Battery-less non-contact temperature measurement system powered by energy harvesting from intentional human action

Davide Alghisi; Marco Ferrari; Vittorio Ferrari

Battery-less non-contact temperature measurement system powered by energy harvesting from intentional human action

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Author(s): Davide Alghisi ¹ ; Marco Ferrari ¹ ; Vittorio Ferrari ¹
- Affiliations: 1: Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Source: Volume 9, Issue 2, March 2015, p. 96 – 104
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cds.2013.0437 , Print ISSN 1751-858X, Online ISSN 1751-8598

Received 27/11/2013, Accepted 20/06/2014, Revised 03/06/2014, Published 25/03/2015

This paper presents a battery-less non-contact temperature measurement system powered by energy harvesting from intentional human action. The conversion between the human action and electrical energy is provided by a hand-crank electromagnetic (EM) converter. The AC voltage generated by the EM converter has time-varying amplitude and frequency and is rectified by a metal–oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor-based voltage doubler active rectifier circuit. The harvested energy is efficiently stored into multiple capacitors by the innovative sequential charging of storage capacitors technique, and used to power a micro electro mechanical system thermopile sensor with related signal conditioning electronics plus a liquid-crystal display to visualise the temperature readings. With a force of about 29.4 N over 2 cm applied to the EM converter, the power management circuit is able to extract an energy of 27.5 mJ and power the non-contact temperature measurement system for about 33 s.

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