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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. THINERGY 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.

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.

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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ITT-Acoustic Systems, located in Salt Lake City, UT, is North America's largest supplier of piezoelectric ceramic. For the last 60 years ITT, formerly EDO, has provided piezo ceramics and integrated systems to the commercial and military markets. ITT Acoustic Systems has applied our advanced piezo ceramic materials and processing knowledge to the Energy Harvesting Market. Development of complete systems from the energy harvester to web based reporting tools is no longer a vision but within the grasp and capability of ITT - Acoustic Systems and ITT-Industrial Products. ITT - "Engineered for life".

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. Follow Us on Twitter! http://twitter.com/#!/Marlow_Ind

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.

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.

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.

Omnitrol Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of converged service-oriented application network solutions for the emerging wireless, RFID and sensor automation market. The company's award-winning OMNITROL appliance and Edge Application and Services Engine (EASE™) software have pioneered the market for "Always On" real-time web-based operational visibility and automation solutions. The OMNITROL's unique edge-centric solution architecture offers the industry's most flexible and reliable means to deploy scalable application intelligent networks at the lowest total cost of ownership in the market. Omnitrol Networks is a privately held company with corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. Additional information about Omnitrol Networks' products and services are available on our website.

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.

Proxima RF™ has created the next generation of affordable proximity temperature sensing and ID devices for the cold chain and logistics industry. Our HF RFID readers are optimized to work with our suite of passive, energy harvesting temperature sensor tags, wireless dataloggers and sensor probes used where the water content in food stuffs present difficulty for other RFID technology. Proxima RF enables system integrators to create user-friendly proximity sensing solutions with ready-to-ship readers, supporting API, optional hosted data-trending software, OEM designs and sensor tag modules.

Savi Technology provides an integrated suite of complementary Automatic Identification & Data Capture technology products and solutions that drive business value by reducing supply chain assets, inventory and operational costs for commercial enterprises, defense agencies and other government customers. Founded in 1989, Savi is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin NYSE: LMT, with headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., and offices in London, Melbourne, Singapore, Lexington, Ky., and Washington, D.C.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ULVAC Inc. is an equipment manufacturer with a large equipment portfolio, some of which is dedicated to state-of-the-art, thin film, lithium-ion battery manufacturing. This equipment range includes discrete (single) substrate battery fabrication, as well as, manufacturing equipment for flexible (roll-to-roll) substrates. For discrete substrate battery fabrication, ULVAC features a complete suite of manufacturing equipment, including a combination of DC and RF sputtering and thermal evaporation systems. The thin film battery: anode, cathode, and electrolyte film layers, and battery package, can be deposited using this suite of equipment.

Sensing Planet is a cloud-based platform as a service that provides real-time online instrumentation, management and control of any connected sensor network or devices. With "At-A-Glance" monitoring of any sensors, devices or cameras through any browser, it easily integrates into legacy networks or applications. The Platform provides rules-based notifications as well as powerful life-to-date reporting on a highly secure and guaranteed 100% uptime infrastructure.

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.

 

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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.