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This paper proposes a new approach to defining the specifications of a stand-alone wireless node based on a Radio-frequency Energy Harvesting System (REHS). To achieve adequate performance regarding the range of the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), techniques for minimizing the energy consumed by the sensor node are combined with methods for optimizing the performance of the REHS. For more rigor in the design of the autonomous node, a comprehensive energy model of the node in a wireless network is established. For an equitable distribution of network charges between the different nodes that compose it, the Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) protocol is used for this purpose. The model considers five energy-consumption sources, most of which are ignored in recently used models. By using the hardware parameters of commercial off-the-shelf components (Mica2 Motes and CC2520 of Texas Instruments), the energy requirement of a sensor node is quantified. A miniature REHS based on a judicious choice of rectifying diodes is then designed and developed to achieve optimal performance in the Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) band centralized at     2.45   GHz    . Due to the mismatch between the REHS and the antenna, a band pass filter is designed to reduce reflection losses. A gradient method search is used to optimize the output characteristics of the adapted REHS. At     1   mW     of input RF power, the REHS provides an output DC power of     0.57   mW     and a comparison with the energy requirement of the node allows the Base Station (BS) to be located at     310   m     from the wireless nodes when the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has     100     nodes evenly spread over an area of     300   \u00d7   300    m 2      and when each round lasts     10   min    . The result shows that the range of the autonomous WSN increases when the controlled physical phenomenon varies very slowly. Having taken into account all the dissipation sources coexisting in a sensor node and using actual measurements of an REHS, this work provides the guidelines for the design of autonomous nodes based on REHS.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18010133","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,1,8]],"date-time":"2018-01-08T04:21:21Z","timestamp":1515385281000},"page":"133","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["A New Approach to Design Autonomous Wireless Sensor Node Based on RF Energy Harvesting System"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5587-6681","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alex","family":"Mouapi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Underground Communication Research Laboratory, University of Qu\u00e9bec in Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue, 675, 1e avenue, Val-d\u2019Or, QC J9P1Y3, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nadir","family":"Hakem","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Underground Communication Research Laboratory, University of Qu\u00e9bec in Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue, 675, 1e avenue, Val-d\u2019Or, QC J9P1Y3, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,1,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Correa, A., Boquet, G., Morell, A., and Lopez Vicario, J. 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