GENERATION: Self Powered IoT for People and Planet

一代：造福人类和地球的自供电物联网

• 批准号: EP/W025396/1
• 负责人: Matthew John Carnie
• 金额: $ 94.63万
• 依托单位: Swansea University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FW025396%2F1
• 关键词: GENERATION; Self; Powered; IoT; People

Interconnected technologies, sometimes referred to as the internet-of-things (IoT) are now ubiquitous in society. The energy consumption of such devices is predicted to be over 1100 TWh yr-1 by 2025 and it has been recognised that smart solutions, such as energy harvesting, need to be developed, to make the operation of such devices more sustainable. Light, having the highest power density of any ambient energy source, can be exploited using photovoltaics, designed with specialist materials to extract as much energy as possible from ambient light sources. The rate of adoption of IoT technologies has been extraordinarily rapid. This favours affluent early adopters of such technologies but could leave certain marginalised and excluded groups (e.g. older persons and those in poverty) behind. GENERATION will assemble a multidisciplinary team of Materials Chemists, Electronic Engineers, Human Computer Interaction experts and Social Scientists, to design, build, and evaluate; sustainable, self-powered interactive technologies, specifically with older persons in mind, so that they are not excluded from the digital future, and not lost in the digital divide. The work will challenge the multidisciplinary team in new ways. Materials Scientists and Engineers rarely have the opportunity to consider first-hand, the social consequences of the technologies they develop, or how those technologies could benefit a marginalised population. Social Scientists and Human Computer Interaction experts will have the opportunity to design and evaluate, the most cutting edge of self-powered IoT technologies. The technologies will be developed via a series of community co-design workshops run with a diverse cohort of older people. The devices will be built by our team of engineers and scientists and will be evaluated in the Swansea University AWEN Institute Living Laboratory, a space dedicated to co-producing products, services and environments for an increasing older population, as well as in SPECIFIC-IKC's "buildings as power stations", buildings which generate and store their own energy. In addition to the inclusive, self-powered, digital technologies developed, our findings from the community co-design and evaluation workshops will be summarised in a report made freely available to third sector organisations and governmental and non-governmental bodies to inform and make recommendations on reducing the digital divide for an ageing population.

互连技术，有时称为物联网 (IoT)，现在在社会中无处不在。预计到 2025 年，此类设备的能耗将超过 1100 TWh/1，人们认识到需要开发能量收集等智能解决方案，以使此类设备的运行更具可持续性。光是任何环境能源中功率密度最高的，可以使用光伏发电来利用，光伏发电采用特殊材料设计，可以从环境光源中提取尽可能多的能量。物联网技术的采用速度非常快。这有利于富裕的早期采用者，但可能会将某些边缘化和被排斥的群体（例如老年人和贫困人口）抛在后面。 GENERATION将组建一个由材料化学家、电子工程师、人机交互专家和社会科学家组成的多学科团队来设计、建造和评估；可持续、自供电的互动技术，特别是考虑到老年人，使他们不会被排除在数字未来之外，也不会迷失在数字鸿沟中。这项工作将以新的方式挑战多学科团队。材料科学家和工程师很少有机会直接考虑他们开发的技术的社会后果，或者这些技术如何使边缘化人群受益。社会科学家和人机交互专家将有机会设计和评估最前沿的自供电物联网技术。这些技术将通过与不同的老年人群体举办的一系列社区共同设计研讨会来开发。这些设备将由我们的工程师和科学家团队建造，并将在斯旺西大学 AWEN 研究所生活实验室以及 SPECIFIC-IKC 的实验室进行评估，该实验室致力于为不断增长的老年人口共同生产产品、服务和环境。 “建筑物作为发电站”，即能够产生并储存自身能量的建筑物。除了开发的包容性、自供电数字技术之外，我们在社区共同设计和评估研讨会上的研究结果还将总结在一份报告中，免费提供给第三部门组织以及政府和非政府机构，以提供信息并提出建议缩小人口老龄化带来的数字鸿沟。

项目成果

Light power resource availability for energy harvesting photovoltaics for self-powered IoT

用于自供电物联网的能量收集光伏的光功率资源可用性

• DOI: 10.1088/2515-7655/ad1764
• 发表时间: 2023-12-20
• 期刊: Journal of Physics: Energy
• 作者: Krishna Seunarine;Zaid Haymoor;Michael Spence;G. Burwell;Austin M. Kay;P. Meredith;Ardalan Armin;M. Carnie
• 通讯作者: M. Carnie