Flexible Wood-Based Triboelectric Self-Powered Smart Home System

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and big data, the smart home has played a critical role in human life and smart cities, where large amounts of distributed sensors should be applied. Here, we report a natural wood-based triboelectric self-powered sensor (WTSS) for building the smart home system. Based on an effective and simple treatment strategy for natural wood, the WTSS shows superior sensitivity, flexibility, stability, and thinness. Owing to the extensive use of wood materials in home construction, the WTSS is integrated with household facilities and applied in three real-time human-machine interfaces, including a smart home control system, a smart password gate control system, and a smart floor monitoring system, with advantages of low cost, easy operation, and eco-friendliness. This work promotes the development of wood-based flexible electronics and shows potential applications in the construction of smart homes and future cities.

Automated summary

This study reports a self-powered sensor based on natural wood for building smart home systems. The sensor exhibits superior sensitivity, flexibility, stability, and thinness, and can be integrated with household facilities for various applications in smart home control, gate control, and floor monitoring.