Every year at LOPEC, the trade fair for printed electronics, the "OE-A Competition" honours innovative products in the field of flexible, organic and printed electronics.
At this year's LOPEC, JOANNEUM RESEARCH MATERIALS and its partners won the category "Best Publicly Funded Project Demonstrator" for the "Smart Wheel", successfully developed within the SYMPHONY project.
This is the second time in a row that we have been honoured with this award. Read more about last year's winner here.
About the project
As part of the H2020 SYMPHONY project, we are researching energy-autonomous sensor solutions. The energy required to power the sensors and transmit data is harvested from the mechanical motion and vibration of the environment and converted into electrical energy using printed piezoelectric elements. This self-powered sensor technology is of interest when sensors need to be installed in places that are difficult to access and where the use of batteries requires a high level of maintenance. This is the case in the example applications of the SYMPHONY research project: in the inner tube of a bicycle, on the rotor blade of a wind turbine and in a smart floor.
