Designing a Platform for Energy Recovery and Monitoring in Building Applications

Energy efficiency measures are pivotal in addressing the high energy consumption and gas emissions of the building sector. Moreover, increasing attention is given to indoor environmental quality to ensure comfort and healthy conditions for the occupants. Sustainable and energy-efficient solutions are needed to avoid the extensive use of battery-based wireless network sensors. In this work, a platform has been conceived and designed to recover unused indoor energy sources and convert them into useful power for environmental sensors to monitor buildings. A preliminary energy analysis of the main components of such a platform has been carried out to demonstrate the feasibility of the system.