Wearable Human-Body Energy Harvesting and Storage to Power Smart Healthcare Textiles

It might be occurred to all of us to have a wearable healthcare device with endless battery life. Think now this will happen by a cloth equipped with the harvesting units to convert our body motions to electricity. In other words, while we are doing our daily routines, any body movement, such as bending the knee during walking, will be translated into electrical energy, and stored in cloth-based energy storage units. Therefore, any activity of your body will be tracked and used to generate electricity. Now this energy will be stored and utilized as the resource for other wearable devices and sensors. Consequently, you will have access to an endless battery as long as you keep doing your daily activities.

Faculty Supervisor:

Hani Naguib;Hadis Zarrin;Hadis Zarrin;Hani Naguib;Hani E. Naguib

Student:

Partner:

Vee Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University; University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

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