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A Tuneable Pressure-Based Energy Harvester for Powering the Environmental Internet of Things
As the internet of things expands to more remote locations, solutions are required for long-term remote powering of environmental sensing devices. In this publication, a device is presented which utilises the slow-moving diurnal temperature change present in many natural environments to produce elec...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9698778/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36422402 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi13111973 |
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author | Curry, Joshua Harris, Nick White, Neil |
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description | As the internet of things expands to more remote locations, solutions are required for long-term remote powering of environmental sensing devices. In this publication, a device is presented which utilises the slow-moving diurnal temperature change present in many natural environments to produce electrical energy. This device utilises a novel actuator which harnesses temperature-dependent phase change to provide a variable force output, and this is combined with energy storage and release apparatus to convert the output force into electrical energy. Appropriate modelling is utilised to identify parameters for system tuning, and a final proof-of-concept solution is constructed and demonstrated to generate up to 10 [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] per 24 h period. |
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spelling | pubmed-96987782022-11-26 A Tuneable Pressure-Based Energy Harvester for Powering the Environmental Internet of Things Curry, Joshua Harris, Nick White, Neil Micromachines (Basel) Article As the internet of things expands to more remote locations, solutions are required for long-term remote powering of environmental sensing devices. In this publication, a device is presented which utilises the slow-moving diurnal temperature change present in many natural environments to produce electrical energy. This device utilises a novel actuator which harnesses temperature-dependent phase change to provide a variable force output, and this is combined with energy storage and release apparatus to convert the output force into electrical energy. Appropriate modelling is utilised to identify parameters for system tuning, and a final proof-of-concept solution is constructed and demonstrated to generate up to 10 [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] per 24 h period. MDPI 2022-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9698778/ /pubmed/36422402 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi13111973 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Curry, Joshua Harris, Nick White, Neil A Tuneable Pressure-Based Energy Harvester for Powering the Environmental Internet of Things |
title | A Tuneable Pressure-Based Energy Harvester for Powering the Environmental Internet of Things |
title_full | A Tuneable Pressure-Based Energy Harvester for Powering the Environmental Internet of Things |
title_fullStr | A Tuneable Pressure-Based Energy Harvester for Powering the Environmental Internet of Things |
title_full_unstemmed | A Tuneable Pressure-Based Energy Harvester for Powering the Environmental Internet of Things |
title_short | A Tuneable Pressure-Based Energy Harvester for Powering the Environmental Internet of Things |
title_sort | tuneable pressure-based energy harvester for powering the environmental internet of things |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9698778/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36422402 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi13111973 |
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