This book highlights the current and recent state-of-the-art developments in energy harvesting
systems for health supervising applications. It explores the exciting potential of energy
harvesting as a crosscutting field of research to intersect with other areas to envisage new
products solutions and applications. Among all these new opportunities for synergy there is
a research area that fully matches the features offered by energy harvesting with its power
supply's main needs- health supervising (HS) which consists of monitoring the health or
operating conditions of anything such as structures buildings public health environment
etc. The book covers the hand in hand evolution towards a new paradigm: truly self-powered
devices based on a single transducer acting as a sensor and as power source simultaneously and
efficiently. This evolution is illustrated by the concept and implementation of novel
state-of-the-art architecture for self-powered energy harvesting systems for applications that
range from structural health monitoring to point-of-care medical devices.
