Energy harvesting: a review of recent developments

This paper aims to provide details of recent energy harvesting developments.

Following an introduction, this paper first considers mechanical and biomechanical energy harvesting developments. It then discusses hybrid harvesting technologies and self-powered sensors and concludes with a brief discussion.

Energy harvesting is the topic of a major research effort and growing commercial activities. Several advanced technologies are being used to develop sophisticated devices to harvest individual or combined energy sources. These developments are expected to play a central role in many emerging sensor markets.

This paper provides technical details of a selection of recently reported energy harvesting developments.