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Julien Penders


Julien Penders is Program Manager at Holst Centre/Imec, where he leads the activities on System Integration and Body Area Networks. He holds a MSc degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Liege, Belgium, and a MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University, MA.


Article
The Potential and Challenges of Wireless Sensor Nodes for Diverse Application Fields   December 1, 2009
By: Julien Penders,Mihai Patrascu,Ruud Vullers

Autonomous wireless sensor networks—WSNs powered by energy harvesting—have tremendous potential. By examining their possible use in healthcare, condition monitoring, and smart packaging we assess this enabling technology and discuss the challenges to further adoption.