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Performance evaluation of the energy harvester

The deliverable, that relies mainly on the paper disseminating the results of the GOLDFISH project which is being presented at the SPIE Microtechnologies Europe conference in Barcelona, Spain, includes the results of the tests and experiments concerning the energy harvester performed in T7.3. It describes the functional tests performed on a final versions of the underwater hydro-generator and piezoelectric eel energy harvesters with corresponding management electronics. The set-ups used to perform the measurements are described. The obtained results allow establishing that, by using the proposed miniaturized hydro-generator harvester, not only the energy needs of the measurement and controller boards as it was initially planned in the project can be covered, but the energy of the complete sensor cluster is covered as well. A real sensor cluster has thus been successfully powered during the final river experiments in Columbia.

energy harvesting ; water polution ; underwater turbine ; piezoelectric eel ; experimental assessment

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