• Article  

      Efficiency study of a commercial thermoelectric power generator (TEG) under thermal cycling 

      Hatzikraniotis, E.; Zorbas, K. T.; Samaras, I.; Kyratsi, Theodora; Paraskevopoulos, K. M. (2010)
      Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) make use of the Seebeck effect in semiconductors for the direct conversion of heat to electrical energy. The possible use of a device consisting of numerous TEG modules for waste heat ...
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      Genetic algorithms for shortest path routing of autonomous gliders 

      Kahveci, N. E.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2008)
      Onboard power resources pose inevitable limitations on the flight performance of any aerial vehicle regardless of its type, size or mission. Popular soaring techniques recognized to be providing significant energy savings ...
    • Article  

      Power efficiency through tuple ranking in wireless sensor network monitoring 

      Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S. (2011)
      In this paper, we present an innovative framework for efficiently monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Our framework, coined KSpot, utilizes a novel top-k query processing algorithm we developed, in conjunction with ...