13-12-2009, 04:13 PM
Abstract
The DELTA Smart House is going to have a large number of sensors and microelectronic devices located throughout the house. These devices will need a clean, reliable source of energy that wonâ„¢t need constant maintenance. The goal of this seminar is to discuss utilization of piezoelectric energy sources to provide power to certain applications in the house. Initially an energy scavenging floor that used piezoelectric transducers to harvest wasted energy in the foot strike of a human being. In consideration of the high cost and minimal power output of these piezo-sources, it seems more feasible to create small, localized energy sources rather than one large unified system. This idea has lead to several potential applications. The first is to combine a piezoelectric power source with sensors such that there would be no need to ever change the batteries in these sensors
