Energy Harvesting for Self Powered Sensor Systems
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Wireless autonomous sensor systems become steadily standard components in our environment and they become smaller, cheaper and more sophisticated. Energy harvesters fabricated by micro-system technology can realize the autonomy of those systems. An overview of latest results and remaining challenges will be given with the focus on vibration energy harvesters. These harvesters are of specific interest where vibrations or repetitive shocks are present. In this paper the application focus will be on tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) and ‘intelligent tire’ application. The design and characterization of piezo-electric energy harvesters for this application will be presented together with system optimization of wireless sensor systems mounted in the tire.
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