BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Near You Event - Energy Harvesting\n\nEvent Type: Technical Lec ture\n\nIndustry Sector: Renewable energy\n\nSpeak Details: Meiling Zhu is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Head of Energy Harvesti ng Powered Wireless Sensing System Research Group in the College of Engine ering\, Mathematics and Physical Sciences\, the University of Exeter in th e UK\n\nDescription : The Energy Harvesting Research Group at the Universi ty of Exeter is working on cutting edge academic research with a firm focu s on needs of industry. We use a fully integrated system approach to addre ss research challenges on the mismatch between energy harvested and energy demanded by wireless sensing systems in the areas of: \;\n\n* Novel e nergy harvesting transducer designs  \;\n* Modelling and Simulation&nb sp\;\n \;* Power management with energy-aware architecture \;\n&nb sp\;* Low power consumption wireless sensing nodes \;\n* Integration o f the above developed technologies for applications \;\n\nProf. Zhu&rs quo\;s group harvests energy from the vibration of aircraft in an active s ervice and human walking movement energy and then convert the harvested en ergy into useable electrical energy to provide electrical power for low po wer consumption wireless communication sensor networks\, making them self- sufficient in energy supply. \;\n\nThe developed system for aircraft p otentially enables aircraft structural health monitoring systems to be com pletely autonomous to run without constantly maintenance because this tech nology is &ldquo\;fit and forget&rdquo\;\, without the need for batteries and therefore without need to replace batteries and so it greatly reduces costs and time required for installation\, replacement and maintenance. Lo gistic\, military\, and civilian aircraft transports will benefit from thi s development\, for example\, structural health monitoring of airframe\, g earbox and micro and small UAV sensing. \;\n\nThe developed knee-joint energy harvesting uses a novel &ldquo\;Pizzicato excitation&rdquo\; to en sure piezo-harvester to be capable of working at a wide range of vibration frequency and increase the efficiency of piezo-harvesters for low frequen cy. This proposed Pizzicato excitation has overcome most piezoelectric ene rgy harvester poor power harvested in real operational environment. \; \n\nProf Zhu will present her group research methodology and their develop ed two high performance &ldquo\;proof-of-concept&rdquo\; energy harvesting powered wireless sensor node demonstrator to harvest aircraft wing strain energy for structural health monitoring application and harvest human wal king energy for battery-free solider applications.\n\nContact Details: Chr is Smith\nTelephone: 01392 263652 DTEND:20150114T210000 DTSTAMP:20260714T214015Z DTSTART:20150114T190000 LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 004\, Harrison Building\, University of Exeter\, N orth Park Road\, Exeter\, EX4 4QF\, United Kingdom SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Energy Harvesting UID:2bf295b2-2a45-4efc-b611-28abfad9ece8 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR