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International Journal of Advancements in Research & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, April-2014

ISS N 2278-7763

Power Generation Footstep*

Shiraz Afzal, Farrukh hafeez
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Electronic Engineering Department, Sir Syed university of Engineering and technology , Karachi, Pakistan; 2 Electrical and electronic engineering
Department, Jubail Industrial College, Jubail, Saudi Arabia.
Email: safzal@ssuet.edu.pk

ABSTRACT
This paper is all about generating electricity when people walk on the Floor. Think about the forces you exert which is wasted
when a person walks. The idea is to convert the weight energy to electrical energy The Power Generating floor intends to translate the kinetic energy to the electrical power. Energy Crisis is the main issue of world these days. The motto of this research
work is to face this crisis somehow. Though it wont meet the requirement of electricity but as a matter of fact if we ar e able to
design a power generating floor that can produce 100W on just 12 steps, then for 120 steps we can produce 1000 Watt and if we
install such type of 100 floors with this system then it can produce 1MegaWatt. Which itself is an achievement to make it significant.
Keywords : Electrical Energy, Energy Crisis, Kinetic Energy, Power Generating Floor, weight energy.

1 INTRODUCTION

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HIS manuscript decribes about generating the electrical

energy by using the weight energy, one can simply shocks
by knowing how much energy a person can have by simply walking on the floor with a normal speed. as peoples steps
(thousands upon thousands a day) utilize and channel kinetic
energy too [1].
Whenever a person walks, manages to lose energy towards
the floor by means of influence, vibration, and audio and so
on, a result of the move of excess weight to the floor. That
energy may be used and converted into electrical energy.The
actual electro-kinetic floor is really an approach to making
electrical energy by using the kinetic energy of the person who
walks on the floor.
The power floor is not like traditional floor. The energy
produced by this floor will be environment friendly without
having smog. Producing this type of energy will be cost effective also.The power floor does not need any fuel or perhaps
any sort of energy resource, simply making use of kinetic
energy. Based upon your excess weight from a person moving
on the floor

2 BACKGROUND
Earlier various researchers had work on the conversion of dynamic energy to electrical by human locomotion Jeff Kr upenkin and Ashley Taylor proposed a new technique called reverse electro-wetting in which motion of conductive liquid on
dielectric coated conductive substrate causes to create electrical energy [2], so whenever there is any vibration on the upper
plate due to human locomotion or by any mean could result in
producing electrical energy as shown in following figure 1

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Fig. 1. Electro-wetting method

Scientist of the hull university also worked on transforming

man motion in to electrical energy and get positive results.
Various experiments had made in japan also to harnesses
energy from footsteps.
They installed the special flooring tiles on the Tokyo japan
busiest stations and observe that an average person weighting
60 kg can generate 0.1 watt in single second.A similar
approach with different mechanism for generation of
electricity from footstep is proposed by Tom jose V [3]. He
used rick and pinion gear system with dynamo fitting with its
gear mechanism as shown in following figure 2.

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International Journal of Advancements in Research & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, April-2014

ISS N 2278-7763

Fig. 2. Dynamo, Rack and Pinion gear w orking mechanism

Fig. 2. Dynamo, Rack and Pinion gear w orking mechanism

3 OPERATIONAL D ESCRIPTION

In this project a gear system is attached with flywheel which

causes to rotate the dynamo as the tile on the deck is pressed
The power that is created is saved in the batteries In addition
we will be able to monitor and control the amount of electricity generated as shown in the figure 2.
When an individual passes it push the tile on the
ground surface which turn the shaft beneath the tile, turn is
limited by clutch bearing which is underpinned by holders.
Primary shaft is rotate approx. twice by a single tile push. The
movement of the prevailing shaft turn the gearbox shaft which
builds it 15 times (1:15) then its movement is smoothen by the
help of fly wheel which temporary store the movement, which
is convey to the DC generator ( it generates 12V 40 amp at
1000 rpm).
Energy generated is stored in the batteries , an inverter circuitry is implemented to convert the DC to AC ,so that
we can sprint the home electrical load , Further a microcontroller based home mechanizat ion framework is imp lemented wh ich
control rooms prudently.
Ent ire framework is put on the iron bars called channels. Our entire pro ject physical system diagram is shown in following figure 3

Here a same approach as was anticipated by Tom jose V [3]

but different mechanism is proposed as shown in following
figure 3.

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Fig. 3. Physical System

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4 APPLICAT ION

3 S YSTEM D ESIGN FLOW

The following figure 4 describes the system design Flow
while figure 5 describe the block diagram of our system.

This can be implemented on railway station to generate electric power.

In bus station.
In car parking system.
In Airports.
In Lift system.
In car lifting system.
In street lights
Electric escalators

5 CONCLUSION
As a fact only 11% of renewable energy contributes to our pr imary energy. If this project is deployed then not only we can
overcome the energy crises problem but this also contributes to
create a healthy global environmental change.

REFERENCES
[1] S. Whaley, D. English, E. Hu, P. Barbara, and A. Belcher, Nature,
pp 665, 2000.
[2] Tom krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor Reverse electrowetting as a new
approach to high power energy harvesting Nature Communication,
pp 1-7, August 2011.
[3] Tom Jose V, Binoy Boban, Sijo M T, Electricity Generation from foot
steps; A generative Energy Resources International Journal of Scien
tific and research publication, pp 1-3, March 2013
[4] Marc A. Rose, Engineering Health and Safety Module and

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Fig. 4. System Design Flow

Shiraz Afzal is a full time fac ulty member of

SS UET. He received his B.E. degree in Elec tro nics from S ir Syed University of Engineering and
Tec hnology Karachi, Pakistan and M.E degree in
Electronics, specialization in Mic ro -System design from NED University of Engineering &
Technology Karachi, Pakistan in 2006 and 2012
respectively. His research interest inc ludes Microelectronic circuit design. He is a member of
PEC.

Farrukh Hafeez is a full time fac ulty member of

Jubail Industrial Co llege. He received his B.E.
degree in Elec tronics from NED University of
Engineering and technology Karac hi, Pakistan
and M.E degree in Elec tronics, spec ialization in
Industrial control system from NED University of
Engineering & Tec hnology Karac hi, Pakistan in
2005 and 2009 respectively. His researc h interest
control system design and applic ations.

Fig. 1. System Block Diagram

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