Energy harvesting schemes for building interior environment monitoring

Pawel Zylka; Dominik Pociecha

doi:10.1117/12.2244997

10 November 2016 Energy harvesting schemes for building interior environment monitoring

Pawel Zylka, Dominik Pociecha

Proceedings Volume 10161, 14th International Conference on Optical and Electronic Sensors; 1016105 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2244997
Event: 14th International Conference on Optical and Electronic Sensors, 2016, Gdansk, Poland

Abstract

A vision to supply microelectronic devices without batteries making them perpetual or extending time of service in battery-oriented mobile supply schemes is the driving force of the research related to ambient energy harvesting. Energy harnessing aims thus at extracting energy from various ambient energy “pools”, which generally are cost- or powerineffective to be scaled up for full-size, power-plant energy generation schemes supplying energy in electric form. These include – but are not limited to - waste heat, electromagnetic hum, vibrations, or human-generated power in addition to traditional renewable energy resources like water flow, tidal and wind energy or sun radiation which can also be exploited at the miniature scale by energy scavengers. However, in case of taking advantage of energy harvesting strategies to power up sensors monitoring environment inside buildings adaptable energy sources are restrained to only some which additionally are limited in spatial and temporal accessibility as well as available power. The paper explores experimentally an energy harvesting scheme exploiting human kinesis applicable in indoor environment for supplying a wireless indoor micro-system, monitoring ambient air properties (pressure, humidity and temperature).

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Pawel Zylka and Dominik Pociecha "Energy harvesting schemes for building interior environment monitoring", Proc. SPIE 10161, 14th International Conference on Optical and Electronic Sensors, 1016105 (10 November 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2244997

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