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LOCATION
Conference Rooms:
Atlantic Ballroom 1/2/3, 3rd Floor, Renaissance Boston Waterfront
Exhibition and Refreshments:
Pacific Grand Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Renaissance Boston Waterfront
Tuesday, 15 Nov 2011
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Wednesday, 16 Nov 2011
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Tuesday November 15, 2011
Keynote Presentations (08:45 - 13:05)
08:45 - 09:00 "Energy Harvesting Trends, Challenges and Opportunities 2011-2021"
- What has happened in the last 12 months
- Wireless Sensor Networks and Beyond
- The hottest sectors, and what needs to be done
- 2011-2021 forecasts
- Regulatory and societal motivation to reduce energy consumption
- Ford's broad approach to meeting sustainability goals
- Energy harvesting on-vehicle, advantages & challenges
- Energy harvesting off-vehicle, another avenue to improve energy efficiency
- Present technology in promotions
- Challenges
- Opportunities
- Bright e-Skin technology enables (green) novel applications
- Ultra-low power consumption, also for gray scale
- This enables "Zero-Energy e-Skin", demonstrated for indoor photovoltaic cells and RF power
10:40 BREAK
- Latest update on PlanIT Valley, Portugal;
- Integration of sensors in common architectural elements;
- How do sensors help build, operate, maintain and decommission buildings.
- Efficiency gains through the use of a buck converter as compared to the use of a traditional voltage regulator,
- Tools to calculate the current conversion values using existing buck conversion ICs and efficiencies,
- How to convert the overhead voltage from the energy storage device into additional load current,
- How the available capacity from the energy storage device will be increased by reducing the load apparent to the battery,
- A comparison of high current buck sources vs. low current buck sources suitable for varied applications.
13:05 LUNCH
Needs and Applications in Buildings, Infrastructure & Logistics (14:30 - 15:20)
14:30 - 14:55 "A Case Study on Building Controls with Emphasis on Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensors"- Development of a new dimmable constant current LED driver
- Power options: on-site alternate energy sources
- Green features
- Challenging technical requirements for WSN in logistics. Comparison with other applications.
- Economical challenges for WSN in asset tracking, i.e. competition with barcodes, passive, active, and general expectation of any ID must be a fraction of the cost.
- Technical and economical challenges in logistics are real, but opportunities are also incredible based on potential quantities and services.
- CGTS story: solving these challenges in real world and opening up for RAND licensing.
Solar Powered Sensors (15:20 - 16:15)
15:20 - 15:50 "Collaborative Case Study Highlighting Analog Devices Inc RF101 MCU & RF Chip Set with SolarPrints SP4858 Solar Cell and Power Management Solution for Wireless Energy Harvesting Multi Sensors"15:45 BREAK
Energy Harvesting in Healthcare (16:15 - 16:40)
16:15 - 16:40 "Energy Scavenging and Battery Power for Long Term Medical Monitoring"- Identification of Ambient Energy Sources
- Energy Conversion Mechanisms
- Examples of Energy Scavenging Systems
- Discussion of Optimal Scavenger Design Characteristics
- Energy Storage for Energy Scavenging Devices
- Criteria for Selecting an Energy Storage System
- Implantable versus Externally used Batteries
- Battery Lifetime and Failure Issues
Wireless Power (16:40 - 17:55)
16:40 - 17:05 "Wireless Charging: Global Automotive Industry Reception"- How wireless charging is progressing in the global automotive industry.
- Which regions and companies are emerging as the early industry leaders in this field.
- Approaches to wireless charging.
- Outlook for 2012, and beyond.
