Design and Development of RF Energy Harvesting Module for Low Power Device using Propulsion Concepts in Renewable Energy

Abstract

Energy harvesting is the need of the hour to operate small, portable and low power electronic devices for self-reliance. We focus our research on radio frequency energy harvesting. We have designed micro strip patch antenna to operate at 2.4GHz. We have analysed the capture of ambient radio frequency energy at various physical locations. We have successfully demonstrated the RF energy harvesting technique proposed for operating devices like LED, scientific calculator and battery charging. In this paper we have verified the RF energy harvesting technique through Hardware implementation.