The Sustainable Energy Floor is the world’s most efficient energy converting pedestrian floor system which can be used in pavements and high footfall areas like airports, sport arenas, shopping malls and railway stations.
With the Sustainable Energy Floor,we take the energy generating floor to the next level. By means of an electro-mechanical system the Sustainable Energy Floor converts kinetic energy of pedestrians footsteps to electrical power. The technology we use was the first on the market and is patented in Europe and the United States.
The Sustainable Energy Floor is a fully recyclable pedestrian floor which can be used in pavements and high footfall areas, such as sport arenas, airports, railway stations, shopping malls, office and apartment blocks. This floor enables people to generate their own local clean energy to power street lights and signing systems. The Sustainable Energy Floor can be a key element in smart grids, integrated with solar and wind power.
The floor modules(tiles) flex slightly when stepped on. Inside each tile is an electromechanical system, which transforms the small vertical movement produced by pedestrians into a rotating movement that drives a generator. Each module by the size of 115 mm can produce up to 30 watt of continuous output. Typical power output for continuous stepping by a person lies between 1 and 10W nominal output per module.
Pavegen provides a technology that enables flooring to harness the energy of footsteps. It can be used indoors or outdoors in high traffic areas, and generates electricity from pedestrian footfall using an electromagnetic induction process and flywheel energy storage. The technology is best suited to transport hubs where a large flow of people will pass over it. The largest deployment the company has done so far is in a football pitch in Rio de Janeiro to help power the floodlights around the pitch. It also currently has a temporary installation outside London’s Canary Wharf station powering street lights.
Italian startup ,Underground Power is exploring the potential of kinetic energy in roadways. It has developed a technology called Lybra, a tyre-like rubber paving that converts the kinetic energy produced by moving vehicles into electrical energy. Developed from a principle that, a braking car dissipates kinetic energy. The cutting-edge technology is able to collect, convert this energy into electricity and pass it on to the electricity grid. In addition to improving road safety, the device upgrades and promotes sustainability of road traffic.
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