A track-borne energy transducer is a smart device for harvesting energy of trains or rail transportation systems. In this paper, the authors extend this application through introducing a self-powered ZigBee wireless sensor node. The proposed hardware prototype consists of a ZigBee coordinator at road-side and a series of sensors (Accelerometer, temperature sensor, humidity sensor, and infrared detector) connected to a ZigBee end device at rail-side. The ZigBee end device is powered by the magnetic levitation energy harvester and communicated wirelessly with the ZigBee coordinator. The magnetic levitation oscillator is selected due to its broad-band response characteristics. The results indicate a peak–peak output voltage of 2.3 V under the condition that the vehicle travels over the rail-borne device at the speed of 105 km/h.


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    Title :

    Self-Powered ZigBee Wireless Sensor Nodes for Railway Condition Monitoring


    Contributors:
    Gao, Mingyuan (author) / Wang, Ping (author) / Wang, Yifeng (author) / Yao, Lingkan (author)


    Publication date :

    2018-03-01


    Size :

    3179005 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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