Exhibitors and Sponsors List

Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS)—a U.S. clean-technology company—is a global leader in manufacturing solid-state, rechargeable, thin-film micro-energy storage devices. Founded in 2001, IPS is privately held with corporate headquarters and volume manufacturing in Littleton, Colo. The company is the only ISO 9001 certified manufacturer of all-solid-state, thin-film batteries and its energy storage products provide unrivalled performance, size and service life to displace conventional coin cells, supercapacitors, and other printed and solid-state micro-batteries in a variety of applications. THINERGY® Micro-Energy Cell (MEC) products are paper-thin and provide unprecedented efficiency in micro-energy storage and uniquely enable embedded power and ambient energy-harvesting solutions to create miniature, autonomous, perpetual power supply solutions. THINERY MECs uniquely serve battery powered applications such as Bluetooth® Smart devices and other wireless sensors, active RFID tags, real-time clocks, powered cards, medical devices, and consumer electronics.

Mouser Electronics is an award-winning authorized global semiconductor and electronic component distributor, focused on the rapid introduction of new products and technologies from more than 450 manufacturers to electronic design engineers and buyers. Mouser.com features more than 2 million products online and houses more than 1,500 Product Knowledge Center (PKC) training sites, including the highly informative Energy Harvesting Technologies PKC, found at http://www.mouser.com/energy_harvesting/. A subsidiary of TTI, Inc. and part of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Mouser publishes multiple catalogs per year and ships globally to over 325,000 customers in 170 countries from its state-of-the-art facility south of Dallas, Texas. For more information, visit

Arrow Americas Components serves the broadest customer base - from the small design firm to the large, global manufacturer. Arrow specializes in serving specific customer groups, including original equipment and contract manufacturers. In the energy harvesting space, Arrow connects you with innovative technologies and solutions we've developed with our world-class supplier partners, and backs these solutions with our renowned services and expertise to help you get to market fast.

Arrow Americas Components is a leading provider of semiconductor and passive, electro mechanical and connector (PEMCO) products and services. Arrow supports its extensive product offering with supply chain solutions, world-leading engineering and design services, technical expertise, demand creation and fulfillment, and skilled sales teams to effectively meet customer needs.

Cubic Global Tracking Solutions (GTS) and its Global Sentinel(r) family of products offers an innovative, affordable solution to provide immediate reporting on the location, condition, and security of valuable and high-risk assets. CGTS is a leader in the industry, having developed a secure Mesh Asset Wireless Network Solution, (mist (tm)), which employs an 802.14.5 wireless sensor network (WSN) to track and monitor assets without fixed infrastructure. As a subcontractor for the Army's Next Generation Wireless Communications (NGWC) technology program, CGTS has developed and deployed encrypted, ultra-low powered wireless mesh for DoD, technology that enables the Army Mobile Asset Tracking System as well as many commercial applications.

Cymbet Corporation—a green technology company—is a leader in thin-film, solid-state storage devices and energy harvesting technology. The company is the first to market a component-class energy solution that designers can use to realize new embedded systems capabilities. Cymbet's EnerChip thin-film devices enable innovative energy storage applications for integrated circuits and new products for process control, medical, sensor, RFID, communications, consumer and portable electronic devices.

Linear Technology Corporation (Nasdaq: LLTC), a member of the S&P 500, designs, manufactures and markets a broad line of high performance analog integrated circuits for major communications, computer and industrial companies worldwide. Linear (or analog) circuits provide an essential bridge between our analog world and the digital microelectronics used in consumer products, wireless communications, networking products, computers, medical electronics, factory automation and automotive electronics. Linear Technology provides customers with high performance amplifiers, comparators, voltage references, monolithic filters, linear regulators, DC/DC converters, battery chargers, data converters, communications interface circuits, RF signal conditioning circuits and many other analog functions.

Marlow Industries, Inc. in Dallas, Texas is clearly recognized as the largest Thermoelectric module company in the world with regard to revenue and volume production considering provision of Power Generation, Cooling and Heating modules and assemblies for Defense, Space, Industrial/Commercial, Medical and Telecom customers and industries.

 

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Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide. Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality.

MicroGen Systems, Inc. is developing a suite of products based on its proprietary piezoelectric vibrational energy harvester (PZEH) technology.

