Application of Aloe Vera-derived Plant-based Cell in Powering Wireless IoT devices in a Smart Greenhouse

Abstract

The electrical energy represents the harvested from the living plants which can be used as a renewable energy for powering wireless devices in remote areas where recharging or replacing the battery is a difficult task. Therefore, harvesting electrical energy from living plants in remote areas such as in farms or forest areas can be an ideal source of energy as these areas are rich with living plants. The present paper proposes a design of a power management circuit that can harness, store and manage the electrical energy which is harvested from the leaves of (Aloe Vera) plants to trigger a transmitter load to power a remote sensor. In the present paper, we have proposed a power management circuit, which can harvest the electrical energy from the Aloe Vera plants and converts the plants into a plant-based cell (PBC) to activate a remote sensor via a wireless transmission .The power management circuit consists of two sections namely; an energy storage system that acts as an energy storage reservoir to store the energy harvested from the plants as well as a voltage regulation system which is used to boost and manage the energy in accordance to a load operation.