Energy Harvesting on Human Bodies

Human body has an interesting potential to provide energy to micro-electronic systems. There are several techniques that can harvest energy from human body and convert it in energy to be used by electronic systems. Usually this energy cannot be used immediately and needs to be conditioned. This chap...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inSmart Health Vol. 8700; pp. 125 - 159
Main Authors Rebel, Gregor, Estevez, Francisco, Gloesekoetter, Peter, Castillo-Secilla, Jose M.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2015
Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Energy harvesting
Energy storage
Health & safety aspects of computing
Human body systems
Information retrieval
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Human body has an interesting potential to provide energy to micro-electronic systems. There are several techniques that can harvest energy from human body and convert it in energy to be used by electronic systems. Usually this energy cannot be used immediately and needs to be conditioned. This chapter summarizes about current trends of energy storage systems. Techniques for extracting energy from human body, estimations and experimental results based on previous works are discussed. The merge of all the above mentioned concepts, providing a general idea to the reader about the state of the art in energy harvesting from human bodies.
ISBN:9783319162256
331916225X
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-16226-3_6