Human body heat for powering wearable devices: From thermal energy to application
@article{Thielen2017HumanBH, title={Human body heat for powering wearable devices: From thermal energy to application}, author={Moritz Thielen and Lukas Sigrist and Michele Magno and C. Hierold and L. Benini}, journal={Energy Conversion and Management}, year={2017}, volume={131}, pages={44-54} }
Abstract Energy harvesting is the key technology to enable self-sustained wearable devices for the Internet of Things and medical applications. Among various types of harvesting sources such as light, vibration and radio frequency, thermoelectric generators (TEG) are a promising option due to their independence of light conditions or the activity of the wearer. This work investigates scavenging of human body heat and the optimization of the power conversion efficiency from body core to the… CONTINUE READING
Figures and Tables from this paper
104 Citations
Thermoelectric generators for wearable body heat harvesting: Material and device concurrent optimization
- Materials Science
- 2020
- 12
Wearable thermoelectric generator to harvest body heat for powering a miniaturized accelerometer
- Materials Science
- 2018
- 57
Human Body Heat Based Thermoelectric Harvester with Ultra-Low Input Power Management System for Wireless Sensors Powering
- Engineering
- 2019
- 1
Thermal and Electrical Energy Converters and Interfaces for the Internet of Humans
- Computer Science
- 2018
Using Miniature Thermoelectric Generators for Wearable Energy Harvesting
- Computer Science
- 2019 4th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech)
- 2019
A High-Efficient Power Converter for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting
- 2020 5th International Conference on Green Technology and Sustainable Development (GTSD)
- 2020
Wearable Thermoelectric Generator With Copper Foam as the Heat Sink for Body Heat Harvesting
- Materials Science, Computer Science
- IEEE Access
- 2018
- 8
Wearable Energy Harvesting: From body to battery
- Engineering, Computer Science
- 2017 12th International Conference on Design & Technology of Integrated Systems In Nanoscale Era (DTIS)
- 2017
- 38
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 66 REFERENCES
Characterization of Human Body-Based Thermal and Vibration Energy Harvesting for Wearable Devices
- Engineering, Computer Science
- IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
- 2014
- 93
- PDF
A batteryless thermoelectric energy-harvesting interface circuit with 35mV startup voltage
- Materials Science, Computer Science
- 2010 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC)
- 2010
- 60
- PDF
Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting of Human Body Heat for Wearable Sensors
- Engineering
- IEEE Sensors Journal
- 2013
- 252
- PDF
Thermal matching of a thermoelectric energy harvester with the environment and its application in wearable self-powered wireless medical sensors
- Computer Science
- 2009 15th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems
- 2009
- 14
Thermoelectric generator placed on the human body: system modeling and energy conversion improvements
- Materials Science
- 2010
- 65
- PDF
InfiniTime: Multi-sensor wearable bracelet with human body harvesting
- Computer Science
- Sustain. Comput. Informatics Syst.
- 2016
- 55
Energy scavenging for mobile and wireless electronics
- Computer Science
- IEEE Pervasive Computing
- 2005
- 2,409
- PDF
A 20 mV Input Boost Converter With Efficient Digital Control for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting
- Materials Science, Computer Science
- IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
- 2010
- 417
- PDF