TY - GEN
T1 - Energy harvesting for sensors in infrastructure monitoring and maintenance
AU - Han, Bo
AU - Kalis, Antonis
AU - Papadias, Constantionos
AU - Soman, Rohan
AU - Kyriakides, Marios
AU - Onoufriou, Toula
AU - Nielsen, Rasmus
AU - Prasad, Ramjee
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Infrastructure monitoring and maintenance needs various kinds of sensors; all these sensors are expected to have long lifetime and self- maintenance and not be replaced. For non-destructive infrastructure monitoring, these sensors should be wireless, however, wireless sensors have an inherent problem on energy efficiency and energy consumption. Thus, how to power sensors efficiently or how to design a self-powered sensor is a key issue to this problem. Energy harvesting technique emerges as a new direction on getting power from environment. Piezoelectric and electromagnetic harvesting methods on vibration are analysed in this paper, and a low cost self-powered conversion circuit is modelled and simulated. Other kinds of energy harvesting are also briefly compared with those two methods; the solar-electric, vibration-electric, thermal-electric and electromagnetic-electric energy harvesting methods are briefly compared in this paper.
AB - Infrastructure monitoring and maintenance needs various kinds of sensors; all these sensors are expected to have long lifetime and self- maintenance and not be replaced. For non-destructive infrastructure monitoring, these sensors should be wireless, however, wireless sensors have an inherent problem on energy efficiency and energy consumption. Thus, how to power sensors efficiently or how to design a self-powered sensor is a key issue to this problem. Energy harvesting technique emerges as a new direction on getting power from environment. Piezoelectric and electromagnetic harvesting methods on vibration are analysed in this paper, and a low cost self-powered conversion circuit is modelled and simulated. Other kinds of energy harvesting are also briefly compared with those two methods; the solar-electric, vibration-electric, thermal-electric and electromagnetic-electric energy harvesting methods are briefly compared in this paper.
KW - Energy harvesting
KW - Low Voltage Multiplier
KW - Power efficiency converter
KW - Structural Health Monitoring
KW - Wireless sensor
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85088057789
U2 - 10.2749/222137813806474606
DO - 10.2749/222137813806474606
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85088057789
T3 - Assessment, Upgrading and Refurbishment of Infrastructures
BT - Assessment, Upgrading and Refurbishment of Infrastructures
PB - International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)
T2 - IABSE Workshop on Assessment, Upgrading and Refurbishment of Infrastructures
Y2 - 6 May 2013 through 8 May 2013
ER -
