Man has needed and used energy

But, as the population increased, the energy

requirement also increased
Need to be obsolete in front of growing
population and technology
At the same time was energy was wasted in
many ways

As technology is developed use of electronics

equipment also increased.
Conventional methods of power generation
becoming insufficient. It introduced a new
problem, lack of power.
There is a need arises for an alternative
power generation method
At the same time energy is wasted in many
form and one of them is due to the human
locomotion

This waste of energy can be converted to

usable form using the help of piezo electric
sensor
Piezoelectric sensor is a device which can
convert pressure upon it into voltage.
We know that energy can be neither be
created and nor be destroyed but can be
transformed from one form to another
By using this energy conservation theorem
and piezo sensor we are proposing a new
method for power generation.

The working of footstep power generation

system involves three distinct phases.
Sensor interface and Transducing: Consists
array of piezoelectric sensors. Kinetic energy
is converted into electrical energy
Processing: Here the generated degraded
vibrating voltage will be fed to different
blocks of circuit element to get a proper
output
Storage: Resultant output will be stored in a
battery

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PIEZO
ELECTRIC

POWER
SUPPLY

LCD

AC
NEUTRALIZER

UNIDIRECTIONAL
CURRENT
CONTROLLER

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CONTROLLER

VOLTAGE
DIVIDER
RECHARGEABLE
BATTERY

MOBILE
CHARGER CIRCUIT

It is a device converts applied pressure into

voltage by detecting the mechanical vibration
Here an array of 10 piezoelectric sensors are
used for generation of power
The array will produce maximum 9v with
100mA current
lead zirconate titanate (PZT) and multilayer
polyvinylidene fluo- ride (PVDF) are the 2
types of sensor in market
The voltage from the sensor array is fed to a
filter

Generally a capacitor is used as filter to

remove the AC content in the sensor output
and to get pure DC
A capacitor is a storage device will store
voltage for a minute time with charging and
discharging phenomenon
It will acts as short circuit for AC and acts as
open circuit for DC
The filter output is fed to unidirectional
current controller

Examples for unidirectional current

controllers are Diodes and Thyristors.
They will make the current flow in one
direction by conducting to only one side
Here it is used to prevent the flow of current
back to piezoelectric sensor
This voltage is then fed to the Battery for
storing and Voltage divider circuit to provide
reference voltage to LCD

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