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The repeated maintenance cost of battery replacement for wireless sensors can be a drawback. Technologies under development can harvest milliwatts of power from sources including solar, vibration, thermal, and radio frequency (RF) waves. To what extent will energy harvesting technologies eventually replace batteries?
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