The project developed a methodology for identifying suitable energy harvesting sources in industrial processes by categorizing sensors and processes, defining evaluation criteria, creating a questionnaire, and selecting an evaluation system. The methodology facilitates initial high-level assessments of energy sources and IIoT system requirements using a scoring system to estimate the feasibility of energy harvesting for optimization. It was validated with a test use case.
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| Published | 2022 |
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| Project Type | ICNAP Research/Transfer Project |
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The objective of this project was to develop a simple methodology for the identification of suitable energy harvesting sources for industrial processes. This provides a tool for evaluating energy harvesting use cases before implementing them. To define the methodology the following steps were taken:
The methodology aims to obtain the relevant information for an initial assessment at a high-level without going into too much technical detail. On one hand it focuses on the investigation of the energy source available in the process and on the other hand on the investigation of the necessary IIoT System and its requirements. To do this, several questions are asked and the answers to each are directly assessed with a score. For the assessment of the energy harvesting use case, the evaluation of energy sources and the IIoT system are compared with each other. This allows an estimation of whether it is a use case that can be optimized and powered by energy harvesting. To validate the methodology a test use case was applied.
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