Near Zero Power Gas Sensor for Agricultural IoT Applications

ECE Seminar has invited special guest speaker Dr. Hanseup Kim, Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Utah. Join us on Friday, November 1 to learn more about Dr. Kim’s sensor systems research.

Abstract

The deployment of sensor networks into resource-limited settings, such as in a farm, is currently limited due to the lack of effective powering solutions for hundreds of scattered sensors. To 2 mitigate such limitations we demonstrated a near-zero power gas sensor that normally sleeps, consuming <100 pW until awoken by a trigger (target gas molecules) thus ultimately enabling significantly-extended battery-supported lifetime for rare event monitoring in an agriculture application.

About our Speaker

Hanseup Kim earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2003 and 2006, respectively.

From 2006 to 2009, he held a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS), University of Michigan. Since 2009, he has been a USTAR Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

His research interests include the design, fabrication, and testing of MEMS actuators and sensors; technologies and structures for polymer-based bioapplications; micro energy harvesting devices; analog and digital integrated circuits for MEMS; and micropackaging technologies.

Dr. Kim is a recipient of two prestigious awards: 2012 NSF CAREER Award and 2011 DARPA Young Faculty Award. He received both the Best Paper Award and the 1st Place Award in the Design Automation Conference Student Design Contest in 2001 with four other coauthors. He was also a recipient of the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Commercialization of Micro and Nano Systems (COMS 2008) with eight other coauthors.

About our Program

The ECE Seminar is designed to engage students in their discipline. Although many topics are specific to electrical and computer engineering, all campus community members are welcome to attend.

Refreshments are provided by the ECE Department. Join us at 10:30 AM every Wednesday to network and sign in. Out of respect for our speakers, please arrive on time.