エネルギーハーベスティングと熱工学

抄録

Unlike low-cost massive energy sources for grid systems, energy harvesting is a high-addedvalue power generation technology, in which small power can be extracted from energy sources in the environment. Energy harvesting technologies will make an important contribution to autonomous devices including wireless sensor nodes by providing battery-less long-lived power source. Recently, significant efforts have been paid in the country and abroad toward various applications such as building energy management system. Role of thermal engineering in the energy harvesting area is discussed.