December 2013 No.32
Micro piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters and its interfacing circuits
This article presents a micro-piezoelectric energy harvesting (MPEH) system which was designed to obtain electrical energy by converting vibrational energy within the environment. The withdrawn energy from 0.5 g accelerating vibration is able to illuminate a low power consuming LED with human visibility. The MPEH system creates a green, consistent self-power source for wireless sensor nodes which takes critical role in the machine to machine (M2M) network.