Conference Agenda
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
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Wednesday May 26, 2010
The Analyst View (08:45 - 09:00)
08:45 - 09:00 "Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensor Markets 2010-2020"
- Ten year forecasts for RTLS and Wireless Sensor Networks
- Ten year forecasts for energy harvesting technologies
- Over supply and undersupply
- Industry needs and opportunities in the value chain
Keynotes (09:00 - 14:00)
09:00 - 09:25 "Solar Cell Integration in Mobile Applications"- Solar integration: constraints link to mobile applications
- How much power can we expect?
- Design an appropriate energy management.
- Aircraft applications and requirements, feasibility issues for energy harvesting devices, benefits by using wireless sensor nodes
- Power requirements of wireless sensor nodes, integration challenges, selection of energy harvesting principles, energy management and storage
- Review of recent achievements, miniaturisation aspects, assessment of future research needs
- Current types of wireless, active RFID, and passive RFID infrastructures
- New Ways of Integrating Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems
- Discussion of the information security impacts of various wireless infrastructures, real and imagined issues, and how they affect policy
- How policy and technology are intersecting, and impacting potential productivity with RFID, RTLS, wireless, in government and commercial environments
10:15 Coffee & Networking Break
The talk will give an overview of energy harvesting and wireless sensor research and development activities in the Rolls-Royce Control and Systems Engineering UTC covering:
- The drivers for self-powered wireless sensor technologies in aerospace, marine and industrial applications
- Overview of the Centre's research into low power wireless sensor technologies
- Results of laboratory and engine testing of wireless and energy harvesting technologies
- Description of current challenges and new technologies being investigated
The talk will also include associated work with Airbus developing a Wireless Nervous System for future Active Aircraft.
- Carbon reduction and energy efficiency as main drivers for smart metering in the world
- The end to end system model for smart metering
- WSN and energy harvesting technology challenges for smart metering
- The potential of making the built environment work harder for energy harvesting technologies with cost savings.
- The potential power from harvesting energy from footsteps and storage solutions.
- Reducing the embodied energy at all stages of production of the product improving the environmental pay back period.
- New markets and applications for technology
- Where Pavegen is now and the future global deployment of its products
- SNCF group overview
- Railway environment specificities
- Wireless sensor networks SNCF's expectations
- Energy harvesting SNCF's expectations
- Some railway applications
- Conclusions and future prospects
12:35 Lunch
Transportation (14:00 - 14:15)
14:00 - 14:25 "Active RFID + Display + Location for Automotive Logistics"- Active RFID enables long distance communication
- Display as an alternative to legacy paper labels
- Location detection is an essential requirement for logistics operations
- Finished vehicles transported individually (using VIN) during their supply chain
- New system eliminates unnecessary works dramatically in automotive logistics
Military (14:25 - 14:50)
14:25 - 14:50 "Highly Efficient Kinetic Energy Harvester for WSN and Thoughts on Miniaturization"- Theory behind U.S. Navy develop kinetic energy harvesters
- Applications
- Scalability of technology
- Challenges and issues of miniaturization
Buildings, Architecture and Construction (14:50 - 15:15)
14:50 - 15:15 "Harvesting Energy Within The Built Environment"- Turning negatives into useful positives
- Harvesting footfall
- Harvesting environmental vibrations
- Additional benefits and markets
Applications and Payback Assessment (15:15 - 17:25)
15:15 - 15:40 "How Everything Will be Tracked Wirelessly"15:40 Coffee & Networking Break
- Different requirements in Factory Automation (FA), Process Automation (PA) and Building Automation (BA)
- Overview of wireless systems at the market
- Requirements for integration of wireless systems in the automation world
- Examples with PC-Control technology from Beckhoff (covering PLC, I/O, Motion, Safety and Wireless)
- Records broken - air, sea and land
- Winners and losers
- Forecasts 2010-2020
17:25 Day 1 Track 1 Ends
Passive RFID Sensors (14:00 - 14:50)
14:00 - 14:25 "Passive 16-Bit Resolution RFID Sensors for Gases and Liquids"- Our approach converts ubiquitous passive HF RFID tags into inductively coupled sensors; 16-bit resolution is provided by a newly developed sensor reader; no need for custom RFID memory chips that have an analog input.
- Developed sensors detect part-per-billion or part-per-million concentrations of gases and part-per-trillion part-per-billion concentrations of species in liquids; detection selectivity is provided by multivariate data processing of sensor response.
- Examples of diverse application scenarios will be demonstrated.
- One of the EU Project PriMeBits targeted low cost , full passive, wireless sensor products .
- Contains a standard silicon chip plus a printed antenna/ sensor/ memory element all packed into a single label.
- Allows Insurance Companies to detect Mildew without removing walls or roof elements.
