Dynamic sensors for sensing and adaptively controlling various events, operations and/or conditions in various systems including combustion engines and thermochemical regeneration systems are disclosed. A dynamic sensor includes one or more transducer components for detecting conditions and events and generating detected signals, a controller for receiving and processing detected signals to generate an output signal for controlling one or more conditions, a transceiver component that can be controlled using radio frequency, acoustic or other means, and that can report the output signal continuously, periodically or when interrogated, a memory for storing instructions, calibration data and/or measured data, and an energy harvester component that harvests energy from events to power one or more components of the dynamic sensor.