A study of low level vibrations as a power source for wireless sensor nodes

By Shad Roundy, Paul K. Wright, Jan M. Rabaey. Computer Communications, 2003

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Frequency Self-tuning Scheme for Broadband Vibration Energy Harvesting (2010, background): “Various sources can be considered for energy harvesting, for instance solar (Hamakawa, 2003), magnetic (Shearwood and Yates, 1997), wind (Priya, 2005), but a particular emphasis has been placed on vibration energy harvesting for supplying energy to small-scale devices (Roundy et al., 2003).”
Self-powered nanowire devices. (2010, background): “7 mW cm −3 , which is 6 to 11 times that generated by a PZT cantileve”
Energy harvesting by means of flow-induced vibrations on aerospace vehicles (2016, background): “Up-to-date technologies allow WSNs to reduce power requirements to the range of tens to hundreds of microwatts [170].”
Fabrication of composite PVDF-ZnO nanofiber mats by electrospinning for energy scavenging application with enhanced efficiency (2015, background): “Piezoelectric materials are one of the most important materials used for harvesting energies and many studies have been conducted on them [8–15].”
Broadband vibration-based energy harvesting improvement through frequency up-conversion by magnetic excitation (2010, background): “Vibration-based energy harvesting has received significant attention due to the ubiquity of untapped vibrational energy available in or around most man-made systems (Roundy et al 2003).”
Design considerations for ultra-low energy wireless microsensor nodes (2005, neutral): “The AMPS-1 sensor node, a representative node example, provides a hardware platform for distributed micro sensor networks using commercial, off the-shelf (COTS) components.”
Ultra-Low Resonant Piezoelectric MEMS Energy Harvester With High Power Density (2017, background): “frequencies of most of the ambient vibration sources are normally less than 200 Hz [26].”
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Solutions (2014, background): “Power output reaches its maximum when the electrical damping is equal to the mechanical damping [20,46] (Figure 7).”
Nonlinear mechanism in MEMS devices for energy harvesting applications (2010, neutral): “23 – No [39] ∼50 23 × 20 80 2 23 – No [40] 250 10 × 40 120 500 0.”
Improving functionality of vibration energy harvesters using magnets (2012, background): “Vibrations can be converted into electricity via electromagnetic (El-Hami et al., 2001), electrostatic (Roundy et al., 2003), piezoelectric (Yang et al., 2009; Yang and Tang, 2009), and magnetostrictive (Wang and Yuan, 2008) mechanisms.”
Wireless sensor networks: applications and challenges of ubiquitous sensing (2005, background): “Energy storage may be achieved with the use of batteries or alternative devices such as fuel cells or miniaturized heat engines, whereas energy-scavenging opportunities [ D37 ] are provided by solar power, vibrations, acoustic noise, and piezoelectric effects [D38].”