These low cost, long lifetime (>20 years) Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems

(MEMS) are micro-power sources that extend rechargeable battery lifetime or will eliminate the need for batteries altogether. Applications include consumer, military, industrial and commercial industries.

Founded in Williston, Vermont, 1987, MicroStrain is a privately held corporation producing innovative wireless, micro-miniature displacement, orientation and strain sensor networks for the next generation of smart machines and structures. Our patented wireless sensing systems combine advanced, time-synchronized micro-power electronics with miniaturized vibration, strain, and solar energy harvesters. These systems are reliable, easy to install, and eliminate costly wiring and battery replacement.

Nextreme Thermal Solutions offers energy harvesting and electronics cooling solutions for sensor, telecommunications, semiconductor, consumer, medical, aerospace and government markets. The company uses microscale thin-film thermoelectric technology and high-volume semiconductor manufacturing processes to address the growing needs for clean-energy solutions world-wide. Nextreme also offers sophisticated modeling, design, engineering, and contract manufacturing services to deliver fully-optimized solutions from standard and customized products that solve the most challenging power and thermal management issues. Nextreme's headquarters and manufacturing facility are based near Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Visit www.nextreme.com.

Perpetuum leads the world in vibration energy-harvesting. It developed the world's first truly practical vibration harvesting microgenerator capable of generating enough power to enable the reliable transmission of large amounts of data.

The company has established itself as the global leader, specialising in the production of highly efficient microgenerators that optimise the operation and availability of plant and equipment, and improve cost-efficiency of maintenance work.

Perpetuum was set up in 2004 as a VC-backed spin out from Southampton University, where the concept for the technology originated.

Silicon Laboratories is an industry leader in the innovation of high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs. Mixed-signal ICs enable the analog world we live in to interact with the digital world of computing in customer products like set-top boxes, televisions, and cell phones. Silicon Labs' diverse portfolio of highly-integrated, easy-to-use solutions is designed in CMOS, enabling significant integration advantages without sacrificing performance.

Headquartered in Austin, TX, Silicon Labs is a global enterprise with operations, sales and design activities worldwide. Founded in 1996 on the principles of constant innovation and solid execution, Silicon Labs' strong business fundamentals and proven track record have resulted in sustained growth throughout the company's history.

SolarPrint, founded in 2008 based in Dublin, Ireland. The company develops dye sensitised solar cells (DSSC), a third-generation printable solar cell technology.

 

Light energy harvesting technologies, where energy is derived from external sources such as ambient or diffused light and then captured and stored, are an increasingly common focus for energy efficiency management systems. However, the capabilities of current solar solutions used within wireless sensors have peaked.

 

SolarPrint's technology supports higher functionality to enable the ability to scale more power-hungry wireless solutions than possible with other solutions. When it is integrated into wireless sensors for energy harvesting purposes in buildings, DSSC provides significant cost savings by eliminating wired networks and the need to replace or lengthen the life of batteries.

AdaptaMat Ltd in Helsinki Finland is the manufacturer of Magnetic Shape Memory (MSM) materials.

MSM materials are "smart" metal alloys with very specific properties. These properties are

Based on these properties applications such as energy harvestering, actuators, sensors and vibration damping devices and more can be made.

The advanced display technology (adt) group is a Swiss company group focused on the development and launch of the innovative ePaper display technology, called D³-Technology („Droplet-Driven-Display"). The D³-Technology allows to produce printing-like displays in various formats e.g. for small, medium and large scale applications.

Key features of the D³-Technology are: Lowest energy consumption / Real bi-stability / Printing-like optical display quality.

D³-Technology is a display technology using patented electrowetting principles and structures. Liquid coloured droplets are driven by this technology in pixel structures.

Avnet Electronics Marketing serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers around the globe, distributing electronic components and embedded subsystems from leading manufacturers. Avnet also provides engineering design, materials management and logistics services, system integration, configuration, device programming, and supply chain services. In addition, the company also manufactures and supports a wide variety of hardware evaluation, development and reference design kits, which allow users to experiment, benchmark, prototype, test and deploy complete designs for field trial. The company's website is located at www.em.avnet.com.

