Home Chimney Pinwheels (HCP) as Steh and Remote Monitoring for Smart Building IoT and WSN Applications
Smart, and ultra-low energy consuming Internet of Things (IoTs), wireless sensor networks (WSN), and autonomous devices are being deployed to smart buildings and cities, which require continuous power supply, whereas battery usage has accompanying environmental problems, coupled with additional main...
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| author | Ajibike Eunice Akin-Ponnle Paulo Capitão Ricardo Torres Nuno Borges Carvalho |
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| description | Smart, and ultra-low energy consuming Internet of Things (IoTs), wireless sensor networks (WSN), and autonomous devices are being deployed to smart buildings and cities, which require continuous power supply, whereas battery usage has accompanying environmental problems, coupled with additional maintenance cost. We present Home Chimney Pinwheels (HCP) as the Smart Turbine Energy Harvester (STEH) for wind; and Cloud-based remote monitoring of its output data. The HCP commonly serves as an external cap to home chimney exhaust outlets; they have very low inertia to wind; and are available on the rooftops of some buildings. Here, an electromagnetic converter adapted from a brushless DC motor was mechanically fastened to the circular base of an 18-blade HCP. In simulated wind, and rooftop experiments, an output voltage of 0.3 V to 16 V was realised for a wind speed between 0.6 to 16 km/h. This is sufficient to operate low-power IoT devices deployed around a smart city. The harvester was connected to a power management unit and its output data was remotely monitored via the IoT analytic Cloud platform “ThingSpeak” by means of LoRa transceivers, serving as sensors; while also obtaining supply from the harvester. The HCP can be a battery-less “stand-alone” low-cost STEH, with no grid connection, and can be installed as attachments to IoT or wireless sensors nodes in smart buildings and cities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fd34603beb884cd08759307dfd3871e42023-11-17T08:40:51ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-03-01235285810.3390/s23052858Home Chimney Pinwheels (HCP) as Steh and Remote Monitoring for Smart Building IoT and WSN ApplicationsAjibike Eunice Akin-Ponnle0Paulo Capitão1Ricardo Torres2Nuno Borges Carvalho3Departamento de Electrónical, Telecomunicações e Informática, (DETI), Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, PortugalDepartamento de Electrónical, Telecomunicações e Informática, (DETI), Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, PortugalDepartamento de Electrónical, Telecomunicações e Informática, (DETI), Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, PortugalDepartamento de Electrónical, Telecomunicações e Informática, (DETI), Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, PortugalSmart, and ultra-low energy consuming Internet of Things (IoTs), wireless sensor networks (WSN), and autonomous devices are being deployed to smart buildings and cities, which require continuous power supply, whereas battery usage has accompanying environmental problems, coupled with additional maintenance cost. We present Home Chimney Pinwheels (HCP) as the Smart Turbine Energy Harvester (STEH) for wind; and Cloud-based remote monitoring of its output data. The HCP commonly serves as an external cap to home chimney exhaust outlets; they have very low inertia to wind; and are available on the rooftops of some buildings. Here, an electromagnetic converter adapted from a brushless DC motor was mechanically fastened to the circular base of an 18-blade HCP. In simulated wind, and rooftop experiments, an output voltage of 0.3 V to 16 V was realised for a wind speed between 0.6 to 16 km/h. This is sufficient to operate low-power IoT devices deployed around a smart city. The harvester was connected to a power management unit and its output data was remotely monitored via the IoT analytic Cloud platform “ThingSpeak” by means of LoRa transceivers, serving as sensors; while also obtaining supply from the harvester. The HCP can be a battery-less “stand-alone” low-cost STEH, with no grid connection, and can be installed as attachments to IoT or wireless sensors nodes in smart buildings and cities.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/5/2858energy harvestinghome chimney pinwheels (HCP)internet of things (IoT)LoRasmart buildingsmart city |
| spellingShingle | Ajibike Eunice Akin-Ponnle Paulo Capitão Ricardo Torres Nuno Borges Carvalho Home Chimney Pinwheels (HCP) as Steh and Remote Monitoring for Smart Building IoT and WSN Applications Sensors energy harvesting home chimney pinwheels (HCP) internet of things (IoT) LoRa smart building smart city |
| title | Home Chimney Pinwheels (HCP) as Steh and Remote Monitoring for Smart Building IoT and WSN Applications |
| title_full | Home Chimney Pinwheels (HCP) as Steh and Remote Monitoring for Smart Building IoT and WSN Applications |
| title_fullStr | Home Chimney Pinwheels (HCP) as Steh and Remote Monitoring for Smart Building IoT and WSN Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Home Chimney Pinwheels (HCP) as Steh and Remote Monitoring for Smart Building IoT and WSN Applications |
| title_short | Home Chimney Pinwheels (HCP) as Steh and Remote Monitoring for Smart Building IoT and WSN Applications |
| title_sort | home chimney pinwheels hcp as steh and remote monitoring for smart building iot and wsn applications |
| topic | energy harvesting home chimney pinwheels (HCP) internet of things (IoT) LoRa smart building smart city |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/5/2858 |
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