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Tuesday June 21, 2011
Opening Presentation (08:40 - 08:55)
08:40 - 08:55 "Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensor Networks: Markets, Needs, Opportunities"
- User needs by industry
- Ten year forecasts by energy harvesting and storage technology
- Ten year forecasts for WSN
- Smart buildings, EVs and the smart grid - massive new opportunities
Keynote Presentations (08:55 - 14:30)
08:55 - 09:25 "Energy Harvesting for Electronic Sport Products"- Overview of Oxylane
- The energy consumption of electronic sport products
- Potential needs and user requirements for harvesting energy in sport products
- Gives overview of United Technologies, The Research Center and our capabilities
- Looks at specific needs for long life sensors in buildings for energy management, security and building system networking
- Discusses our focus and interest on developing collaborative efforts in the area of energy harvesting and our current collaboration efforts
- Gives our perspective on the state of energy harvesting relative to the needs of our commercial business units, OTIS, Carrier and UTC Fire and Security.
10:25 Break
- What is Condition Monitoring
- What are the applications for Wireless Systems in area of Condition Monitoring
- Why are Energy Harvesters a good fit for Wireless Condition Monitoring Applications
- Motivation for wireless sensor deployment in a gas turbine environment
- Description of the operating environment
- Wireless sensor topologies - alignment of requirements with COTS product availability
- Test results and existing challenges
- Cost follows power. Lower consumption yields smaller and cheaper solutions
- Optimizing power consumption
- Energy Histogram vs. Mode
- Trade-off vs. Operating Period
- Mode management
- Optimizing harvest power
- Break-even concept
- Max-Power Design and Max-Power Tracking
- Achieving perpetual. When PHarvest>PConsumption, the device becomes self sufficient
- Enabling >15 year life for 802.15.4 based wireless sensors networks using solar energy harvesting and solid-state micro energy storage
- Examples of using ultra-low power methods to control external sensors
- Using dynamic energy balancing techniques to monitor incoming energy and dynamically adjust the energy leaving the system
13:05 LUNCH
Assisted Living and Healthcare Applications (14:30 - 16:15)
14:30 - 14:55 "SensFloor - A Large-area Wireless Sensor System for Ambient Assisted Living"- Principle and integration technology
- Applications
- System aspects
- Implementations
- An easy and fast construction of biofuel cells based onphysical inclusion of enzymes and redox mediators within prssed graphite discs.
- Mediatorless high-power glucose biofuel cells based on compressed carbon nanotube-enzyme electrodes.
- In vivo demonstration of performance of a biofuel cell implanted in the retroperitoneal space of freely moving rats.
- Presents several platforms developed in the last ten years in the frame of research projects targeting different applications.
- Includes health care and rehabilitation to security purposes.
- Special emphasis will be given to the description of technical and functional solutions implemented to satisfy functional and comfort requirements.
15:45 Break
Energy Harvesting Applied (16:15 - 16:40)
16:15 - 16:40 "Energy Harvesting In Automotive Applications"- Solar, thermoelectric, dynamic, multimodal harvesting
- Technology principles
- Energy harvesting concepts and devices
Application of Energy Harvesters to Textiles/Fabrics (16:40 - 17:55)
16:40 - 17:05 "Smart Multifunctional Fibre for Energy Harvesting from Nature"- A novel technology has been developed that integrates piezoelectric polymer substrate and photovoltaic coating system to create a film or fibre structure that is capable of harvesting energy from nature, including sun, rain, wind, wave and tide.
- The raw materials used are inexpensive starting with the piezoelectric material which is extruded and poled.
- Since the organic photovoltaic material system is made in a normal atmospheric environment, the cost associated with the whole structure is manifold less expensive than ceramic based photovoltaic.
- The resultant material system is flexible and can be incorporated in textiles for a wide variety of applications.
- The combination of electronics with textiles provides a platform for ubiquitous sensing to support people in a manifold of situations like hospitalization, rehabilitation, sports etc. A key step towards the acceptance of smart textiles is developing textiles in which electronics are fully integrated.
