Energy harvesting switch integrated with multiple gateways to cabin network

A switch monitoring system for an aircraft vehicle comprising:

• multiple push-button energy harvesting switches, each push-button energy harvesting switch associated with a user-activated device in the aircraft vehicle, each push-button energy harvesting switch having a transmitter adapted to generate a wireless data message responsive to push-button energy harvesting switch actuation;
• a wireless gateway receiver, located in the aircraft vehicle, the wireless gateway receiver receiving wireless data messages from corresponding push-button energy harvesting switches of associated user-activated devices, the wireless gateway receiver having a hardware processor and an associated memory, the memory storing program instructions, the hardware processor running the program instructions configuring the hardware processor to:
• parse a received wireless data message to obtain a message payload data;
• detect, from the obtained message payload data, an identity of the push-button energy harvesting switch that generated the wireless data message and its corresponding user-activated device;
• parse the received wireless data message to determine a message count parameter;
• and
• validate the received wireless data message based on the determined message count parameter,
• wherein the multiple push-button energy harvesting switches are monitored in the aircraft vehicle without use of a battery or a wire connection.