Exhibitors

Arveni sas is a privately held start-up, dedicated to piezoelectric energy harvesting, located near Grenoble (France). Arveni has developed its proprietary technology, protected by 7 patents so far. Arveni's team is made up of 3 highly skilled engineers, and we are focused on the most demanding applications. Arveni's products exist in 3 variants:

We will welcome customers, sales representatives, VCs and labs to our booth !

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.

DecaWave is a pioneering fabless semiconductor company which has developed a complete, single chip CMOS ultra wideband IC based on the IEEE802.15.4a standard, and building a family of parts to work at rates 110kbps, 850kbps, 6.8Mbps and 27Mbps.

 

DecaWave has identified the rich potential of ultra wideband (UWB) technology, with particular focus on real time location systems (RTLS), and ultra-low power wireless transceivers, and has been instrumental in developing the alternate PHY IEEE802.15.4a standard, for which it holds key intellectual property and numerous essential and non-essential patents.

 

DecaWave is currently working with a number of partner firms to develop and bring to market suitable applications for the RTLS and ultra-low power wireless transceiver marketplaces using its UWB technology, principally in the areas of manufacturing, healthcare, lighting, security, transport, inventory & supply chain management. Because it believes the opportunities inherent in IEEE802.15.4a to be so numerous, DecaWave is willing to share - under contract - critical core intellectual property with prospective, suitably qualified and resourced partner firms wishing to develop further markets for this technology.

 

DecaWave was founded in 2004, and is headquartered in Dublin Ireland. DecaWave is privately funded.

IDENTEC SOLUTIONS is the global leader in commercial active RFID, that include award-winning intelligent long-range active RFID technology. IDENTEC SOLUTIONS' technology and products are utilized by some of the world's largest companies to facilitate and better manage critical processes or to help track valuable assets in a completely reliable and secure manner. The Intelligent Long Range® (ILR®) active RFID System can identify, locate, track and communicate with assets at a distance of up to 500 meters (1,500 feet) to deliver superior supply chain real-time visibility in dynamic, demanding environments.

 

IDENTEC SOLUTIONS' expertise and experience is utilized by systems integrators and end customers worldwide in the automotive, transportation and logistics, and aerospace and defense industries. As a longtime industry leader, IDENTEC SOLUTIONS has provided asset management solutions and support for a variety of organizations, such as Volkswagen, Deutsche Post and General Electric. IDENTEC SOLUTIONS is headquartered in Lustenau, Austria, the company's U.S. headquarters is located in Dallas, Texas, and maintains offices worldwide to support its global operations and customers.

Holst Centre is an independent centre for open innovation that develops generic technologies and technology platforms for wireless autonomous transducer solutions and systems-in-foil. It is founded in 2005 by the research organizations IMEC and TNO. A key feature is interaction and cooperation with industry and academia. It is this kind of cross-fertilization that enables Holst Centre to tune its scientific strategy to industrial needs.

Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS) - a U.S.-based, clean-technology company - is the global leader in developing, marketing and manufacturing solid-state, rechargeable thin-film micro-energy storage devices for a variety of micro-electronic applications. Founded in 2001, IPS is privately held with corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Littleton, Colorado. The company has completed build-out of the world's first volume manufacturing facility dedicated to the production of its revolutionary thin-film Micro-Energy Cell (MEC) products. IPS has recently commenced production activities at this state-of-the-art facility to address the growing demand among customers in the wireless sensor, active RFID, powered smart card, medical device, consumer electronics, automotive and civil/military/aerospace markets. Additional information about IPS is available at www.InfinitePowerSolutions.com

 

Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through design, sales and manufacturing operations in more than 30 countries. For more information, go to www.ti.com.

CeramTec AG is an international leading company in the field of advanced ceramics. Its expertise in piezoceramic smart materials for energy-harvesting applications is represented in a wide product range: Piezoceramic multilayer actuators, Macro Fiber Composites as composite and highly flexible devices, a broad variety of soft and hard type piezoceramic materials, bending elements and piezoceramic plates, discs or rings.

With 2900 employees in Europe, America and Asia, a turnover of 300 million Euro, and a high variety of products and ceramic materials CeramTec serves the electronics, telecommunications, automotive, medical, machinery, metalworking, electrical and chemical industries with innovative products worldwide.

