MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611007554 A) filed by Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, on Jan. 27, for 'autonomous smart pavement module for footstep-based power generation and environmental monitoring.'
Inventor(s) include Neha Kondal; and Krish Kashyap.
The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention introduces a self-powered smart pavement module for autonomous environmental monitoring using energy harvested from pedestrian footsteps. The system integrates pavement-embedded energy harvesting mechanisms, local energy storage, a hardware-based...