A Project Report on

Footstep Power Generation using

Piezoelectric Sensor
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of degree in

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
in
ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGG.

By
Suyash Saxena-1508231076
Rohit Arora-1508231054
Stuti goel-1508231071

Under the guidance of

Project Guide Project Coordinator

Mrs.Ruchi Varshney Dr. Amit Saxena
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor

Department OF ELECTRONICS &

COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

MORADABAD INSTITUTE OF TEHCNOLOGY

RAM GANGA VIHAR, PHASE-2, MORADABAD- 244001 (U.P.)

Session:2018-2019

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 DECLARATION

We, Suyash Saxena , Rohit Arora & Stuti Goel certify that the work
embodied in this Project Report is my/our own bonafide work carried
out by me/us under the supervision of Mrs.Ruchi Varshney in
session 2018-2019 at Moradabad Institute of Technology, Moradabad.
The matter embodied in this report has not been submitted elsewhere
for the award of any other degree/diploma.We declare that we have
faithfully acknowledged, given credit to and referred to the researchers
work wherever their works have been cited in the text and the body of
the report. We further certify that I/we have not willfully lifted up
some other’s work, para, text, data, results, etc. reported in the
journals, books, magazines, reports, dissertations, theses, etc., or
available at web-sites and have included them in this report and cited
as our own work.

Signature:
Name: Suyash Saxena, Rohit Arora & Stuti Goel
Roll no.:1508231076,1508231054,1508231071
Date:
Place:Moradabad

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 Moradabad Institute of Technology
Department of Electronics & Communication Engg.
MORADABAD-244001
Session 2018–2019
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that Suyash Saxena, Rohit Arora & Stuti Goel
Student(s) of B.Tech. Final year, Electronics and Communication
branch, Moradabad Institute of Technology, Moradabad have
successfully completed their project entitled “Footstep Power
Generation using Piezoelectric Sensor” under our
guidance and supervision. While gleaming the required information
and styling the report they were found pretty sincere and devoted. The
report produced them is completely authentic proof of their dedicated
efforts. The assistance and help taken during the course of the work
has been duly acknowledged and the source of literature amply
recorded.

PROJECT GUIDE PROJECT INCHARGE

Ms.Ruchi Varshney Dr. Amit Saxena

(Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)
E&C Engg. Deptt. E&C Engg. Deptt.

Dr. Kshitij Shinghal

Head of Department
Electronics & Communication Engg. Department
Moradabad Institute of Technology, Moradabad

DATE: SEAL:

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

With immense pleasure, we would like to express our deeper sense of

gratitude to Dr. Kshitij Shinghal (HOD–E&C Engg.) and Project
Incharge Dr. Amit Saxena (Assistant Professor, E&C Deptt.)
Moradabad Institute of Technology, Moradabad for their strenuous
guidance and giving us an opportunity to carry out our project work in
the institute.
We particularly want to express our thanks and respect to our Project
Guide Ms.Ruchi Varshney(Assistant Prof. E&C Deptt.), M.I.T.
Moradabad for inspiring us and giving us all the valuable suggestion
from time to time. His sincerity, thoroughness and perseverance have
been a constant source of inspiration for us. It is only his cognizant
efforts that our endeavors have seen light of the day.
We also do not like to miss the opportunity to acknowledge the
contribution of all the Faculty Members & Staff of the department
for their kind assistance and cooperation during the development of
our project.
We are also grateful to our friends for their cooperation and
encouragement throughout the presentation of this project. This
project which is one of the most significant part before the successful
completion of Engineering. Our most humble regards to our parents
for extending full cooperation. We are very grateful to the almighty
God who is source of energy within us.

Signature…………………….
Name-Suyash Saxena,Rohit Arora & Stuti Goel
Roll no-1508231076,1508231054 & 1508231071
Date-

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER TITLE PAGE

NO. NO.
DECLARATION Ii
CERTIFICATE Iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS V
ABSTRACT viii
LIST OF FIGURES Ix
LIST OF TABLES X
1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 CONVENTIONAL ENERGY SOURCES 5
1.2 ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES 5
1.3 EXISTING SYSTEM 7
1.4 PROPOSED SYSTEM 7
1.5 OBJECTIVES 8
1.6 Overview and depiction of Proposed
8
system.

