Through a challenge brought by Repsol to have self-powered and pre-service sensors, this design thinking project had a goal of elaborating an innovative prototype of energy production using nanomaterials that should harvest environmental wasted energy from movement, vibration, and pressure in harsh environments to feed low power electronic sensors and monitoring devices.
After one year in this design thinking process, we were able to demonstrate our energy harvesting technology in a controlled relevant environment (crude at high pressures and temperatures), going from zero to a Technology Readiness Level 4.