Overview of piezoelectric energy harvesting technology in the tire condition monitoring systems

Abstract

Over the past decade, energy harvesting from the surrounding resources has been a hot topic for numerous researches. The automotive industry is one field that pays attention to this clean energy which plays a primary role in the vehicle’s safety. Moreover, a cost-efficient monitoring structure to better track tires conditions is required to fill the tires safety requirements. The main objective of this paper is to present a state of the art about the techniques of vibrational energy harvesting from car’s tires for the embedded self-power sensors and tires condition monitoring systems (TCMS).

Applications of a Novel Tunable Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvester

“…Alla et al [ 1 ] discussed piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting for powering the sensors embedded for monitoring tire pressure in automobiles. Hosseinkhani et al [ 2 ] provided a comprehensive review of using sound- and piezo-based vibration energy harvesting in railways by providing different methods and their advantages and drawbacks.…”