Development of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting via Vehicle Movements

Renewable energy source becomes one of consequential sector in electrical industry these days, especially in this era of environmentally-amicable energy source. Piezoelectric transducer can generate electric by applying force onto it by converting mechanical energy into electrical energy. In this paper present an implementation of piezoelectric energy harvesting via vehicles movement. There are three parameters is studied which is weight of vehicles, speed of vehicles and the number of vehicles passing through the piezoelectric transducers. The output voltage is analyzed and monitored by Arduino UNO using serial plotter. At the end of the experiment, the heavier weight of vehicles generates the highest voltage which is 0.1115V/kg based on rear and front tires movement. Furthermore, frequent number of vehicles passing through the piezoelectric transducer also give the highest voltage. At the end of experiment, the relationship between those parameters are relate in order to generate voltage.