Powering the New Generation of Industrial Wireless Senor Nodes with Vibration Energy Harvesting

 

Mr. Keith J. Abate Sr. is the Director of Business Development for Perpetuum. Keith has a B.S.E.E. and over 25 years of international technical, sales, marketing and business development experience within the Energy, Industrial, Aerospace and Semiconductor markets. Keith has extensive experience in the definition and deployment of wired and wireless dynamic sensor monitoring projects for Land, Air, Space and Sea applications. He has successfully managed and deployed measurement and monitoring solutions in the civil, commercial, consumer and military market segments. Prior to Perpetuum, Keith has held ranking positions with Meggitt, Teradyne, Fairchild, Schlumberger and Hewlett Packard.

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.