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    A Sustainable Blue Energy Scavenging Smart Buoy toward Self-Powered Smart Fishing Net Tracker
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    • Arunkumar Chandrasekhar
      Arunkumar Chandrasekhar
      Nanomaterials and System Lab, Major of Mechatronics Engineering, Faculty of Applied Energy Systems, Jeju National University, Jeju 690-756, Republic of Korea
      Nanosensors and Nanoenergy Lab, Department of Sensor and Biomedical Technology, School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore 632014, Tamil Nadu, India
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      Orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-4561-0975
    • Venkateswaran Vivekananthan
      Venkateswaran Vivekananthan
      Nanomaterials and System Lab, Major of Mechatronics Engineering, Faculty of Applied Energy Systems, Jeju National University, Jeju 690-756, Republic of Korea
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      Orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-1756-6548
    • Gaurav Khandelwal
      Gaurav Khandelwal
      Nanomaterials and System Lab, Major of Mechatronics Engineering, Faculty of Applied Energy Systems, Jeju National University, Jeju 690-756, Republic of Korea
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    • Sang-Jae Kim*
      Sang-Jae Kim
      Nanomaterials and System Lab, Major of Mechatronics Engineering, Faculty of Applied Energy Systems, Jeju National University, Jeju 690-756, Republic of Korea
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    Water is abundantly present on Earth. Water waves have the unique feature of being random and irregular. The impact of water waves can be utilized to derive power by employing a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG). Fishing is one of the main occupations in our society, and fishermen risk their lives every day for their occupation. During fishing, they face many obstacles such as heavy wind, fog, and tides, and these scenarios force them to lose their fishing nets in the sea. The loss of fishing nets not only leads to financial damage to the poor fishermen but also adds plastic pollution to the water bodies. A low cost, user-friendly approach to finding their fishing nets is highly desirable. Here, a self-powered smart fishing net-tracking buoy is developed for identifying fishing nets via integration of a Smart Buoy-Triboelectric Nanogenerator (SB-TENG), a power management unit, Arduino, and a Bluetooth controller using a smartphone. By scavenging blue energy, the SB-TENG device generates an open-circuit voltage of 900 V, and a short-circuit current of 11 μA and integration of multiple units of SB-TENG further enhances the performance. The SB-TENG was studied and demonstrated as a feasible power source that can commute instantaneous remote switching operation of LEDs. Moreover, by combining SB-TENG with Arduino and the Bluetooth controller, it acts as a self-powered wireless control system. This work demonstrates an effective method for scavenging blue energy and its potential application as a user-friendly, cost-effective, and self-powered smart fishing net tracking buoy.

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    • Peak power and power density calculations, Arduino program for smart buoy with bluetooth controller, table showing the comparison of the proposed SB-TENG with other reports, top view and cross-sectional view of SB-TENG device placed in the buoy device, digital photograph of the complete SB-TENG device floating on the water, parallel circuit connection of multiple-unit SB-TENG, and pairing smartphone with smart buoy (PDF)

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