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Therefore, minimization of energy consumption and energy harvesting technology in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are key tools for maximizing network lifetime, and achieving self-sustainability. This paper proposes an energy aware Adaptive Sampling Algorithm (ASA) for WSN with power hungry sensors and harvesting capabilities, an energy management technique that can be implemented on any WSN platform with enough processing power to execute the proposed algorithm. An existing state-of-the-art ASA developed for wireless sensor networks with power hungry sensors is optimized and enhanced to adapt the sampling frequency according to the available energy of the node. The proposed algorithm is evaluated using two in-field testbeds that are supplied by two different energy harvesting sources (solar and wind). Simulation and comparison between the state-of-the-art ASA and the proposed energy aware ASA (EASA) in terms of energy durability are carried out using in-field measured harvested energy (using both wind and solar sources) and power hungry sensors (ultrasonic wind sensor and gas sensors). The simulation results demonstrate that using ASA in combination with an energy aware function on the nodes can drastically increase the lifetime of a WSN node and enable self-sustainability. In fact, the proposed EASA in conjunction with energy harvesting capability can lead towards perpetual WSN operation and significantly outperform the state-of-the-art ASA.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s16040448","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,29]],"date-time":"2016-03-29T16:00:28Z","timestamp":1459267228000},"page":"448","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":57,"title":["An Energy Aware Adaptive Sampling Algorithm for Energy Harvesting WSN with Energy Hungry Sensors"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Bruno","family":"Srbinovski","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Cork, College Road, Cork T12 YN60, Ireland"},{"name":"MaRine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI), Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, College Road, Cork T12 YN60, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Michele","family":"Magno","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich, Z\u00fcrich 8092, Switzerland"},{"name":"Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering (DEI), University of Bologna, Bologna 40126, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fiona","family":"Edwards-Murphy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Cork, College Road, Cork T12 YN60, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Vikram","family":"Pakrashi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"MaRine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI), Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, College Road, Cork T12 YN60, Ireland"},{"name":"Dynamical Systems and Risk Laboratory, School of Engineering, University College Cork, College Road, Cork T12 YN60, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Emanuel","family":"Popovici","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Cork, College Road, Cork T12 YN60, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"74","DOI":"10.1109\/MCE.2014.2361266","article-title":"A Moore\u2019s Law for Mobile Energy: Improving upon conventional batteries and energy sources for mobile devices","volume":"4","author":"Coughlin","year":"2015","journal-title":"Consum. 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