Walking energy harvesting and self-powered tracking system based on triboelectric nanogenerators

• Mingliang Yao,
• Guangzhong Xie,
• Qichen Gong and
• Yuanjie Su

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1590–1595, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.141

• transportation alternatives. Keywords: harvesting walking energy; internet of things; mechanical energy; pedestrian flow area; self-powered tracking system; triboelectric nanogenerator; Introduction With the fast progress in urbanization and commercialization, energy acquisition for powering wearable

• the first time in this current work to build up a self-powered location-tracking system and to harvest mechanical energy from human walking. This work unravels the practicality of the u-TENG, which can be used as a device for harvesting energy from human motion, as a self-powered tracking system, for