- We developed a method to combine electronics with textiles during the weaving process of fabrics. This method allows the integration of sensors and actuators in textiles, as well as the necessary interconnect lines for powering and controlling the electronic devices.
- As examples of this technology, a bus structure and a matrix structure are realized and presented.
- Universal platform for remote controlled delivery: scientific concept of the device
- Development of the reactive encapsulating system
- Active substrate: Release studies
- Controlling electronics
Signage and Media (17:55 - 18:20)
17:55 - 18:20 "The powerfull potential of ECOOH: Ecological Out Of Home advertising"
- Why advertising is poised to go green.
- ECOOH in Digital out of home, Point Of Sales and Brand activation
- Energy harvesting technologies for exisiting media
- New media formats and applications for ECOOH
- solarbanners: media that create "brand energy".
18:20 Day 1 Track 1 Ends
Thermoelectric Energy Harvesters (14:30 - 14:55)
14:30 - 14:55 "Optimized, Low ΔT Thermoelectric Energy Harvesters for Water, Air or Solid Heat Sources and Sinks"- Optimized thermal energy harvesters for water or air streams and solid surfaces to power applications with as little as 5 degree system temperature differences.
- Thermal and electrical matching of system thermal resistances and electrical loads of the DC-DC converters results in cost effective, low couple count thermoelectric generators.
Wireless Sensor Applications (14:55 - 15:20)
14:55 - 15:20 "Next Generation Light Harvesting Technology for Wireless Sensor Applications"- Power profiles of SolarPV - Power Density not efficiency
- Key benefits of Dye Solar Cells for wireless sensors
- Key innovations
- Integrated customer solutions.
Mesh and Sensor Networking: New Developments (15:20 - 18:20)
15:20 - 15:45 "Technologies for Next Generation Sensor & Actuator Networks"- ZESAN research project - reliable and energy-efficient wireless sensor and actuator networks in building automation, plant monitoring and process automation
- Main goals are increasing energy efficiency and reliability
- Technologies investigated by ZESAN include, ultra-wide-band communication; MIMO; localization, dynamical routing, transport protocols, and Internet protocols for field devices
- Energy harvesting solutions have been investigated and a low power wake-up receiver has been developed to improve energy efficiency
- Network control over wireless multi-hop networks
15:45 Break
- Dynamic world applications present numerous challenges to mainstream WSN protocols. Smart Wireless Devices on the networks are required to be constantly connected and be able to intelligently adapt to always changing mobile environments in real time speeds. No longer can centralized logic approach satisfy ever-growing demands of dynamic networks.
- Next Gen WSN provides high performance mesh networking to enable new applications with mobility and flexibility. Dynamic Meshing logic eliminates all barriers mainstream WSN protocols could not overcome.
- Numerous additional opportunities arise with ability to combine RFID, Power Harvesting and Dynamic Meshing WSN technologies.
- IEEE 802.15.4 wireless mesh networks based on time-synchronized, channel hopping standards such as IEC62591 (WirelessHART) offer carrier-class reliability and network-wide low power, enabling every node to operate for many years on batteries or energy harvesting power sources.
- New low power wireless standards, such as ZigBee Green Power, 6LoWPAN and 802.15.4E, will bring ultra low power wireless sensors powered by energy harvesting to even broader markets.
- Examples of a variety of low power wireless mesh network applications will be presented, including data center energy management, equipment condition monitoring and process plant efficiency.
- Location aware, wire-free mesh networks can 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.
- The Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP), is a programmable, battery-free sensing and computational platform designed to explore sensor enhanced RFID applications.
- The WISP's 16-bit, ultralow power microcontroller and PCB design allows for easy integration of new sensors and peripherals, and the rapid development of new applications.
- The WISP is a passive RFID tag, which is completely powered by a standard UHF RFID reader and is compatible with the EPC Gen2 RFID protocol.
