The document proposes a "Green Corridor" project that uses piezoelectric sensors to generate renewable energy from footsteps, vehicle tires, and roads/paths. The project aims to address issues like pollution, lack of green energy, and scarce land by developing smart cities and green infrastructure. Piezoelectric transducers placed in roads/paths, vehicle tires, and shoes will harness kinetic energy from human and vehicle movement to generate electricity with minimal pollution. The electricity will be stored and monitored via a cloud server to power devices along the corridor, demonstrating an innovative smart cities solution.

1. The Green Corridor
an approach towards Smart and Green Cities
Technology bucket: Smart cities and green energy
Team Leader : Shashank Dubey
Category : Hardware
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2. Introduction
 The green corridor is a project on smart cities, green cities and
renewable resources.
 In this proposed work ,we will work with the principles of piezoelectric
effect
 We use piezoelectric sensors (basically transducers) as the heart of this
project.
 The main motto of our project is to generate green energy.
 We believe in small innovators , Big innovations.

3. Background of Innovation
Today’s megacities need to develop themselves on
following parameters :
1. Pollution
2. Green Energy
3. Scarcity of land
• 9 out of every 10 people in the world breathe polluted air
• 9 out of top 10 polluted cities of the world are in India itself.
• Around 3.8 million people died in 2016 due to pollution.
• Non-renewable sources makes up 85% of worldwide energy usage.
• In the last 50 years, the global energy demand has tripled.
• It is projected to triple again over the next 30 years.
The above data shows that there is a need of an alternative and the best
approach is to make our livelihood smarter thus making our cities smart cities
and green cities.

4. Problem statement
 There is a variety of fuels used to generate energy and all impact the
environment.
• Fossil fuel power plants release a huge amount of air pollution.
• Nuclear power plants generate and accumulate a large quantity of radioactive
waste.
• Hydal power plants affects aquatic habitat.
• Windmills affects birds
 Assume if we can build cities with smart infrastructure having smart
transportation system that helps in generating energy with a negligible amount
of pollution.

5. Solution
 The main motto of our proposed work is to generate electricity using the
principle of piezoelectric effect.
 In the complete project we will develop a corridor where all the energy
generated from that corridor is green energy.
There are different modules of implementation phase
 MODULE 1: In this module, we will develop new kind of roads and footpaths. This
road and footpath will differ from traditional roads because it will include lots of
piezoelectric transducers
 MODULE 2: In this module, we will develop and place piezoelectric transducers
on or inside the tires of the vehicles.
 MODULE 3: This is the last module in which the energy will be generated from
our running shoes. We will place a piezoelectric transducer inside the sole of the
shoes and attach a small power storage device to the circuitry.

6. Prototype
Piezoelectric transducer

7. Solar
Panels
Piezo
sensors
Cloud server
Battery
Customized
computing
deviceboard
WiFi modem
Wi-Fi link