ArticleScientific reports2016
An Energy Harvesting Underwater Acoustic Transmitter for Aquatic Animals.
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- Acoustic telemetry for marine animal and environmental monitoring: Technologies, challenges, and emerging trends.Fundamental research · 2026Review
- What acoustic telemetry can and cannot tell us about fish biology.Journal of fish biology · 2025Review
- Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from the Thorax Vibration of Freely Flying Bees.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- LocoMote: AI-driven Sensor Tags for Fine-Grained Undersea Localization and Sensing.IEEE sensors journal · 2024Article
- Wearable sensors for monitoring marine environments and their inhabitants.Nature biotechnology · 2023Review
- Towards breath sensors that are self-powered by design.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- An Atlas of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters in Oceanic Applications.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- A large dataset of detection and submeter-accurate 3-D trajectories of juvenile Chinook salmon.Scientific data · 2021Article
- A Review of PZT Patches Applications in Submerged Systems.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Review
- Energy Harvesting Hybrid Acoustic-Optical Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks Localization.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Article
- Rectifying the output of vibrational piezoelectric energy harvester using quantum dots.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Acoustic telemetry is the primary method to actively track aquatic animals for behavioral studies. However, the small storage capacities of the batteries used in the transmitters limit the time that the implanted animals can be studied. In this research, we developed and implemented a battery-free acoustic transmitter that uses a flexible piezoelectric beam to harvest energy from fish swimming as the power source. The transmitter sends out a unique identification code with a sufficiently strong signal (150 dB, ref: 1 μPa at 1 meter) that has a detection range of up to 100 meters. Two prototypes, 100 mm and 77 mm long, respectively, weighing only about 1 gram or less in air, were sub-dermally implanted in two species of live fish. Transmissions were successfully detected as the fish swam in a natural manner. This represents the first known implanted energy-harvesting transmitter demonstrated in vivo. Successful development of this transmitter greatly expands the potential for long-term studies of the behaviors of aquatic animals and for subsequently developing strategies to mitigate the environmental impacts of renewable energy systems.
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