• DocumentCode
    627094
  • Title

    Nonlinear vibration energy harvesting at work: An application for the automotive sector

  • Author

    Orfei, Francesco ; Neri, Igor ; Vocca, Helios ; Gammaitoni, Luca

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    19-23 May 2013
  • Firstpage
    2735
  • Lastpage
    2738
  • Abstract
    An extreme low power energy conversion, storage and management circuitry has been developed and used to power a small digital wireless sensor with a piezoelectric nonlinear vibration energy harvester for automotive application. All the system has been designed with off-the-shelf components.
  • Keywords
    automotive electronics; energy harvesting; vibrations; wireless sensor networks; automotive application; automotive sector; digital wireless sensor; low-power energy conversion; nonlinear vibration energy harvesting; piezoelectric nonlinear vibration energy harvester; Microcontrollers; Regulators; Transceivers; Vibrations; Voltage control; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Energy management; energy harvesting; low power systems; wireless sensor;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • ISSN
    0271-4302
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5760-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCAS.2013.6572444
  • Filename
    6572444