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This paper presents a new pavement energy harvest system that was developed in Portugal by the Waydip Company in collaboration with the Pavement Mechanics Laboratory of the University of Coimbra. After carrying out testing in the laboratory on one Waynergy People prototype module, 25 Waynergy People modules were set up in the entrance to a shopping centre in Lisbon, Portugal. The electrical energy generated by the Waynergy People pilot plant was 15,525.0 J or 4.31 Wh. This energy was harvested from 2,070 people walking over the system, with each person averaging 5 steps, which means that the average energy generated per step was 1.50 J on each module. We recorded a peak value of 4.20 J, which is equal to the energy produced by a person weighing 100 kg jumping. The maximum energy generated during one day was 126,540.0 J, or 35.2 Wh, and the average energy generated per day over the four months of the Waynergy People pilot was 90,417.0 J or 25.1 Wh.
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The present research work has been carried out in the framework of project PAVENERGY – Pavement Energy Harvest Solutions (PTDC/ECM-TRA/3423/2014), co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016676) through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors (COMPETE) and by national funds through the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). The author Francisco Duarte is also grateful to the FCT for the financial support provided to this study through Grant SFRH/BD/95018/2013. The author Adelino Ferreira is also grateful to the ACIV for its financial contribution for the presentation of this paper in the International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies.
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Ferreira, A., Duarte, F. (2020). Waynergy People – Human Interaction with an Emerging Pavement Energy Harvesting Technology. In: Ahram, T., Taiar, R., Colson, S., Choplin, A. (eds) Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies. IHIET 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1018. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25629-6_139
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