CST develops and markets software for the simulation of electromagnetic fields. Its products allow you to characterize, design and optimize electromagnetic devices all before going into the lab or measurement chamber. The extensive range of tools integrated in CST STUDIO SUITE® enables numerous applications to be analyzed without leaving the user-friendly CST design environment and can offer additional security through cross verification. CST's customers operate in industries as diverse as Defense, Telecommunications, Automotive, Electronics, and Medical Equipment. More information at

Dust Networks, the leader in standards-based intelligent wireless sensor networking (WSN), provides ultra low-power, scalable, highly reliable embedded systems to OEMs in a wide range of markets. Dust Networks enables OEMs to offer monitoring and control solutions that provide unprecedented access to information from the physical world, resulting in improved operations, safer work environments, and increased competitive advantage. Dust Networks partners and participates with industry and standards groups, such as the HART Communication Foundation, ISA, IEEE, IETF, the SunSpec Alliance, IPSO and others, to ensure the broad adoption of interoperable wireless sensor networking products. Dust Networks is a California-based, privately-held technology company.

Energy Harvesting Journal provides you with a free daily update of the latest industry developments. Launched in late 2008, this free portal covers progress of energy harvesting and energy storage in all its forms.

 

Hosted and written by IDTechEx, the leading analyst and event organiser on energy harvesting and related technologies, articles provide commentary, analysis and give a balanced view of the subject. You can opt-in for an email to be sent to you every Thursday listing the new articles posted in the previous week. We aim to make this service your most valuable tool for keeping up to date with the energy harvesting industry.

 

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The EnOcean Alliance is a consortium of around 100 innovative international companies working to further develop and promote self-powered wireless monitoring and control systems for sustainable buildings by formalising the interoperable wireless standard. The EnOcean Alliance has the largest installed base of field-proven wireless building automation networks in the world. EnOcean GmbH is the innovator and producer of the award-winning and widely patented battery-free wireless sensor technology. EnOcean's unique combination of miniaturized energy harvesting modules with ultra-low-power radio technology is the basis for innovative maintenance-free wireless sensors.

Flexible Electronics Concepts FEC is a new company set up to create innovative working samples of printed electronics. Many consumer packaged goods companies and other potential end users are frustrated that they cannot obtain innovative product concepts or even simple devices such as smart labels based on the new printed electronics. They do not want components. FEC will endeavour to help by being a product integrator and concept generator for small quantities of printed electronic products. Any successes will be produced in volume by the industry leaders. Meanwhile, buy your samples and sample books here.

Founded in 1985, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen, Germany, ranks first among the Fraunhofer Institutes concerning headcount and revenues. With the development of the audio coding method MPEG Layer-3, short MP3, Fraunhofer IIS has reached a worldwide recognition.

 

In close cooperation with our partners and clients we provide our research and development services in the following areas: Digital radio broadcasting systems, audio and multimedia technology, digital cinema systems, design automation and integrated circuits, wired, wireless and optical networks, localization and navigation, high-speed camera systems, imaging systems and nanofocus X-ray technology, medical sensor solutions and communications technology in transport and logistics.

 

The group "integrated energy supplies" conducts research and development in the field of power and battery management, wireless energy transmission and energy harvesting. Typical applications of the resulting ICs, software and electronic systems are wireless sensor notes or hybrid and electric vehicles.

IDTechEx provides independent analysis on the development and application of energy harvesting, printed electronics, RFID, electric vehicles and allied technologies.

 

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Kanazawa University, inheriting the tradition of its predecessor school, was established in 1949. As the leading university on the Sea of Japan coast, Kanazawa University has contributed greatly to Japanese higher education and academic research. The university shall actively contribute to society by opening up new academic fields and by promoting the transfer of technology and the creation of new industry.

KCF Technologies enables a smarter, sustainably powered Internet of Things. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in State College, Pennsylvania, KCF Technologies is dynamic technology development company that remains founder and employee-owned. We bring practical, innovative applications of low power wireless sensors, energy harvesters, and smart materials to our customers and partners. By leveraging internal and government funded R&D, university collaboration, and strategic industry partnerships, we create solutions that are rapidly advancing the state of the art in smart systems. We have a proven record of creating value from research; delivering a commercial outcome from all of our funded research programs.

Micropelt GmbH, Freiburg, Germany, develops, produces and markets the world's smallest and most effective thermoelectric elements for clean-tech micro energy harvesting, thermal sensing, cycling and cooling. The company employs 20 staff and currently commissions their first million-unit production facility, also located in Germany.