2 LITERATURE SURVEY 12
2.1 Power Generation in automobile 12
suspension system
2.2 Generation of Electrical Energy 13
from Foot Step Using Rack and Pinion
Mechanism
2.3 Electrical Power Generation Using 13

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 Foot Step for Urban Area Energy
Applications
2.4 Power generation through step 13
2.5 Power Generation Footstep 14
2.6 Power Generation from Steps 14
2.7 A Shoe-Embedded Piezoelectric 15
Energy Harvester for Wearable Sensors
2.8 Footstep Power production using 16
Piezoelectric Sensors
3 IMPLEMENTATION & DESIGN 18
3.1 Sensor 18
3.1.1 Piezoelectric Sensor 18
3.2 Battery 20
3.3 Powerbank for Power Storage 22
3.4 Rectifier 23
3.5 LED Strip 23
3.6 A.C Ripple Neutralizer 24
3.7 Voltage Regulator 24
3.8 Unidirectional Current Controller 25
3.9 CD4047 26
3.10 MOSFET IRF540 31
3.11 ADC 32
3.12 Inverter 34
3.13 Voltage Sampler 36
3.14 Power Circuit 39

4 RESULTS & DISCUSSION 42

4.1 Simulated Circuit 42

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 4.2 Simulation Results 42
4.3 Pics of working hardware in 44
different modes
5 CONCLUSION & FUTURE SCOPE 45
5.1 Advantages 46
5.2 Disadvantages 47
5.3 Applications 47

REFERENCES 48
APPENDIX A 49
APPENDIX B 50
APPENDIX C 51
APPENDIX D 52
APPENDIX E 53

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 ABSTRACT

The Footstep Power Generation, here we proposed an advanced

footstep power generator system that uses the piezo electric sensors to
generate power through footsteps as a source of renewable energy that
we can obtain while walking on a certain arrangement like stepping
foot on a piezo tiles. This project describes the use of piezoelectric
materials in order to harvest energy from people walking vibration for
generating and accumulating the energy. The basic working principle
of “footstep power generation system” isbased on piezo electric
sensors. When the flooring is engineered with piezo electric
technology, the electrical energy produced by the pressure is captured
by floor sensors and converted to an electricalcharge by piezo-electric
transducer. These sensors are placed in such a way that it generates
maximum output voltage. This output is provided to our monitoring
circuitry which is microcontroller based circuit that allows user to
monitor the voltage and charges a battery, and this power source has
many applications. Our project model is cost effective and easy to
implement.

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 LIST OF FIGURES
Figure No. Details Page No.
1.1 Block diagram of proposed system 8
1.2 Types of super capacitors 10
3.1 Block diagram of Foot Step Power 18
Generation using Piezoelectric
3.2 Piezoelectric Crystal 19
3.3 Piezoelectric Sensor Testing 20
3.4 Lead Acid Battery 20
3.5 Series Connection 22
3.6 Parallel Connection 22
3.7 Powerbank 22
3.8 Rectifier Circuit 23
3.9 LED Strip 24
3.10 Capacitor filter 24
3.11 Voltage regulator circuit 25
3.12 Voltage regulator 25
3.13 Pin diagram of CD4047 26
3.14 CD4047 in Monostable mode 30
3.15 CD4047 in Astable mode 31
3.16 Specifications of IRF540 32
3.17 Pin Diagram of ADC 0808 34
3.18 Inverter Circuit Diagram 36
3.19 Sample And Hold Circuit 37
3.20 Simplest Sample-And-Hold Circuit 37
In MOS Technology.
3.21 Piezocermaic material 39
3.22 Testing of piezoelectric material 39
3.23 The schematic of flexible energy 40
harvester
3.24 Schematic and physical photograph 41
of the power management circuit.
4.1 Stimulated Circuit Diagram 42
4.2 Illustration of Testing Tool 43
4.3 Hardware Pics 43

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 LIST OF TABLES
Table No. Details Page No.
4.1 Flow Testing 44
4.2 Voltage Testing 44