A System for Harvesting Energy from Stray Magnetic Fields

In this paper we propose an original system for replacing batteries or feeding cables used to feed monitoring equipments exposed to stray magnetic fields. The main elements of this system are a coil intended to capture the energy from magnetic field and an electronic circuit for voltage controlling. Two voltage control systems are presented: a DC–DC converter yielding a regulated voltage and a voltage tripler circuit carrying a load capacitor. This system furnishes approximately 10 mW depending on the field magnitude and the coil core material. It is shown that the low consumption feeding circuit is effective and the use of core material may increase the furnished power to up to 25 %.