Estimating Harvestable Solar Energy from Atmospheric Pressure Using Support Vector Regression

Energy neutrality is the desired mode of operation of many sensor networks used for environmental monitoring. Intelligent energy harvesting networks, composed of nodes equipped with solar panels and other types of power-scavenging devices, can plan and manage their operations according to short and long-term predictions of ambient energy availability. This paper introduces a novel method for next-day solar energy prediction based on atmospheric...