{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_substrate_denial72_20260805","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp12_light_screen_20260805","cell_id":"pareto_frontier_navigation__computer_science","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["intermittent computing capacitor size voltage threshold brownout reboot energy harvesting completion","energy harvesting microcontroller cold start threshold capacitor sizing repeated brownout","intermittent systems energy buffer capacitance voltage supervisor hysteresis workload completion"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":"No direct source was found for the complete passive frontier-keyed board that mechanically excludes empirically dominated capacitance-threshold pairings."},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["\"transient computing\" capacitor voltage threshold reboot energy harvesting","\"batteryless\" capacitor turn-on threshold workload completion","\"energy-neutral\" microcontroller capacitor start threshold","\"power failure\" energy harvesting microcontroller capacitor threshold repeated restart"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["site:ti.com energy harvesting PMIC programmable undervoltage overvoltage thresholds storage capacitor datasheet BQ25570","site:grayhill.com rotary switch multiple decks adjustable stops datasheet","site:analog.com voltage supervisor adjustable threshold hysteresis resistor first party"],"source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["\"capacitor size\" \"turn-on voltage\" energy harvesting optimization","\"Pareto\" capacitor voltage threshold energy harvesting intermittent computing","intermittent computing design space exploration capacitor threshold voltage Pareto","multi-deck rotary switch ganged selector resistor capacitor first party datasheet"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":"The component searches found joint capacitor/threshold characterization, reconfigurable capacitor banks, programmable analog thresholds, and multi-deck mechanical selectors, but not their proposed Pareto-screened passive combination."}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"Energy-Aware Sensing on Battery-Less LoRaWAN Devices with Energy Harvesting","publisher":"MDPI, Electronics","url":"https://www.famaey.eu/papers/jnl-sabovic2020a.pdf","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["Batteryless devices can shut down when capacitor voltage falls below the minimum operating voltage and recharge before turning on again.","Capacitor size and configurable initial voltage jointly affect task completion feasibility and cycle time.","Smaller capacitors recharge faster but require higher harvesting rates or starting voltages, while larger capacitors support lower harvesting rates with longer completion times.","The study experimentally evaluates multiple capacitances and initial voltages and derives an optimal starting voltage for a fixed workload and environment."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"Energy-adaptive Buffering for Efficient, Responsive, and Persistent Batteryless Systems","publisher":"Harrison Williams and Matthew Hicks; arXiv preprint","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08806","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["Buffer capacitance creates a documented reactivity-versus-longevity tradeoff: small buffers reach enable voltage sooner but support shorter uninterrupted work.","REACT and earlier systems such as Capybara and Morphy demonstrate reconfigurable capacitor-bank hardware for batteryless systems.","REACT uses voltage thresholds and switched capacitor banks to change capacitance, but its reconfiguration is runtime software-directed rather than an unpowered passive selector.","The authors report hardware evaluation under real-world power traces and identify switching losses and voltage spikes as relevant implementation risks."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"BQ25570 Ultra Low Power Harvester Power Management IC","publisher":"Texas Instruments","url":"https://www.ti.com/product/BQ25570","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["A commercial energy-harvesting PMIC supports conventional capacitors and supercapacitors as storage elements.","The device provides programmable battery-good thresholds and hysteresis that can enable or disable system loads or warn a microcontroller of power loss.","Its published voltage, current, and temperature limits provide concrete component-rating constraints for a bounded bench coupon.","The product implements standalone resistor-settable analog power management, but the retained page does not describe a Pareto-keyed selector."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"Series 43, 44 and 54 Multi-Deck Rotary Switches","publisher":"Grayhill","url":"https://grayhill.com/products/rotational-controls/rotary-switches/multi-deck-rotary-switch/43-54-d-ud-m/","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["Commercial mechanical rotary selectors can provide multiple decks operated by one shaft, multiple positions, and fixed or adjustable stops.","The product family can physically gang several low-current contact circuits under one control position.","Published contact ratings constrain possible bench use.","The product does not itself encode measured Pareto-optimal capacitor and supervisor-threshold pairings or identify a knee point."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"Primary research directly shows that capacitance and turn-on voltage jointly determine recharge delay, successful task execution, and intermittent shutdown behavior, and that small-versus-large buffers trade responsiveness against uninterrupted operating duration. The retained sources do not directly demonstrate the proposal's particular unrestricted jumper baseline, quantify dominated cross-pairings under repeated trials, or show that independently selected supervisor thresholds cause repeated failed executions for the proposed fixed workload.