Piezo. The Road To Green...

A Feasibility Study on Smart Roads

The principle of a smart-road consists of incorporating piezoelectric sensors in city streets and roads. These transducers transform mechanical energy into electrical energy. They use the mechanical energy created by the wheels in traffic to produce electricity that can be either redirected to neighborhoods or used to supply local road equipment (e.g. traffic lights, radars, etc.). This idea has not been implemented anywhere in the world yet and our focus was to transform this theoretical concept into a tangible policy by doing a feasibility study.