Powering or charging Electron with piezo harvesting

I have several field installed electron sensors that are subject to a frequent vibrational environment. I have been tinkering with vibrational energy collection and charging capacitors. I know that charging batteries from caps presents a whole bunch of other design issues.

I was wondering if there is anyone doing this or if there was a way to power or charge the Li-Po via this method?

thanks,
bill

Yes, there is a chip to do just that! I have one for solar but have not used it yet but it will work for Piezo also: https://www.tindie.com/products/onehorse/bq25504-solar-cell-lipo-charger/?pt=full_prod_search

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