Recent Progress on Soft Transducers for Sensor Networks

Moving a society away from mass production and mass disposal to value-adding manufacturing and economical use of resources is no easy task. Toward this endeavor, the development of renewable energy technology will be fundamental. As part of this, some principal undertakings will be to construct a global sensor network, plan the optimization of energy for manufacturing, and determine the need for manufactured goods for waste reduction. This paper discusses dielectric elastomer (DE) sensor network systems using a DE electric generator. We will also discuss their present status and methods for introducing a commercial model.

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