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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Kinetic Electromagnetic Energy Harvester for Railway Applications-Development and Test with Wireless Sensor.

Zdenek Hadas, Ondrej Rubes, Filip Ksica, Jan Chalupa

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Zdenek HadasFaculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-9097-1550
Ondrej RubesFaculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0001-7463-1217
Filip KsicaFaculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0001-5270-6628
Jan ChalupaFaculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-4993-347X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper deals with a development and lab testing of energy harvesting technology for autonomous sensing in railway applications. Moving trains are subjected to high levels of vibrations and rail deformations that could be converted via energy harvesting into useful electricity. Modern maintenance solutions of a rail trackside typically consist of a large number of integrated sensing systems, which greatly benefit from autonomous source of energy. Although the amount of energy provided by conventional energy harvesting devices is usually only around several milliwatts, it is sufficient as a source of electrical power for low power sensing devices. The main aim of this paper is to design and test a kinetic electromagnetic energy harvesting system that could use energy from a passing train to deliver sufficient electrical power for sensing nodes. Measured mechanical vibrations of regional and express trains were used in laboratory testing of the developed energy harvesting device with an integrated resistive load and wireless transmission system, and based on these tests the proposed technology shows a high potential for railway applications.

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electromagnetic transducerenergy harvestingmodeltesttrainvibrationwireless sensor

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PMID35161651
PMCPMC8839185

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