The Hybrid Micro-Energy Harvesting, and Energy Saving Using a Newwireless Control Technique for Adjusting Household Cold/Heat in a Smart Room

摘要

The laboratory heating thermoelectric generator (TEG) combines the phase change material (PCM) via solar panels, to achieve the integration of the electricity generation and adjusting indoor air temperature of buildings, to create "perpetually" powered sensor nodes that enable to harvest of required energy from heat, vibration, thermoelectric, rotating energy, passive flapping foils, piezoelectric and even RF signals and so on. A simulated smart room coupling the thermoelectric and latent heat effects, call thermoelectric generators (TEG) combined with phase change materials (PCMs)(TEG/PCM), This electricity generation can be used to actuate the fan for adjusting household cool/heat air as well in a 6.5m × 4.5m × 3.2m smart building. Comparisons of the power consumption with/without installation the TEG/PCM module, and then coupling or without coupling a new wireless "on-off" control technique to sustain a comfortable indoor temperature 22°C ±1.5°C is the major objective of this study.