A High-Performance Rotational Energy Harvester Integrated with Artificial Intelligence-Powered Triboelectric Sensors for Wireless Environmental Monitoring System

K. Shrestha, Pukar Maharjan, T. Bhatta, S. Sharma, MT Rahman, S. Lee, Md Salauddin, SMS Rana, and Jae Y. Park

Advanced Engineering Materials, Apr 6, 2022

A High-Performance Rotational Energy Harvester Integrated with Artificial Intelligence-Powered Triboelectric Sensors for Wireless Environmental Monitoring System
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The prevailing energy harvester utilizes a convectional magnet that limits the output power due to the imperfect coupling of the flux linkage and the leakage of the magnetic fluxes away from the coil. Herein, a circular Halbach array magnet comprising the arc magnets is proposed as a high-performance rotational energy harvester for preventing flux leakage by concentrating the magnetic flux in a particular path. The Halbach magnet is made up of eight individual arc magnet segments that are kept apart by 1 mm to induce a fourfold increase in magnetic flux density over a conventional magnet. The proposed rotational energy harvester can deliver an exceptional 603.2 W m−3 power density, which is attributed to a three times increase in the power density. The harvested power is utilized to charge a 30 mAh battery for driving a complete IoT system for the development of self-powered wireless environmental monitoring systems. Furthermore, an intelligent system is designed using cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology which accounts for Mxene/P(VDF-TRFE)-based triboelectric sensor output data and considers different weather parameters to accord a high accuracy of 99% in wind speed prediction.

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