Energy Harvesting and Wireless Energy Transmission for Embedded SHM Sensor Nodes
- 23 March 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Structural Health Monitoring
- Vol. 9 (3), 269-280
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1475921710366647
Abstract
In this article, we present experimental investigations using energy harvesting and wireless energy transmission to power wireless structural health monitoring sensor nodes. The goal of this study is to develop sensing systems that can be permanently embedded within a host structure without the need for an on-board power source. With this approach the required energy will be harvested from the ambient environment, or periodically delivered by a radio-frequency energy source to supplement conventional harvesting approaches. This approach combines several transducer types to harvest energy from multiple sources, providing a more robust solution that does not rely on a single energy source. Both piezoelectric and thermoelectric transducers are considered as energy harvesters to extract the ambient energy commonly available on civil structures such as bridges. Methods of increasing the efficiency, energy storage medium, target applications and the integrated use of energy harvesting sources with wireless energy transmission will be presented.Keywords
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