Energy efficiency and carbon savings via a body grid.

ABSTRACT: The climate crisis necessitates decarbonization solutions that transform energy systems across all scales. While attention today focuses on utility-scale power systems, mini-or metro-scale grids, and at end-use device efficiency, the individual user scale remains underexplored. Just as with energy efficiency innovations tailored to micro-environments, body-scale energy savings offer new opportunities alongside technological and behavioral challenges. Here we propose a technique and a suite of potential innovations focused on the "body grid" in which devices, circuits, information network, human body and the environment interact within a universal framework to achieve energy savings, new functionality, and improved comfort. We present and test a prototype body grid supporting inter-device s

SUBMITTER: Xu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11836393 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature