Francesco Cottone, Assistant Professor at, Physics Dep. University of Perugia (Italy)
https://sites.google.com/site/cottonefra
Working with Dr Cottone and his team to create energy harvesting solutions for automotive and other applications that can help increase battery life.
Working on concepts and solutions of kinetic, thermal and radio frequency energy harvesting systems (EHS) for wireless sensors.
- R&D to develop efficient EHS for industrial applications.
- Design and test low-power electronics tailored for self-powering wireless sensors.
- Dr Cottone working with Design HMI LLC to develop collaboration and share expertise by interacting with integrators and OE’s.
Examples of realized Vibrational Energy Harvesters (VEHs)
Energy Management:
Hybrid Autonomous Wireless Sensor for Automotive (PV + Vibrational Piezoelectric Generator @ NiPS/UNIPG)
- Small enclosure: 60 x 35 x 25 mm
- Small enclosure: 60 x 35 x 25 mm
- Hybrid power source: 1 piezoelectric non-linear vibrations energy harvester + 2 small solar cells
- 1 LDO voltage regulator: Vout = 3,3 Vdc, Iq = 3,2 µA
- 1 high capacitance tantalum capacitor: 1000 µF 6,3 V
- 1 Nano Power supervisory circuitry
- 4 GHz 802.15.4 RF transceiver
- 16 bit Extreme Low Power µController
Nonlinear vibration energy harvesting at work: an application for the automotive sector, F. Orfei et al, 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Beijing, China, May 19 to 23, 2013, p.2735-2738
