A Robust Energy Management Circuit for Energy Harvesting from Wideband Low-Acceleration Vibrations in Wireless Sensor Screws
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In: IEEE Sensors Letters, 2025, p. 1-4.
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T1 - A Robust Energy Management Circuit for Energy Harvesting from Wideband Low-Acceleration Vibrations in Wireless Sensor Screws
AU - Hamza, Kholoud
AU - Bouattour, Ghada
AU - Benbrahim, Fatma
AU - Bader, Sebastian
AU - Fakhfakh, Ahmed
AU - Kanoun, Olfa
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Enabling broad use of electromagnetic energy harvesting in wireless sensor screws requires robust systems that work with weak vibrations and varying frequency profiles. This contribution presents an energy management circuit incorporating two cooperating DC-DC converters controlled by self-powered MOSFET switches and a passive voltage multiplier enabling low-voltage start-up. The circuit operates effectively over an acceleration range of 0.07-0.21 g. It consistently harvests energy across a wider frequency range than energy management circuits based on single DC-DC converters. For example, at an acceleration of 0.21 g, the frequency range is 20–30 Hz. Thereby it realizes, e.g. at 25 Hz, an efficiency of 72%. The proposed circuit enables robust energy harvesting in a wide frequency range, supporting wireless sensor operation even under low-vibration conditions typical of industrial predictive maintenance.
AB - Enabling broad use of electromagnetic energy harvesting in wireless sensor screws requires robust systems that work with weak vibrations and varying frequency profiles. This contribution presents an energy management circuit incorporating two cooperating DC-DC converters controlled by self-powered MOSFET switches and a passive voltage multiplier enabling low-voltage start-up. The circuit operates effectively over an acceleration range of 0.07-0.21 g. It consistently harvests energy across a wider frequency range than energy management circuits based on single DC-DC converters. For example, at an acceleration of 0.21 g, the frequency range is 20–30 Hz. Thereby it realizes, e.g. at 25 Hz, an efficiency of 72%. The proposed circuit enables robust energy harvesting in a wide frequency range, supporting wireless sensor operation even under low-vibration conditions typical of industrial predictive maintenance.
KW - DC-DC converters
KW - electromagnetic converter
KW - Energy harvesting
KW - vibration converters
KW - weak vibration sources
KW - wideband
KW - wireless sensor nodes (WSN)
KW - Engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105011721746&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/LSENS.2025.3592235
DO - 10.1109/LSENS.2025.3592235
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:105011721746
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - IEEE Sensors Letters
JF - IEEE Sensors Letters
SN - 2475-1472
ER -