Sustainable Development Goals/SDG7/Energy Supply

Learners can approach the topic of energy supply from different angles:

  • Type of Clean Energy that is used by mobile devices, tools
    • Wind Energy
    • Solar Energy
    • Wave Energy
    • Kinetic Energy (e.g. of Water in dams)

Learning Tasks

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  • (Piezoelectricity) Explore the concept of Piezoelectricity[1].
    • explain how this concept can be used to charge mobile devices (e.g. by harvesting the energy, when we are walking or moving arms/legs),
    • explain, where would you attach the piezoelectric charger to your body (e.g. arm, legs, in shows, ...).
    • define, what is necessary for a convenient use (e.g. attach the charger to jacket, to shoes.
  • (Wearable Abulatory Devices) Wearable medical devices are used for ambulatory monitoring e.g. of heart beat/ECG, blood pressure, ....
    • Explain the medical benefits and challenges and limitations for patients and staff members of a health care facility if they apply permanent monitoring of health parameters with mobile devices (e.g. rural and remote areas in developing countries)!
    • What are the benefits, challenges and limitations of textile and flexible technologies for ambulatory monitoring[2]

See also

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= References

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  1. Navas, J., Bove, T., Cobos, J. A., Nuno, F., & Brebol, K. (2001). Miniaturised battery charger using piezoelectric transformers. In Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 2001. APEC 2001. Sixteenth Annual IEEE (Vol. 1, pp. 492-496). IEEE.
  2. Dittmar, A., Meffre, R., De Oliveira, F., Gehin, C., & Delhomme, G. (2005). Wearable medical devices using textile and flexible technologies for ambulatory monitoring. In Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the (pp. 7161-7164). IEEE.