UCLA Energy Scavenging Project

In this project they are trying to make extremely efficient energy harvesting. It means that they are trying to schedule energy harvesting such that the energy be used directly after harvesting and not to be stored in a battery and this is because storing in the battery adds the loss of battery storage and hence decreases efficiency.
It explains a method for efficient energy harvesting in practical distributed sensor networks and compares it with the optimum method which is not distributed and shows that the difference is not very much. There has been some publications based on this project but this project has been done on 2005 and 2006.