inDOOR Energy Harvester

a visualization of energy stored over time

mouse over the graph to view details from each point

number of times door opened: 946635

A joule is the SI unit of energy measuring heat, electricity and mechanical work.
One joule is the work done, or energy expended, by a force of one newton moving one meter.

what is a joule

The inDOOR Energy Harvester is a low cost, low profile mechanism that converts rotational kinetic energy from opening and closing a door to usable electricity via a geared generator. There is a circuit to store this electricity, measure what is produced and stored over time, save that data on a sever and then be able to dynamically graph and monitor its progress from a website. The stored electricity can them then be used for any of the buildings off grid needs, such as emergency sign-age, cameras or lighting.

This system is currently in the prototyping and testing phase.

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