Micropelt's thermoelectric chips are based on a patented scalable thin film micro-structuring platform technology, which minimizes component size while maximizing power density for energy harvesting, cooling or thermal cycling applications. Process-inherent economies-of-scale break previous cost and price barriers of conventional thermoelectrics. Batteries become obsolete as cost-free electricity from waste heat powers wireless sensor networks for their entire life. Chip-thermogenerators also boast unprecedented sensitivity, resolution and dynamics in sensing heat flux and temperature change.

Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor solutions for commercial avionics and satellites; homeland security, enterprise security, military and defense; communications, lighting and display, storage and networking; and alternative energy, medical, industrial control and SEMI cap equipment. Products include high performance, high-reliability analog and RF devices, mixed-signal and RF integrated circuits, customizable SoCs, FPGAs and complete subsystems. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif. and has approximately 3,000 employees globally.

Midé Technology Corporation is an engineering company that develops, produces, and markets smart technology products and materials - primarily for the marine, aerospace, automotive, research, and manufacturing industries. Our products include; Hydroactive Seals for bulkhead shafts in ships, packaged (QuickPack), & conformable (PowerAct) piezoelectric sensors and actuators; Quickpack High Voltage Piezo amplifiers; Volture™ vibration energy harvesting systems, and Shape Memory Alloy Starter Kits. Mide also provides engineering, and forensic analysis consultation services.

Millennial Net, Inc. is a world market leader of wireless mesh network sensor technology. The company's core MeshScape technology is the only wireless sensor networking solution available today that supports the unique requirements of low power and low latency, bi-directional and peer to peer to overcome critical challenges traditionally associated with wireless sensor networks. Millennial Net is a worldwide provider of commercial and industrial wireless networking systems and products for energy management, home and industrial automation markets, military and logistics as well as medical applications that enable users, OEMs and systems integrators to quickly and cost-effectively implement wireless monitoring and control applications. Millennial Net is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

Powercast is a leading innovator of embedded wireless power based on RF energy harvesting. Powercast's technology enables remote charging of micro-power devices using controllable wireless power, over distance, between one or more sources and multiple receivers. Devices with Powercast components can be designed for battery-free or battery-recharge operation, thereby eliminating disposable batteries, the undesirable maintenance cost of replacement, and their adverse environmental impact. These devices can be dormant, with zero stand-by power, and activated remotely with power being sent continuously, on a scheduled basis, or on-demand.

Ashametrics designs, manufactures, and sells OEM software and hardware solutions for mobile health. Products include a variety of mobile phone applications that support a variety of biomedical and consumer devices for health monitoring and disease management , such as glucose meters, blood pressure cuffs, weight scales, and supports integration of health data to online medical record systems such as Google Health. Ashametrics emerged as a spin-off company of TagSense, a manufacturer of wireless sensor hardware.

Zebra Location Solutions make critical assets and resources visible in real time to improve planning, optimisation of asset utilisation enabling companies to see more and do more, while integrating in real time with today's modern ERP, MRO, such as Maximo, MES and Marine Terminal Operating Systems like Navis.

Zebra's location technologies give you accurate real-time visibility of your personnel and assets no matter the environment or situation. Zebra's unparalleled experience, broad solution RFID solutions portfolio and global delivery capability across a range of industry sectors puts its solutions at the forefront for tracking, managing, optimising and safety in operational efficiency and supply chain management.

Zebra has deployed location technologies over the past 15 years in diverse real-world environments, in industries ranging from Oil & Gas, Automotive Manufacturing and Maritime. Over two hundred major installations, with clients including J&LR, Ford, GM, Boeing, BP, The Port of Long Beach, Home Depot, USPS, The Beijing Underground and West Cheshire College are among our valued clients.

Zebra Location Solutions is a division of Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), the recognised global leader in bar code, kiosk, card, RFID printers, providing real-time tracking and management of personnel and material logistics.

American Elements is the world leader in engineered & advanced materials including high purity metals & chemicals, nanoparticles, organo-metallics and crystal-grown materials for thin film, lasers, semiconductors, photovoltaics, and electronics. American Elements maintains research and laboratory facilities in the U.S. and manufacturing/warehousing in the U.S., Europe, China & Brazil.