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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5760-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2013.6572444
