Emerging Dimensions in the Energy Harvesting

Jain, Alok

doi:10.9790/1676-0317080

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“…The Innowattech company in Israel buried piezoelectric energy harvesting transducers under the asphalt road of 6cm, and the interval distance of transducers were 30cm. Experimental results showed that, when a truck with the weight of 12 tons passed through the road with transducers buried at both sides for 10 meters, electricity of 1 kilowatt-hour would be generated [6]. Besides harvesting the energy, these transducers with the name of 'Weighing In Motion' can also be used to measure the traffic flow, car speed and car load [7].In the technology using piezoelectric energy for powering wireless sensor, A bridge wireless monitoring technique presented based on traffic vibration energy harvesting, which was tested on a 1 km long New Carquinez bridge in California and showed an average power of 0.5-0.75μW for the power usage of wireless sensing [8].…”

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An Adaptive Self-powered Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Circuit and Its Application on Bridge Condition Monitoring

Zhang

Geng

2017

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Abstract:The abundant mechanical vibration energy in bridge road environment can be converted into electric energy by using the piezoelectric energy harvest technology, which could be an efficient way to provide energy required by the wireless sensor network in the bridge condition monitoring system. An autonomous energy harvesting system has been designed based on cantilever beams for sensing and acquiring the bridge vibration energy. After the analysis of the dynamic properties of the piezoelectric cantilever beam in the energy conversion, three kinds of interface circuits were compared through simulation and experimental results. It was shown that the VD interface circuit has less power loss. Furthermore, the proposed closed loop control method based on the VD circuit was simple, adaptive, and self-powered, which is suitable for the road energy harvesting application. Finally, the energy harvesting system based on VD circuit was realized with harvested power of around 0.8mW.Keywords: piezoelectric cantilever energy harvester 1; autonomous 2; adaptive 3; self-powered 4; voltage doubler interface circuit 5; closed loop control 6; feed-forward 7; multi-shot technology 8

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An Adaptive Self-powered Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Circuit and Its Application on Bridge Condition Monitoring

Zhang

Geng

2017

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“…Energy harvesting elements are efficiently and effectively used to capture ambient energies in which then is accumulated and stored for direct or indirect supply. Moreover, energy harvesting is an alternative energy source to complement a main power source, to improve the overall system reliability and to prevent interruption of power [2]. However, the electrical power by the harvester come from ultra-low power (ULP) source is usually generated in less than few milli-watts.…”

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Ultra-Low Power RF Energy Harvesting of 1.9GHz & 2.45GHz Narrow-Band Rectenna for Battery-Less Remote Control

Sampe¹,

Yunus²,

Yunas³

et al. 2017

(IJIEE

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Abstract-Various rectenna designs have been investigated to deal with a big growth interest in wireless energy harvesting. This paper presents a rectenna design of dual frequencies operating antenna at microwave bands which are 1.9 GHz and 2.45 GHz. Tunable impedance matching is considered necessary to supply maximum power transfer from low energy source. Since power efficiency is such a main concern, the perfect matches are desired. The front-end of dual-band receiving antennas convert microwave input signal into alternating current (AC) form. The matching network and the load impedances of the rectenna design are in matched condition to decrease reflected power and to increase input power to rectifier. Then, the power is rectified by the CMOS rectifier to generate direct current (DC) voltage that required for the electronic load. Finally, the system performance is verified with PSpice simulation results. In dual frequency operation, with -20 dBm power source over 1M Ω resistance load, the harvester system is able to generate DC output voltage of 2.09 V and the efficiency reaches 43.68% which is indicate high efficiency for a lower power input level application. The stated results represent that a dual-band rectenna of the energy harvester system could produce 1.62% to 10.18% more efficiency over a single-band rectenna at 1.9 GHz and 2.45 GHz respectively. Index Terms-Dual-band antenna, rectifying, radio frequency, energy harvester, MOSFET, microwave band.

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Sensor Network Platform and Operating Systems

Wang¹,

Li²

2015

Handbook of Sensor Networking

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Emerging Dimensions in the Energy Harvesting

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An Adaptive Self-powered Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Circuit and Its Application on Bridge Condition Monitoring

An Adaptive Self-powered Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Circuit and Its Application on Bridge Condition Monitoring

Ultra-Low Power RF Energy Harvesting of 1.9GHz & 2.45GHz Narrow-Band Rectenna for Battery-Less Remote Control

Sensor Network Platform and Operating Systems

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