This chapter presents state-of-the-art and major developments in wireless power transfer using solar energy. The brief state-of-the-art is presented for solar photovoltaic technologies which can be combined with wireless power transfer (WPT) to interact with the ambient...

Maritime journeys significantly depend on weather conditions, and so meteorology has always had a key role in maritime businesses. Nowadays, the new era of innovative machine learning approaches along with the availability of a wide range of sensors and microcontrollers...

Abstract This study focuses on the assessment of systematic biases in wave climate simulations, exploring different bias correction methods commonly used for climate impact variables (e.g. precipitation, temperature), and on the analysis of bias corrected wave climate p...

s efficiency). The presented platform is able to efficiently power a low power IoT system with processing, sensing and wireless transmission potentials. It incorporates a cutting-edge energy management IC that enables exceptional energy harvesting, applicable on low pow...

We present a flexible framework for uncertainty principles in spectral graph theory. In this framework, general filter functions modeling the spatial and spectral localization of a graph signal can be incorporated. It merges several existing uncertainty relations on gra...

The use of maker community tools and IoT technologies inside classrooms is spreading in an increasing number of education and science fields. GAIA is a European research project focused on achieving behavior change for sustainability and energy awareness in schools. In ...

s history and culture, actively contribute to the national economy, offering a foundation upon which cultural tourism can develop. This importance at the cultural and economic level, advocates for the need for preservation of cultural heritage sites for the future gener...

Current technical, social, economic and environmental trends impose the optimization of power grid and energy management via the digitalization and Smart Grid (SG) development. The SG incorporates advanced communications and pervasive computing capabilities ensuring imp...

Wireless power transfer (WPT) is an emerging technology that is used in ad hoc networks of battery-powered devices, to deliver energy and keep the network functional. Existing state-of-the-art studies have mainly focused on applying this technology, but the potential ri...

This letter presents the design and characterization results of a multi-octave power amplifier (MOPA) fabricated in a 0.13- $\mu \text{m}$ SiGe-BiCMOS technology. The single-stage power amplifier is implemented as the stack of a cascode amplifier combining broadband inp...