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ELECTRIC ECOFLOOR
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INTRODUCTION:
Scientists discovered ways to produce electric energy in large amounts in order to make heat, light and motion. These discoveries have improved our lives greatly and for many of us it would be difficult to picture what life would be like without electricity. So we need to conserve electricity by avoiding use up of vital natural resources that are in short supply. By conserving electricity, we can save energy and environment in a single shot.
So here we came up with one of the idea which already existed and that is the generation of electricity from the floor by the stress created by the mechanical energy. And we call it has Electric Ecofloor. As our discussion goes on further we discuss much about piezoelectric effect, piezoelectric material etc.
HISTORY
ECO-ECOFLOOR:
The club4Climate project is London’s first taste of eco-friendly , making people happy in the knowledge booty shaking can generate 60% of the energy needed to run the building. The venue’s most exciting innovation is the piezoelectric eco floors, which uses quartz crystals and ceramics to turn peoples’ movement to current.
The piezoelectric eco floor at Bar Surya uses the pressure of person to generate electricity. The owners have variously claimed the floor provides between 50 and 60 per cent of the entire building’s electricity requirement. Building Watt, a new eco building in the Netherlands, has a similar eco floor and estimates each ecor generates between 5 and 10 watts.
ECO-WALKFLOOR:
Who has made this a reality is Stephen Chan Wing Tak. Stephen has come up with Eco-Energy Flooring System pads which can illuminate LED lights by just walking or applying pressure on them.
MICROCHIP:
A Microchip is a semiconductor integrated circuit. The function depends on what it is designed to do. It could be a micro processor, memory chip, or digital tuner. It could be used in your wristwatch, microwave oven, cell phone, garage door opener, the space shuttle, or almost anything.
An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small plate ("chip") of semiconductor material, normally silicon. This can be made much smaller than a discrete circuit made from independent components.
Integrated circuits are used in virtually all electronic equipment today and have revolutionized the world of electronics. Computers, mobile phones, and other digital home appliances are now inextricable parts of the structure of modern societies, made possible by the low cost of producing integrated circuits.
ICs can be made very compact, having up to several billion transistors and other electronic components in an area the size of a fingernail. The width of each conducting line in a circuit (the line width) can be made smaller and smaller as the technology advances, in 2008 it dropped below 100 nanometers and in 2013 it is expected.
FIRMWARE
In electronic systems and computing, firmware is the combination of persistent memory and program code and data stored in it.[1] Typical examples of devices containing firmware are embedded systems (such as traffic lights, consumer appliances, and digital watches), computers, computer peripherals, mobile phones, and digital cameras. The firmware contained in these devices provides the control program for the device. Firmware is held in non-volatile memory devices such as ROM, EPROM, or flash memory
As the eco floor is fusion of electronics , embedded software and smart durable materials.
Smart materials are materials that have one or more properties that can be significantly changed in a controlled fashion by external stimuli, such as stress, temperature, moisture, pH, electric or magnetic fields.
There are a number of types of smart material, some of which are already common. Some examples are as following:
* Piezoelectric materials are materials that produce a voltage when stress is applied. Since this effect also applies in the reverse manner,
WORKING PRINCIPLE:
The eco-floor electricity uses piezoelectric effect, piezoelectric material, generators, commercialized lightning packs (LLC), and other electric storage and regulatory devices. So here we discuss in brief about them
PIEZOELECTRIC EFFECT:
Certain materials, when squeezed, develop a charge and produce electricity. Therefore, the conversion of mechanical energy to electrical energy or vice versa refers to piezoelectric effect.
PIEZOELECTRICITY:
Is the charge which accumulates in certain solid materials in response to applied mechanical strain. The word piezoelectricity means electricity resulting from pressure, which means to squeeze or press, and electric or electron, which stands for amber – an ancient source of electric charge, is produced. Piezoelectricity is the direct result of the piezoelectric effect.
The piezoelectric effect is understood as the linear electromechanical interaction between the mechanical and the electrical state in crystalline materials. The piezoelectric effect is a reversible process in that materials exhibiting the direct piezoelectric effect (the internal generation of electrical charge resulting from an applied mechanical force) also exhibit the reverse piezoelectric effect (the internal generation of a mechanical force resulting from an applied electrical field).
FORMATION OF ELECTRIC ECOFLOOR:
The nightbuilding is fitted with a bouncing floor upon springs and a series of power generating blocks. The blocks are made up of crystals(piezoelectric material) produce small electrical current when squashed, by a process known as piezoelectricity. As the ecors move up and down due to the mechanical stress the blocks are squeezed current is fed into near by batteries. The batteries are constantly recharged by the movement of the floor, and used to power the parts of the building. And the floor is made by- The piezoelectric material other electrical storage devices is sandwiched between soft flexible covers it is covered with vibrating plate and later with hard cover.
Thus the sustainable eco floor is formed. The floor provides unique visual experience on every energy level from loading and average to the maximum level of the evening: 'ultimate high'! All visuals are a continuous real-time interaction between the people on the floor, allowing every individual's actions to contribute to the collective experience.
The Sustainable Eco Floor consists of separate tiles of 65 cm x 65 cm each. A mechanical system 'clicks' the tiles together, which makes it possible to set up the eco floor in every desirable size.
The floor can be set up at almost any location. The only limitation for outside use is that the eco floor needs to be covered by a tent. The different colours of the LED lights makes the generated energy levels visible on the Eco Floor.