Photovoltaics (14:50 - 16:10)
14:50 - 15:15 "Organic Photovoltaics - Entering the Energy Landscape"- Introduction to OPV technology
- Overview of production processes
- Performance status
- Products and Outlook
- Comparison of different energy harvesting systems
- Fundamentals of photovoltaic (PV) systems, especially for micro energy applications
- Benefits of high efficiency PV components
15:40 Coffee & Networking Break
Breakthrough in Batteries (16:10 - 17:25)
16:10 - 16:35 "INFINERGY MPM - Practical Results from Customer Case Studies"Exploring Real Life Customer Experiences of Deploying Energy Harvesting
- Energy harvesting products reduce the lifetime cost of ownership of micro-power applications such as wireless sensor networks
- Customers are deploying our easily integrated, efficient "Plug and Play" energy harvesting modules to store harvested energy and provide a regulated output, and sharing their results
- With their acceptance of power at levels as low as 1µW and their ability to store energy for 10 years and beyond, these modules enable a new generation of autonomous and sustainable products.
- Si is a viable fuel
- Si can be discharged in ionic liquids
- Combination of Si with oxygen cathode provides high energy density battery.
- High energy batteries have up to 30 years proven life
- PulsesPlus batteries power stand alone sensors and communication modules
- Energy storage device has widest temperature range and lowest self discharge rate
17:25 Day 1 Track 2 Ends
Thursday May 27, 2010
Energy Harvesting from Multiple Harvesters (09:00 - 09:25)
09:00 - 09:25 "Harvesting Power from Multiple Energy Sources for Wireless Sensors"- An integrated energy harvesting wireless sensing node capable of operating from ambient energy sources such as vibration, thermal, and solar.
- New generation of scalable sensor networks to be embedded more deeply into machines and structures.
- Overcoming the challenges of powering wireless sensor nodes and finding ways to maintain a charge on energy storage elements.
Energy Harvesting Powered WSN (09:25 - 10:15)
09:25 - 09:50 "Working with Industry to Create New Ideas and Opportunities"- An overview of the energy harvesting world
- test beds at NPL to compare devices
- benefits of working collaboratively
- responding to opportunities in Industry.
- Energy harvesting wireless sensors are in mass production
- World's first system-on-chip enables self-powered 2-way communication
- Realization of self-powered wireless actuators
Energy Harvesting Technology Overview (10:15 - 11:20)
10:15 - 10:40 "Opportunities and Challenges of MEMS based Energy Harvesters"- An overview of application fields for wireless sensor systems powered by energy harvesters, focusing on MEMS based energy harvesters
- The impact on the harvester design and characteristics when reducing its dimensions
- Recent results of micromachined vibrational and thermal harvesters
- Opportunities and challenges of small MEMS based energy harvesters
10:40 Coffee & Networking Break
Energy Harvesting Powered Consumer Electronics (11:20 - 11:45)
11:20 - 11:45 "Piezo Energy Harvesting: A Glance on High Efficiency Conversion"- Energy harvesting from a mechanical point of view
- Stakes of energy harvesting, and radio budget trends
- Technical achievements, and market opportunitie
Energy Storage Devices (11:45 - 12:10)
11:45 - 12:10 "Secondary Microbatteries for Energy Harvesting Micro Systems"- Effective intermediate energy storage is required for all energy harvesting concepts, due to the varying availability of ambient energy and varying energy requirements of the device.
- Secondary batteries are probably the best electrical buffer since they have a much higher energy density compared to capacitors and sufficient power pulse capability for most applications.
- A comparison will be made between rechargeable lithium coin, polymer and solid sate cells. The most important points for energy autarkic micro systems like energy density, pulse power capability, long term- and temperature stability will be made.
- In a second part of the presentation the development of silicon embedded micro batteries at Fraunhofer IZM will be outlined.
Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting (12:10 - 14:00)
12:10 - 12:35 "ZigBee Wireless Temperature Sensor Energized by a Thermo Generator"- Energy efficiency requires monitoring and diagnosis of electrical installations.
- The design of energy harvested wireless sensors is the most convenient solution.
- Since the use of a standard for wireless communication is always appreciated we developed a thermal energy powered ZigBee wireless temperature sensor.
12:35 Lunch
Wind Energy Harvesting (14:00 - 14:25)
14:00 - 14:25 "The microBelt - Non-Turbine Wind Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Networks"- The Windbelt Technology; a non-turbine energy generator that utilizes aeroelastic flutter to generate electricity efficiently and inexpensively.
- The microBelt is designed to fit Wireless Sensor Network Applications with an available wind resource and to either replace batteries or decrease the amount of storage needed by an application.
- Applications include HVAC control and monitoring, train and airplane WSNs, air quality monitoring, etc
- Intellectual Property of the Windbelt also covers advanced materials such as Piezoelectric and Electroactive Polymers
Progress with Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting (14:25 - 16:35)
14:25 - 14:50 "Smart Ceramics for Energy Harvesting"- Piezoceramics - the key for vibration energy harvesting
- Silicon Carbide - a new material approach for thermal generators
- Ceramics technologies for enhanced power output
- Introduction to InSensor® PZT (Lead Zirconate Titanate) thick film technology, including deposition and patterning techniques, available substrates and potential applications.
- Experimental setup, test structures of unimorphs fabricated using MEMS technology in combination with PZT thick films. Results of the measurements carried out using shaker system and reference accelerometer.
