Energy harvesting from human and machine motion for wireless electronic devices

PD Mitcheson, EM Yeatman, GK Rao… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy harvesting generators are attractive as inexhaustible replacements for batteries in
low-power wireless electronic devices and have received increasing research interest in …

Energizing wireless sensor networks by energy harvesting systems: Scopes, challenges and approaches

ASMZ Kausar, AW Reza, MU Saleh… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
As the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) technology has great advancement, small and
smart WSN systems now can be used for more complicated and challenging applications …

A vibration energy harvesting device with bidirectional resonance frequency tunability

VR Challa, MG Prasad, Y Shi… - Smart Materials and …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Vibration energy harvesting is an attractive technique for potential powering of wireless
sensors and low power devices. While the technique can be employed to harvest energy …

Electrostatic conversion for vibration energy harvesting

S Boisseau, G Despesse… - Small-scale energy …, 2012 - books.google.com
“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 …

A micro inertial energy harvesting platform with self-supplied power management circuit for autonomous wireless sensor nodes

EE Aktakka, K Najafi - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 0.25 cm 3 autonomous energy harvesting micro-platform is realized to efficiently
scavenge, rectify and store ambient vibration energy with batteryless cold start-up and zero …

A coupled piezoelectric–electromagnetic energy harvesting technique for achieving increased power output through damping matching

VR Challa, MG Prasad, FT Fisher - Smart materials and …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Vibration energy harvesting is being pursued as a means to power wireless sensors and
ultra-low power autonomous devices. From a design standpoint, matching the electrical …

Human powered MEMS-based energy harvest devices

CY Sue, NC Tsai - Applied Energy, 2012 - Elsevier
The lifespan and stability of power supply are the most critical issues for implantable
biomedical devices (IMDs). Extracting energy from the ambient sources or human body …

Cantilever-based electret energy harvesters

S Boisseau, G Despesse, T Ricart… - Smart materials and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Micro power generator for harvesting low-frequency and nonperiodic vibrations

T Galchev, H Kim, K Najafi - Journal of Microelectromechanical …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new inertial power generator for scavenging low-frequency
nonperiodic vibrations called the Parametric Frequency-Increased Generator (PFIG). The …

Harvesting traffic-induced vibrations for structural health monitoring of bridges

TV Galchev, J McCullagh, RL Peterson… - … of Micromechanics and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper discusses the development and testing of a renewable energy source for
powering wireless sensors used to monitor the structural health of bridges. Traditional power …