Fraunhofer IPMSEnergy power plant in the sole of the shoe

The combination of energy generation and wearables forms a self-sufficient system that is used in fitness gadgets, for example, to track speed or position data. So-called energy converters are required to draw the energy for wearables from the energy of human movement. These must be as efficient as possible in order to supply increasingly sophisticated electronics with sufficient energy. Researchers at the Fraunhofer IPMS in Dresden are working on special energy converters that ...