ENERGY HARVESTING – NEW GREEN ENERGY

Energy Harvesting is the process in which energy is captured from a system's environment and converted into usable electric power. Energy harvesting allows electronics to operate where there's no conventional power source, eliminating the need to run wires or make frequent visits to replace batteries, that makes it the new possibility of green energy source. This short letter reports the 3 new designed energy harvesting systems based on the electromagnetic and piezoelectric effect from two universities, i.e. Lublin University of Technology (Poland) and University College Dublin (Republic of Ireland). The proposed systems can be used as a power supply for low-energy devices or in the diagnostics.