- Conclusions and summary, including prospects of manufacturing energy harvesting modules comprising sensors(e.g.accelerometers) or/and actuators leading to fully integrated energy autonomous devices when combined with wireless communication.
- Review of methods for widening the bandwidth of inertial energy harvester.
- Introducton to frequency tuning mechanism develped at Southampton
- Self powered control system to monitor ambient frequency and adjust generator's resonant frequency.
15:40 Coffee & Networking Break
- Piezoelectric materials as a microgenerator for harvesting energy on vibrations using the piezoelectric effect
- A microgenerator for harvesting energy on temperature variation using the pyroelectric effect.
- The harvesting power obtained from ceramic and polymer materials using the SSHI and nonlinear processing techniques and possible applications
Displays Suitable for Energy Harvesters (16:35 - 17:30)
16:35 - 17:00 ""No Power" Electrowetting Display Technology"- electrowetting technology basics
- transfer of technology to fully bistable displays
- application aspects
- ISA100.18 is now writing standards for Power Sources for Low Power Wireless Sensor Nodes (typically 802.15.4)
- Aims are :
- Process is open to all and wide industry cooperation is sought.
1.To ensure interchangeability of various Energy Harvesters with batteries and other power sources
2.To produce performance standards to enable comparison and selection
17:30 Day 2 Track 1 Ends
Wireless Sensor Networks, Active RFID & RTLS (09:00 - 12:10)
09:00 - 09:25 "Wireless RTLS Mesh Networks: No Wires Required"- 802.15.4 mesh networks based on time-synchronized, channel hopping protocols such as TSMP or WirelessHART offer carrier-class reliability and network-wide low power, enabling every node to operate for many years on batteries, energy harvesting power sources or line power.
- Integration of time-of-flight measurement functionality into 802.15.4 chipsets creates a breakthrough opportunity for a "no-wires" mesh network that supports more accurate location measurements than RSSI-based systems
- Wire-free mesh networks 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.
- Virtually eliminated down time
- Immediately enhanced quality control
- Vastly improved transparency
- WISEBED offers a federation of sensor networks in order to provide a large-scale experimental facility.
- The environment is very flexible: experiments are possible on every layer up to a full flashing of the node
- WISEBED offers a very convenient environment for users, including authentication, resource reservation, experiment description, and collection of results
- Bringing Precision indoor location to RTLS (10cm): Line of Sight of 500m, Indoor Line of Sight of > 110m, non Line of Sight of 45m
- Enabling energy harvesting techniques to be used in sensors
- Bringing RTLS capability to Wireless Sensors and mesh networking to RTLS
- Sampling Customers Q3 2010, Mass Production Q3 2011
10:40 Coffee & Networking Break
- Brief introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and the key relevant standards
- Detailed discussion of how WSN can implement Active RFID functions for tracking and monitoring assets
- Overview of a number of real Active RFID implementations using IEE802.15.4
- Summary of the use of WSN for location systems
Power Management (11:45 - 14:25)
11:45 - 12:10 "Zero Power Sensors using Energy Processing"- Advanced design techniques for power optimization
- Universal Energy Harvesting transducer interfaces
- Leveraging peak power tracking for improved performance
- Polarity-independent, ultra low-voltage DC-DC converters
- Selfadjusting AC-DC converters
- Low-power Maximum Power Point Trackers
12:35 Lunch
- Voltage is key - enabled by micro-structured thermoelectrics
- Characteristics of chip-scale thermogenerators
- Power budgeting and exploration - easy ways to find out what's possible
- Infinite power sources for today's and tomorrow's wireless applications
Ultra Low Power Devices (14:25 - 17:00)
14:25 - 14:50 "Energy Harvesting Challenges for Future Ultra-Low Power Micro Controllers"- Energy harvesting systems further challenge microcontrollers and offer opportunities for extended smart self-operating hardware functions. Energy efficiency benefits from inactive CPU, no code memory accesses and low bus activities.
- Energy efficiency is optimized on how the hardware is used by which software code sequences. Once this is optimized the encapsulation of this HW and SW enables rapid application development but retain the energy savings. The result of the previous energy optimization effort is still valid independent of later product modifications.
- Another requirement of energy harvester systems is the ability of the microcontroller to deal with changing energy conditions. The question is how can a microcontroller design ensure robust operation and support self-recovering?
- Wireless sensors spend most of the time doing nothing - so why waste power doing nothing.
- Interchangeable energy harvesters and why identification may be required.
- How Microdul's Mixed Signal semi-custom ASIC can simplify the design of energy harvesting conversion, storage and control.
- This presentation will outline the challenges facing energy scavenging device and radio engineers when developing the ultimate unobtrusive autonomous sensor node that: does not need a battery, uses an absolute minimum number of components, is small enough not to be noticeable, is, last but not least, low cost
- Core question is whether the holy grail is achievable or whether the laws of physics will get in the way.
15:40 Coffee & Networking Break
16:00 Conference resumes in Track 1
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