In recent years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have grown dramatically and made a
great progress in many applications. But having limited life, batteries, as the power sources …

The trends in miniaturization of electronic devices give rise to the attention of energy
harvesting technologies that gathers tiny wattages of power. Here this study demonstrates …

“Everything will become a sensor”; this is a global trend to increase the amount of
information collected from equipment, buildings, environments… enabling us to interact with …

Integration of structures and functions has permitted the electricity consumption of sensors,
actuators and electronic devices to be reduced. Therefore, it is now possible to imagine low …

Design, modeling, simulation, and vibration testing related to electromagnetic energy
harvesters are investigated in this paper. A rail-borne electromagnetic energy harvester with …

Small-scale wind energy can be harvested for wireless sensing applications by exploiting
the galloping phenomenon of a bluff body attached to a piezoelectric cantilever. Certain …

Thanks to miniaturization, it is now possible to imagine self-powered systems that use
vibrations to produce their own electrical energy. Many energy harvesting systems already …

This paper describes a broadband energy harvester working on the principle of contact
electrification or triboelectric charging. Design and fabrication of the device have been …

This article presents a new concept for electrostatic energy harvesting devices that increase
output power under displacement limited inertial mass motion at sufficiently large …

Tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) are applications where energy harvesting may
prove useful as a power source. In this paper, we present the design, modeling, and …