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 is developing a full family of single chip CMOS products based on the IEEE802.15.4a standard that reach unprecedented performance in location precision and range at very low power and very low cost.

 

DecaWave has been instrumental in developing the alternate PHY IEEE802.15.4a standard and has successively combined the rich potential of the Ultra Wideband Technology (UWB) with its Intellectual Property (DecaWave owns several essential and non-essential patents) to offer a product family that creates a true disruption in the Real-time Location Systems (RTLS) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) markets.

 

In the last year DecaWave has received huge acceptance and strong market endorsement, establishing business relationships with 900 customers worldwide including major players and industry leaders, principally in the areas of healthcare, lighting, security and defence, transport, inventory & supply chain management and also Smart Grid, ESL and Agriculture. High volume consumer markets such as Mobile and Wireless Access Point markets, but also Automotive, are considering using DecaWave's technology for value added end-user applications.

 

After having shipped over 25 demonstration prototype kits to renowned companies that validated the DecaWave's technology, DecaWave is now introducing the first IEEE802.15.4a IC to the market with customer sampling started in January 2011.

 

DecaWave was founded in 2004, and is headquartered in Dublin Ireland, and has offices in Toulouse, France, and San Jose, CA. DecaWave is privately funded.

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IDENTEC SOLUTIONS delivers innovative wireless sensor-based technology and systems that are helping transform the way business manages industrial processes and safeguards lives.

 

Committed to developing industry-leading, low power and long-range sensor-based technology, IDENTEC SOLUTIONS' SensorSMART networks have been setting the industry standard since 1999. Currently deployed on every continent throughout the globe in the Intermodal & Logistics, Energy & Construction industries as well as sought out by the world's leading system integrators and governments; IDENTEC SOLUTIONS patented technology is helping to optimize productivity in some of the continent's most challenging situations. Robust, flexible and powerful IDENTEC SOLUTIONS technology delivers when others cannot.

 

IDENTEC SOLUTIONS is privately held, with its corporate office located in Lustenau, Austria, and North American headquarters in Dallas, Texas, along with customer service centers in Germany, Australia and Norway.

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.

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.

Texas Instruments semiconductor innovations help 80,000 customers unlock the possibilities of the world as it could be - smarter, safer, greener, healthier and more fun. Our commitment to building a better future is ingrained in everything we do - from the responsible manufacturing of our semiconductors, to caring for our employees, to giving back inside our communities.

TI offers smarter grid solutions through innovative products, leading edge software and compliant integrated system solutions. TI's Smart Grid portfolio uniquely combines readily available silicon, software and support for comprehensive grid infrastructure, utility meters and home or building automation systems.

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

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.

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.

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.

 

We seek your input - company progress, press releases, case studies and developments, which in turn we will feature as future articles. Please forward these to us - email Tessa Henderson at .

 

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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.

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.

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 energy harvesting, printed electronics, RFID, electric vehicles and allied technologies.

 

You can trust IDTechEx to help you build your business. We provide consultancy, market research and executive-level events across the US, Europe and Asia.

Intesens designs autonomous wireless sensor networks for health monitoring applications. The company is specialized in the field of predictive maintenance of industrial equipments. The aim is to understand the health of equipment and to generate an alarm if a failure is ready to appear.

For this purpose, the company developed competencies in the integration of wireless sensor networks (Zigbee, Sixlowpan, Wavenis, etc.), energy harvesting architectures (Inductive, Vibration, Thermal and Solar) and embedded diagnostics (data reduction, FFT, cycle calculation, etc.).

Intesens provides custom development services to design specific solutions. The company also offers standard products as diagnostic kits.

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.

Tadiran Batteries is a leader in the development and manufacture of lithium batteries for industrial use. Its Lithium Thionyl Chloride (LTC) technology is well established for more than 25 years. Tadiran LTC-Batteries are suitable where a 3.6 Volt high energy primary battery is required for up to ten years and more stand alone operation.

The PulsesPlus™ technology, combining a Hybrid Layer Capacitor (HLC) that can provide high current pulses with a high energy primary cell, has been successfully introduced into the market and plays a significant role especially where GSM modules require a long-term stand-alone power source.