Development of footstep based power generation using piezo electric sensor with Arduino microcontroller

In the current situation, the need for energy is rising and the energy resources available are insufficient for future generations. The urgent need is to develop a cost effective, pollution free, inexhaustible energy resource to meet the rising demand. The most prevalent human activity is walking and they spend energy on the ground which is wasting. One of the solutions may be, convert footsteps energy into electrical energy using piezoelectric sensor for storage and real time utilization. The output of piezoelectric sensors generates output energy in the form of alternating current. In this work, piezoelectric sensors are used to create electricity through footsteps as a source of renewable energy that will be acquired while walking on a certain arrangement, such as stepping foot on a piezo tile. The electrical energy is created by footsteps gathered by sensors and transformed into an electrical charge by a piezo-electric transducer. The sensors are positioned in such a way that the highest output voltage is generated. This output is sent to our monitoring circuitry, which is an Arduino microcontroller-based circuit that allows the user to monitor the voltage and charge a battery, and this power source has a wide range of uses. Further, sensor output is transformed to cloud platform.