- We will visit the opportunities for wireless power and how it can be utilized in business today
- We will explore the limits of wireless power today and what the future holds
- Will will review today's wireless power technology options, applications and industry roadmap
17:55 END
Energy Harvesting for Land, Sea and Air Vehicles (14:30 - 16:40)
14:30 - 14:55 "Control and Energy Recovery from Oscillations"- Modern vehicles oscillate up/down as they move down the road or across terrain
- An efficient, well packaged ability to capture energy from oscillations, provides opportunities to: Improve fuel economy, reduce emissions, extend range, control ride, handling, safety, performance
- Levant Power will discuss development of a regenerative valve that can be actuated (active suspension), controlled (adaptive damping) and used to recover energy (regeneration)
- Technology has been applied to transportation (shock absorbers), marine (wave energy conversion) and industrial (damping) applications
- Energy available in several scenarios
- Overview of harvesting technology
- Value proposition
- Technology status
- Motivation of piezoelectric energy harvesting research and the state-of-the-art
- Material consideration for design high energy efficiency piezoelectric harvesters
- Comprehensive considerations for piezoelectric harvesters from mechanical engineering, materials science, electrical engineering and system integrations
- Examples of high energy efficiency piezoelectric energy harvesting transducers
15:45 BREAK
- Challenges in the development of an untethered communications buoy
- Gatekeeper and the Sea Water Activated Power System
- Comparing aviation regeneration mode to automotive
- Solar heating--Power supply for aviation regen.
- Regenerative soaring--Fly all day with the possibility of no net charging from the grid.
- Photovoltaic hangar--Initial charge for the electric airplane.
Energy Harvesting for Consumer Electronics and Consumer Goods (17:05 - 17:30)
17:05 - 17:30 "Reverse Electrowetting - a New Approach to High-Power Energy Harvesting for Mobile Electronics"- Challenges in high-power energy harvesting for mobile electronics
- Reverse electrowetting concept and its advantages over traditional methods
- Footwear-embedded high-power energy harvesting for mobile electronics
- High-power energy harvesting from mechanical vibrations
Footstep Harvesting in Grid Power Replacement (17:30 - 17:55)
17:30 - 17:55 "Foot-Powered Occupancy Detection"- Harvesting energy from footfall to power embedded wireless transmitters
- Node-to-node wireless communication tactics for efficient building controls
- Economic upside of integrating energy savings, data tracking, and security systems under one wireless umbrella
- POWERleap as a solutions provider in a component heavy industry
17:55 END
Wednesday November 16, 2011
Energy Harvesting Powered Sensor Solutions (09:00 - 11:20)
09:00 - 09:25 "Thermal, Solar, and Vibration Energy Harvesting Applications and System Solutions"- Applications of thermal, solar, and vibration energy harvesters for wireless sensing systems will be presented.
- Each application's unique design challenges will be outlined.
- Systems for energy harvesting, energy storage, data aggregation, and data transmission that meet these challenges will be described.
- Primary types of energy harvesting for energy management devices
- Integration of energy harvesting with RF modules
- International standardization of wireless protocol
- Market potential
Lead author Dr. Peter Fuhr
Co-authors Teja Kuruganti, Wayne Manges, Timothy McIntyre (ONRL)
- New techniques for ambient energy conversion, storage and distribution
- Energy Processors for maximum peak power tracking and power status indications
- Power techniques for enabling ZigBee Green Power and IPv6-based 6LoWPAN sensors
- Product tear-downs using various EH transducers, sensors, MCUs, radios and power management.
10:40 BREAK
Wireless Sensor Network Development (11:20 - 12:10)
11:20 - 11:45 "Dynamic Meshing - Next Gen WSN for the Dynamic World"- Dynamic world applications present numerous challenges to mainstream WSN protocols. Smart Wireless Devices on the networks are required to be constantly connected and be able to intelligently adapt to always changing mobile environments in real time speeds. No longer can centralized logic approach satisfy ever-growing demands of dynamic networks.
- Next Gen WSN provides high performance mesh networking to enable new applications with mobility and flexibility. Dynamic Meshing logic eliminates all barriers mainstream WSN protocols could not overcome.
- Numerous additional opportunities arise with ability to combine RFID, Power Harvesting and Dynamic Meshing WSN technologies.
