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.

互联技术，有时被称为物联网(IoT)，现在社会上无处不在。预计到2025年，这类设备的能源消耗将超过1100太瓦时/年-1，人们已经认识到，需要开发智能解决方案，如能源收集，以使此类设备的运行更可持续。光的功率密度是所有环境能源中最高的，可以使用光伏来开发，这种光伏采用专门的材料设计，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这类技术的人，但可能会把某些被边缘化和被排斥的群体(例如老年人和贫困者)抛在后面。世代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，以设计、建立和评估可持续的、自给自足的互动技术，特别是考虑到老年人，使他们不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第一手考虑他们开发的技术的社会后果，或者这些技术如何造福于被边缘化的人群。社会科学家和人机交互专家将有机会设计和评估最尖端的自给式物联网技术。这些技术将通过一系列社区联合设计研讨会进行开发，这些研讨会将与不同的老年人群体一起举办。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研究所生活实验室进行评估，这是一个致力于为日益增长的老年人口共同生产产品、服务和环境的空间，以及特定的-IKC的“作为发电站的建筑”，即产生和存储自身能量的建筑。除了发展包容、自给自足的数码科技外，我们从社区共同设计和评估工作坊所得的结果，将会在一份报告中总结，供第三部门组织及政府和非政府机构免费索取，以便就如何缩小人口老化的数码鸿沟提供资料和提出建议。

项目成果

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

• DOI: 10.1088/2515-7655/ad1764
• 发表时间: 2023-12
• 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