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"Joint capacitance and starting-voltage characterization for batteryless LoRaWAN","source_ids":["SRC1"],"overlap":"Tests multiple capacitor sizes and start voltages against task completion and cycle-time behavior, including infeasible configurations and the recharge-versus-energy-margin tradeoff.","remaining_difference":"It derives favorable operating points analytically and experimentally but does not retain a multiobjective non-dominated set in passive contact geometry, mechanically bar dominated cross-pairings, or provide a tactile frontier knee."},{"name":"REACT, Capybara, and Morphy reconfigurable capacitor-bank architectures","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"Use selectable capacitor banks to navigate responsiveness, capacity, longevity, and efficiency tradeoffs in batteryless intermittent systems; REACT also responds to voltage thresholds.","remaining_difference":"They dynamically reconfigure capacitance through electronic switches and runtime control. They do not show one unpowered selector jointly choosing capacitance and analog start/stop thresholds from a bench-screened Pareto set while making dominated settings unreachable."},{"name":"BQ25570 resistor-programmable energy-harvesting power management","source_ids":["SRC3"],"overlap":"Combines capacitor-compatible energy storage, analog voltage management, programmable thresholds, hysteresis, and load enable behavior without requiring a runtime optimizer.","remaining_difference":"Its settings are ordinary electrical configuration choices, not an ordered, empirically Pareto-screened collection of capacitance-threshold pairs with excluded dominated combinations."},{"name":"Multi-deck fixed-position mechanical selector combined with programmable power-management components","source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4"],"overlap":"The retained first-party products make it technically routine to gang multiple analog configuration circuits under one mechanical position and constrain available positions with stops.","remaining_difference":"No retained source characterizes the jointly selected settings for restart time and workload-completion reliability, omits contacts specifically because of measured dominance, provides a removable scenario-specific key plate, or marks a measured knee."}],"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","contrastive_claim_remaining":"For a fixed intermittent-computing workload and bounded source/temperature envelope, one unpowered mechanical selector can jointly select capacitor-bank size and analog start/stop thresholds such that every reachable operating detent corresponds to a measured non-dominated restart-time/completion-reliability pairing, every clearly dominated tested pairing is physically unreachable, and a nonbinding tactile detent marks a predeclared knee region. The retained art establishes every major component and the underlying tradeoff, but not this passive Pareto-keyed combination.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The claim is falsified by an earlier public system that uses a single passive mechanical control to expose only empirically non-dominated capacitance/threshold pairs for intermittent computation, or experimentally if any reachable detent is dominated, any omitted pairing is non-dominated beyond the predeclared uncertainty margin, contact parasitics change the ranking, or the supposed knee is not reproduced under the bounded traces and temperatures.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The bounded search covered the direct proposal, intermittent/transient/batteryless terminology, research practices, first-party PMIC and selector products, Pareto/design-space language, and combinations of capacitance, voltage threshold, workload completion, and mechanical selection. Four opened sources from four source hosts and at least three publishers were retained, including primary research and first-party product information.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The problem is partly supported: primary research documents intermittent shutdown, configuration-dependent task feasibility, and the fundamental responsiveness-versus-stored-energy tradeoff, although the particular dominated-jumper baseline remains to be demonstrated.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Adjacent work covers joint capacitor/start-voltage analysis, reconfigurable capacitor banks, programmable analog thresholds, and ganged mechanical selectors, but the retained sources do not show a passive selector whose reachable contacts are limited by empirical Pareto dominance. Reachability and dominance can be checked directly on a bounded coupon.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Testing no more than 16 pairings under three prerecorded source traces and two temperatures is bounded and directly measures recharge-to-release time, completion rate, brownouts, dominance, contact parasitics, and whether one removable plate includes all retained settings while excluding dominated ones.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A current-limited extra-low-voltage coupon operated by a qualified hardware engineer, within published component and contact ratings and with discharge, isolation, and halt procedures, presents no obvious authority stop. Mains, rechargeable-cell abuse, field deployment, and safety-critical use remain excluded.","source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4"]}},"screen_survival":true,"world_novelty_boundary":"This coarse, bounded public-web screen supports only an adjacent-prior-art disposition and a testable remaining contrast. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, expert acceptance, completeness of the encoded frontier, superiority of the knee, or realized deployment value."}