Piezoelectric-Based Energy Harvesting for Smart City Application

Ahmad, Mahmoud Al; Allataifeh, Areen

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-1741-4_23

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“…Several studies have explored the utilization of piezoelectric energy harvesting in public spaces and smart city contexts. Al Ahmad and Allataifeh [76] discussed the latest developments in piezoelectric energy harvesting concepts tailored for smart city implementations. Elahi et al [77] explored the mechanisms of piezoelectric-based energy harvesters (PEHs), and pointed out that PEHs help decrease reliance on batteries, leading to the optimization of structural weight.…”

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The Future Design of Smart Energy Systems with Energy Flexumers: A Constructive Literature Review

Hu,

Bui

2024

Energies

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From powering our homes to driving our economies, energy lies at the heart of humanity’s complex challenges in the modern era. This paper reviews the evolution of smart energy systems, examining their technological advancements and societal implications while proposing a future design framework emphasizing four key pillars: holistic resource optimization, adaptive intelligence, environmental harmony, and human-centered design. While they offer numerous benefits, such as enhanced energy efficiency and reduced carbon emissions, smart energy systems also face challenges. These include cybersecurity risks, the complexity of integrating diverse energy sources seamlessly, high upfront costs, and potential compatibility issues arising from evolving technologies. Overcoming these challenges will be crucial for unleashing the full potential of smart energy systems and facilitating their global adoption. Abundant opportunities for further research and development exist in this domain, awaiting exploration and advancement.

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Section: Holistic Resource Optimizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Future Design of Smart Energy Systems with Energy Flexumers: A Constructive Literature Review

Hu,

Bui

2024

Energies

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“…Al Ahmad and Allataifeh (2018) provided by creating a smart city using piezoelectric energy harvesting. Piezoelectric materials convert mechanical force (vibration energy) into electrical energy.…”

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Green energy harvesting strategies on edge-based urban computing in sustainable internet of things

Osman

et al. 2021

Sustainable Cities and Society

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“…For energy accumulation (and electricity network stabilization), most smart city solutions such as e-mobility rely on lithium-ion battery storage devices, which are treated with REEs such as lanthanum and cerium [43][44][45]. CRMs such as silicon and graphite are needed for this type of battery construction [46].…”

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“Smart Is Not Smart Enough!” Anticipating Critical Raw Material Use in Smart City Concepts: The Example of Smart Grids

David

Koch

2019

Sustainability

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Globally emerging smart city concepts aim to make resource production and allocation in urban areas more efficient, and thus more sustainable through new sociotechnical innovations such as smart grids, smart meters, or solar panels. While recent critiques of smart cities have focused on data security, surveillance, or the influence of corporations on urban development, especially with regard to intelligent communication technologies (ICT), issues related to the material basis of smart city technologies and the interlinked resource problems have largely been ignored in the scholarly literature and in urban planning. Such problems pertain to the provision and recovery of critical raw materials (CRM) from anthropogenic sources like scrap metal repositories, which have been intensely studied during the last few years. To address this gap in the urban planning literature, we link urban planning literatures on smart cities with literatures on CRM mining and recovery from scrap metals. We find that underestimating problems related to resource provision and recovery might lead to management and governance challenges in emerging smart cities, which also entail ethical issues. To illustrate these problems, we refer to the smart city energy domain and explore the smart city-CRM-energy nexus from the perspectives of the respective literatures. We show that CRMs are an important foundation for smart city energy applications such as energy production, energy distribution, and energy allocation. Given current trends in smart city emergence, smart city concepts may potentially foster primary extraction of CRMs, which is linked to considerable environmental and health issues. While the problems associated with primary mining have been well-explored in the literature, we also seek to shed light on the potential substitution and recovery of CRMs from anthropogenic raw material deposits as represented by installed digital smart city infrastructures. Our central finding is that the current smart city literature and contemporary urban planning do not address these issues. This leads to the paradox that smart city concepts are supporting the CRM dependencies that they should actually be seeking to overcome. Discussion on this emerging issue between academics and practitioners has nevertheless not taken place. We address these issues and make recommendations.

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Piezoelectric-Based Energy Harvesting for Smart City Application

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

The Future Design of Smart Energy Systems with Energy Flexumers: A Constructive Literature Review

The Future Design of Smart Energy Systems with Energy Flexumers: A Constructive Literature Review

Green energy harvesting strategies on edge-based urban computing in sustainable internet of things

“Smart Is Not Smart Enough!” Anticipating Critical Raw Material Use in Smart City Concepts: The Example of Smart Grids

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