- IEEE 802.15.4 wireless mesh networks based on time-synchronized, channel hopping standards such as IEC62591 (WirelessHART) offer carrier-class reliability and network-wide low power, enabling every node to operate for many years on batteries or energy harvesting power sources.
- New low power wireless standards, such as ZigBee Green Power, 6LoWPAN and 802.15.4E, will bring ultra low power wireless sensors powered by energy harvesting to even broader markets.
- Examples of a variety of low power wireless mesh network applications will be presented, including data center energy management, equipment condition monitoring and process plant efficiency.
- Location aware, wire-free mesh networks can dramatically cut the installation cost of RTLS infrastructure, while offering the ability to simultaneously transmit wireless sensor data, control signals and accurate location information for both static and moving objects.
Energy Harvesting in the Military (12:10 - 14:00)
12:10 - 12:35 "Energy Harvesting Using Micro-organisms"- Described here are Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) - processes in which microorganisms are used to catalyze electrode reactions
- Microbial electrode catalysts are appealing for their self-maintaining ability, resulting from the metabolic benefit they derive by the electrode reactions they catalyze, enabling prolonged utilization without degradation of catalytic activity
- Potential applications include oxidation of biomass for renewable energy and wastewater treatment, reduction of carbon dioxide for fuel generation and bioremediation applications, and generation of power with integrated energy storage from sunlight.
12:35 LUNCH
Energy Storage: Breakthroughs (14:00 - 14:50)
14:00 - 14:25 "Home Solar Energy Generation and Storage"- Partnering Domestic Solar Electricity Generation with Energy Storage
- SHARP eco-house concept
- Incentives for micro-generation and storage
- System Concepts and Examples
- Storage is a critical component to an advanced power delivery system. If electricity generating facilities had access to bulk cheap storage they could be operated around the clock at optimal intensity.
- As for renewables such as wind and photovoltaic solar, storage is the enabling technology that addresses their intermittency and thereby qualifies them to contribute to baseload capacity.
- The elements of electrochemical energy storage will be described along with examples of current technology including research being conducted at MIT on a new concept in large-format energy storage: the liquid metal battery.
- The technology is being commercialized via a startup company, Liquid Metal Battery Corporation, here in Cambridge.
Ultra Low Power Electronics & System Design (14:50 - 17:25)
14:50 - 15:15 "Extremely Low Power MCUs, a Perfect Complement for Harvesters"- Introduction to XLP Technology
- Essential features of Extremely Low Power MCUs
- XLP in Energy Harvesting applications
- Tips to maximize run time
- There are compelling reasons to use energy harvesting technology to displace conventional batteries and/or eliminate the need for wiring
- Replacing batteries in large wireless networked systems can be inconvenient to replace and unreliable in certain conditions
- A new proof-of-concept reference design addresses wireless sensor node challenges by measuring temperature, light and charge levels while sending data via a wireless USB dongle
- Featured technologies include an ultra-low power Wireless MCU and wireless RF ICs from Silicon Labs, power management system from Linear Technology, micro-energy cell from IPS and a solar panel for harvesting energy
15:40 BREAK
- DC-DC converter for thermogenerators
- AC-DC converter for piezo-generators
- Applications: Bridge monitoring, tracking systems
- Introduction to air-flow harvesting: principles and fundamental limits
- Review of previous approaches
- Design, fabrication and performance of a cm-scale turbine-based harvester
- Outlook
- A review of the current deployment of ZigBee Devices and Markets
- A discussion of where low power operations are seen within ZigBee.
- Devices that specifically target low power operations; a discussion.
17:25 END
Flexible & Stretchable Energy Harvesting (09:00 - 10:15)
09:00 - 09:25 "Energy Harvesting for Automotive Applications"- Solar, thermoelectric, dynamic, multimodal harvesting
- Technology principles
- Energy harvesting concepts and devices
- mc10 takes electronics 'out of the box' and has a conformal electronics platform that is currently under development for wearable systems, among other applications.