EnOcean is the originator of patented self-powered wireless technology. Headquartered in Oberhaching near Munich, the company manufactures and markets maintenance-free wireless sensor solutions for use in buildings and industrial installations. EnOcean products are based on a combination of miniaturized energy converters, ultra-low-power electronic circuitry and reliable wireless. There are already wireless components in use in more than 100,000 buildings. EnOcean GmbH is a promoter of the EnOcean Alliance, a federation of leading companies from the world's building sector that has set itself the aim of creating innovative solutions for sustainable building. EnOcean has received a number of awards in recent years - for example the Elektra awards 2008: "Wireless & Telecoms Design" and "Company of the Year". EnOcean currently employs 50 people in Germany and the USA.

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 Energy Harvesting Network brings together the energy harvesting community in Europe to explore applications and new directions for research. This network, funded by the UK's EPSRC, has a primary aim of defining new research challenges that will help to deliver on the potential of energy harvesting. It will catalyse the creation of new multidisciplinary teams to bid for funding and address these challenges. It also has an event and communications programme to ensure that the advances in the science and the developments of the technology are more widely disseminated particularly to the potential end-user communities.

 

The scientific field of the Fraunhofer IKTS is focussed on the development and application of modern high performance ceramic materials, such as piezoelectric ceramic. The Smart Materials and Systems Department uses its extensive experience in science and engineering to develop and integrate industry-relevant dielectric functional ceramics into devices, microsystems and active structures, such as piezoelectric generators. The department has special competence in the field of complex perovskites which introduce actuating, sensing, generator and electronic functions in monolithic devices and systems. The complete technological development process is available. This expertise, combined with unique modelling and characterization tools.

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

 

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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.

Microchip are able to assist you with all aspects of your energy design. We know that accuracy, reliability and total system cost are important factors in your design applications.

 

Microchip's complete portfolio of 8- and 16-bit PIC® microcontrollers, energy measurement ICs, analog components and serial EEPROMs allows you to drive directly inexpensive LED and LCD displays, add wireless communication for automated meter reading, implement anti-tampering techniques, enjoy low power design with nanoWatt technology and integrate real time clock for advanced billing schemes. Not just experts in providing microcontroller, EEPROM and analogue solutions, our global team of field applications engineers can help with software examples or calibration techniques and a comprehensive range of reference designs.

 

Visit www.microchip.com for more information.

Microdul AG is a specialist for high quality microelectronics and ultra low-power electronic circuits. Microdul has a broad range and depth of experience covering industrial, medical and consumer applications. Thanks to Microdul's three business lines Modules, Thick-film and Semiconductors, there is a wide spectrum of choice with respect to electronic miniaturisation.

Our core competence is the production of cutting edge individual solutions in close cooperation with the customer.

 

For Energy Harvesting applications, our experience of supplying the Swiss Watch industry gives us the ability to manufacture custom circuits with ultra low-power consumption.

The Advanced Circuits and Sensors Branch at SSC-SD previously housed the Integrated Circuit Fabrication Facility (ICFF) which served as the Navy's principle site for the development of advanced silicon-based integrated circuit materials, designs, devices and fabrication technologies. The new "Fab-less" design group has retained all previous design and test capabilities as well as fabrication knowledge and design expertise. Particular attention is directed to technologies that are of interest to the Department of Defense but are not currently part of the commercial mainstream in integrated circuit and sensor development. Examples include long-term commitments to the development and maintenance of radiation-hard processes based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) substrates as well as sensor development including MEMS-based devices. Combined with an emphasis on development and pilot-scale production is the high level of manufacturing discipline that is a prerequisite for the transfer of technology to industry when larger-scale production builds are required.

The Advanced Integrated Circuits and Sensors Branch at SSC San Diego is fully capable of performing any task in integrated circuit and sensor design to packaging and testing. It serves as a technology research and development center, maintaining a reservoir of government expertise in IC and sensor manufacturing. It is currently pursuing cooperative agreements with academic, government and industry partners on projects of interest to the Department of Defense and other government agencies.

The Sensors and Instrumentation Knowledge Transfer Network connects industry and the research community to exchange knowledge and exploit sensing technologies. It has broad interest in all sensing technologies and other technologies that support successful deployment. The Wireless Sensing Interest Group (WiSIG) of the KTN promotes links and collaboration between individuals active in wireless communications and sensor technologies. The group has been exploring opportunities, applications and successful deployment of short-range wireless technologies and continues to advise industry on its uses and benefits. Energy harvesting approaches to enable wireless sensing are of great interest to this group.