Biomedical Engineering Reference
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over 3 mW/cm
3
for all body locations (the ankle location could be
over 100 mW/cm
3
). Some biomedical devices have power requirements
similar to what is theoretically available (cardiac pacemakers require
an average of 0.1 mW, while hearing aids consume around 0.05 mW,
Flipsen et al., 2004). Therefore, some biomedical applications can ben-
efit directly from this energy harvesting approach for their power. Yet,
most devices are still far from these theoretical values.
