Commercialisation of Energy Harvesting Technology
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | ReVibe Energy AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 260 000 |
| Project duration | November 2014 - October 2015 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
ReVibe Energy is developing a promising vibration energy harvesting technology for powering wirelessly connected sensors in Internet of Things applications. The goal of the project has been to miniaturize the technology and to study how choice of material and components affect the relation between size and performance. The overall aim of the project has been to enable a possibility to better meet the customers´ requirements of smaller products that performs equally good or better.
Expected results and effects
The project has been successful and has exceeded expectations in terms of e.g. the accumulated knowledge and the performance of the prototypes that has been produced and tested. Existing prototypes have been reduced to 20 % of its original size and are designed in accordance with customer requirements. Next step will be to, in collaboration with the customer, continue to work towards a commercialization of the technology in the current application, and to extend the project to also include other areas of use.
Planned approach and implementation
The project has been conducted in short and fast iterations in close kooperation with the customer. For principle verification, testbeds have been developed to efficiently test different design koncepts in-house. In this process, 3D printing and other additive manufacturing methods have been used to be able to fit in as many iterations as possible during a short period of time. The development process has been relatively open and the specification has been revised during the course of the project.