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Oct 2026
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Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering
JSPM Bhivrabai Sawant polytechnic wagholi pune
Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering
JSPM Bhivrabai Sawant polytechnic wagholi pune
Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering
JSPM Bhivrabai Sawant polytechnic wagholi pune
Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering
JSPM Bhivrabai Sawant polytechnic wagholi pune
Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering
JSPM Bhivrabai Sawant polytechnic wagholi pune
Soldiers on foot rely on radios, navigation aids, and sensors powered by batteries, and each spare cell adds to the load carried and to resupply needs. This paper presents the design of a boot-integrated system that recovers part of the mechanical energy of walking and combines it with wearable sensing. Piezoelectric transducers under the heel and forefoot convert footfall pressure into an alternating voltage, which is rectified and conditioned before storage in a rechargeable lithium-ion or lithium-polymer cell, with an optional supercapacitor as a buffer. An Arduino Nano or ESP32 controller reads an MPU6050 inertial sensor and a pressure sensor, and an LED indicates when the harvested voltage crosses a threshold; GPS, temperature sensing, and wireless telemetry are optional extensions. An electromagnetic generator is considered only as an alternative. The paper describes the subsystems, the separate energy and data paths, and the supplied sensor-reading program, and lists assumptions to be checked before the code is used with specific hardware. Quantitative performance has not been measured, so a test plan for harvested energy, storage, sensor consistency, and durability is proposed. The design is a documented starting point for a prototype that supplements, rather than replaces, conventional power sources.
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This paper has presented the design of army footwear combining piezoelectric energy harvesting with an inertial and pressure sensing system. The architecture separates the energy path from the data path, and components are classed as core, optional, or alternative. A review of the supplied program found that it reads piezoelectric voltage, a pressure sensor, and MPU6050 acceleration, but does not implement charging control, GPS, temperature sensing, step counting or wireless telemetry. The potential contribution is a documented starting point for a prototype that supplements conventional power for low-power electronics.
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