places where the nodes can be installed, to the maximum number of deployable devices, and to the node lifetime. To meet the demand for Interne ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Advanced Monitoring Systems Based on Battery-Less Asset Tracking Modules Energized through RF Wireless Power Transfer

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

Asset tracking involving accurate location and transportation data is highly suited to wireless sensor networks (WSNs) featuring battery-less nodes that can be deployed in virtually any environment and require little or no maintenance. In response to the g ...

2020

Speed detection of battery-free nodes based on RF Wireless Power Transfer

Catherine Dehollain, Roberto La Rosa

In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are rapidly increasing in terms of relevance and pervasiveness thanks to their notable real-time monitoring performance across several fields, including industrial, domestic, military, bi ...

IEEE2020

Advanced Techniques for Powering Wireless Sensor Nodes through Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

Roberto La Rosa

This paper presents three different techniques for efficiently powering an energy-autonomous wireless sensor (EAWS) through both energy harvesting (EH) and RF wireless power transfer (WPT). The aim of the paper is to provide effective strategies and techni ...

IEEE2020