Energy Harvesting Trends for Low Power Compact Electronic Devices

Dr. N. Anveshkumar pursued his M.Tech in 2014 and Ph.D degrees in 2019 from ECE, VNIT, Nagpur, India and has 3 years of Teaching and Research experience. He has published his research and review papers in 19 International/National Journals, 13 International/National conferences. Currently, he is working as an assistant professor in ECE, VIT Bhopal University, Bhopal, MP, India. He was one of the Editors for a text book on “Advances in THz technology and its applications” published by Springer in 2021, ISBN 978-981-16-5731-3. His research interests include Antennas, RF circuits and wireless communications. Currently, he is working in the area of high directional UWB antennas, energy harvesting, reconfigurable antennas, cognitive radio antennas, THz and Mobile antennas.Dr. Anirban Bhowmick completed his Ph.D in 2018 from Birla Institute of Mesra, Ranchi in the field of speech processing. He worked as a postdoc fellow in IISc Bangalore for 1 and half years. He has published more than 20 papers in international journals. He has almost 7 years of teaching experience and his research interest is in the field of signal and image processing, communication and related fields. Dr. Chandan Kumar is a Doctorate from the School of Biomedical Engg. IIT(BHU), Varanasi. He completed his M.Tech from NIT-Rourkela and B.Tech from ITM University in Electronics & Instrumentation. He has over two years of teaching experience at university level. He has publications in renowned International journals published by Wiley, Elsevier, ACS and RSC with three patents filed till date. His primary area of specialization is ‘Energy harvesting achieved through material synthesis and signal conditioning involving effective electronics circuitry to achieve effective electromechanical coupling’. His research interests include Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting, MEMS and flexible electronics. Dr. R. Maheswar has completed his B.E (ECE) from Madras University in the year 1999, M.E (Applied Electronics) from Bharathiyar University in the year 2002 and Ph.D in the field of Wireless Sensor Network from Anna University in the year 2012. He has about 19 years of teaching experience at various levels and presently working as Dean I/C – Research and Senior Associate Professor in the School of EEE, VIT Bhopal University, Bhopal. He has published around 65 papers at International Journals and International Conferences. His research interests include Wireless Sensor Network, IoT, Queueing theory and Performance Evaluation. He has served as guest editor for Wireless Networks Journal, Springer and served as editorial review board member for peer reviewed journals, and also edited 5 books supported by EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing book series. He is presently an associate editor in Wireless Networks Journal, Springer, Alexandria Engineering Journal, Elsevier and Ad-hoc Sensor Wireless Networks Journal, Old City Publishing.

Introduction.- Energy harvesting techniques and trends in applications.- Material and components selection for efficient energy harvesting.- RF and millimeter wave energy harvesting techniques and applications.- Energy harvesting systems for agriculture needs.- Acoustic signal energy harvesting techniques and relevant systems.- Bio-medical devices adopting energy harvesting schemes.- Wireless sensor networks, smart electronic gadget energy needs and energy harvesting systems.- Piezo energy harvesting and application prospects.- Energy harvesting systems for military, space and defence applications.- Mechanical energy harvesting scheme and implementation aspects, applications.- Fluid based energy harvesting systems for electronic appliances.- Energy harvesting schemes for home appliances, vehicles, chargers.- Light energy harvesting systems and applications.- Thermal energy harvesting prospects, systems and applications.- Conclusion.