Energy Harvesting—Technical Analysis of Evolution, Control Strategies, and Future Aspectsa

Abstract

This paper provides a technical analysis of energy harvesting (EH) in the field of power and energy sector, including different aspects of harvesting energy, individual case history, control strategies of harvesting in the field of power and energy sector together with the current trend and future aspects of it. EH is comparatively a new concept which is growing very fast since the 20th century and catching new generation research approaches. This paper not only describes the past and current scenarios of harvesting energy with radio frequency (RF) and renewables but also gives author’s own anticipation of the upcoming future trends of it by comparing the case histories.

Keywords

• Energy harvesting (EH)
• piezoelectric
• radio frequency (RF)
• solar
• triboelectric
• wind