Background Information

As seniors of Mechanical Engineering at the City College of New York, one of our main goals is to work together in a group to successfully develop a design to solve a real-life engineering problem. Using prior knowledge from previous courses, our design group received a project from Alcatel Lucent to further assist them in harvesting energy. 

 

Purpose

Design a device that would harvest the most vibrational energy possible from a monopole cell tower.

 

Requirements / Constraints

• Work under the widest frequency range.

• Each component must weigh 50 pounds or less

• Device may not block the maintenance ladder.

• Cannot interfere with the radio frequencies (850MHz, 1900MHz, 2100MHz).

• Weather Proof

• Operate in a temperature range of -20 F to 120 F

• Energy harvested must be converted to 120 volt 60 Hz