Power harvesting for railroad track health monitoring using piezoelectric and inductive devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6928, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nelson, Carl A ^a   Platt, Stephen R ^a   Albrecht, Dave ^a   Kamarajugadda, Vedvyas ^a   Fateh, Mahmood ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed sensor networks; Piezoelectric device; Power scavenging; Voice coil device

Indexed keywords

POWER SCAVENGING; VOICE COIL DEVICES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; RAILROAD TRACKS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

POWER GENERATION;

EID: 44349136370     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.775884     Document Type: Conference Paper

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