- There are many challenges with designing a self-contained wearable system; such a system requires energy generation, energy storage, wireless communication, and sensing capabilities, all in a wearable form factor.
- This presentation will outline the current state of the art, the envisioned future, and what needs to happen to bridge the gap.
- A novel technology has been developed that integrates piezoelectric polymer substrate and photovoltaic coating system to create a film or fibre structure that is capable of harvesting energy from nature, including sun, rain, wind, wave and tide.
- The raw materials used are inexpensive starting with the piezoelectric material which is extruded and poled.
- Since the organic photovoltaic material system is made in a normal atmospheric environment, the cost associated with the whole structure is manifold less expensive than ceramic based photovoltaic.
- The resultant material system is flexible and can be incorporated in textiles for a wide variety of applications.
New Energy Storage Materials and Concepts (10:15 - 11:20)
10:15 - 10:40 "Chromophore-Derivitized Carbon Nanotubes as High-Energy-Density Solar Thermal Fuels"- Introduction to the concept of solar thermal fuels; discussion of previous efforts and the challenges they identified.
- Discussion of the principles behind our design strategy and the methods we use to develop and test these principles.
- Presentation of our first-principles results for energy storage capacity and lifetime of the designed azobenzene-derivitized carbon nanotube (azo/CNT) solar thermal fuels.
- Presentation of preliminary experimental results for synthesis and characterization of azo/CNT solar thermal fuels.
- Discussion of extension of strategy to numerous other chromophore/template nanostructures.
10:40 BREAK
Thermoelectric: New Progress (11:20 - 14:00)
11:20 - 11:45 "Creating New Applications and Markets with Thermobility Thin-Film Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting"- Renewable power sources in distributed sensors and sensor networks
- Thermobility™; a new power generation technology
- Using microscale thin-film thermoelectrics
- Thermoelectric activities at BASF
- Path from Material to Module
- Path from Module to Application
- Current and future challenges
- Amerigon will present the their thermoelectric heat to power technology developed under DOE funding in a six-year program.
- The program has enabled the development of modelling tools and prototype demonstrators for heat to power in automotive and industrial markets.
- High temperature Thermoelectric generators have been modelled, design, built and installed in BMW and Ford test vehicles.
- The Generators make ~ ½ kilowatt electrical power at nominal design with 620C inlet gas temperature.
- A summary of the technology & program results will be presented.
- Optimized thermal energy harvesters for fluid or solid surfaces to power applications, starting with as little as 2°C system temperature differences
- Thermal and electrical matching importance, allows for maximum power from cost effective low-couple count thermoelectric generators
- Application example - thermal and electrical considerations, storage element.
13:00 LUNCH
Application of Electromagnetic Harvesters (14:00 - 14:50)
14:00 - 14:25 "Vibrational Energy Harvesting Technologies and Applications for 2012 and Beyond"- Trends in energy harvesting
- Upcoming applications using energy vibrational energy harvesting
Magnetostrictive Energy Harvesters (14:50 - 17:25)
14:50 - 15:15 "Energy Harvesters Utilizing Galfenol Technology"- Vibrational energy harvesting devices utilizing the new magnetostrictive material Galfenol will be presented. A brief comparison between piezoelectric, magnetoelectric, and Galfenol-based energy harvesters will be made.
- A review of the Galfenol technology will be presented including the current state of the art of the technology; with a focus on material properties and available form factors. In addition, a brief discussion on the future direction of Galfenol technology will be presented.
- The principles of operation of these next generation energy harvesters will be discussed.
- A prototype energy harvester will be displayed demonstrating the capabilities of Galfenol-based energy harvesters.
Thin Film Piezoelectrics (15:15 - 17:25)
15:15 - 15:40 "Energy Harvesting Devices Based on Piezoelectric AlN Thin Films"15:40 BREAK
17:25 END