- Demonstrated WISP applications include: environmental monitoring, cryptography, activity inferencing, sleep quality monitoring, a zero power interface for WSN nodes and a pacemaker, RFID based sensor networks, measurement of foot pronation while walking, and a wirelessly powered neural interface.
- Scensor: Announcing the World's first IEEE802.15.4a UWB wireless transceiver with coherent receiver featuring high location precision, very low power and very low cost.
- Chips available on demos (Two-way ranging and TDOA)
- Production ready silicon to be sampled to customers from November 2011
- ScenSor to sell at 2 Euro in volume.
- Scensor has received tremendous market acceptance and endorsement across all verticals.
18:20 Day 1 Track 2 Ends
Wednesday June 22, 2011
Footstep Harvesting for Grid Replacement (08:30 - 10:45)
08:30 - 09:55 "Energy Harvesting from Ground - Possibilities and Technical Realisation"- Dynamic weight changes that occur when entering or driving on floor surfaces can be converted into electrical energy.
- As transformation principle the piezoelectric effect is used.
- By using special polymer films (PVDF), it is possible to produce extremely robust, highly reliable and inexpensive generator modules.
- PVDF-generator modules and their operational behavior will be presented.
- Powering wireless sensors by human footfall
- Using in-floor piezoelectric devices as an energy harvesting source + a sensory input
- Anonymous occupancy detection for retail and security applications
- The presentation will focus on the energy available from under-floor harvesting devices including measurement of ground reaction force generated under different circumstances.
- It will also outline two novel electromagnetic converter systems which provide relatively high power output.
- The design of the converters and an evaluation of their performance will be presented.
10:10 Break
Energy Harvesting for Vehicles (10:45 - 11:35)
10:45 - 11:10 "Energy Harvesting for an 'Intelligent' Tire"- Short introduction of the 'intelligent' tire concept
- Latest results on piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters as energy source
- The possibilities of RF energy transfer for automotive applications
- Electrical active suspension
- Electrical drive-train
- Super charging
- Electrical gearing
Metrology Requirements for Energy Harvesting (11:35 - 12:00)
11:35 - 12:00 "Energy Harvesting Technology: Metrology Requirements for Commercialisation"- Metrology plays a significant role in commercialisation potential of energy harvesting technologies
- A new European research project aims to tackle some of these issues via an exciting collaboration between 7 national measurement institutes with connections to industry
- Energy sources of interest
- thermoelectric, piezoelectric, magnetostriction, electrostatic
- medium energy range (W to kW) down to low power requirements (μW to mW)
The Venture Capitalist View (12:00 - 13:35)
12:00 - 12:25 "Investing in Energy Harvesting & Storage: The VC view"12:25 LUNCH
Significant Energy Storage Progress (13:35 - 14:25)
13:35 - 14:00 "Ultrathin, Flexible Supercapacitors and their use in a Flexible Integrated "GreenPatch" Device for use in Green Buildings and smart Infrastructure"- We show data on our supercapacitors and characterize them in terms of charge/discharge cycling, self-discharge voltage, leakage current, capacitance and ESR.
- We show the use of a GreenPatch to implement a Green Building.
- Data will show that the GreenPatch can be used to measure energy usage per zone (lighting, HVAC, temperature), provide energy saving recommendations, and can send automated commands for e.g. lighting, HVAC etc.
- Our supercapacitors can carry large currents, thus allowing for an increased range of transmitted data and commands.
- The printing technology enables automatic construction of supercapacitors that are manufactured in large wafers and cut into final dimensions, it results in the reduction of labor cost and improved uniformity.
- The technology and properties of the supercapacitors will be presented, with special emphasize on the use for energy harvesting applications.
Vibration and Motion Based Energy Harvester (14:25 - 16:10)
14:25 - 14:50 "Wireless Sensor Node Powered by Very Low Acoustic Structural Vibrations"- Piezoelectric generator design for low vibration amplitudes
- Transducer material and manufacturing technology selection
- Some issues on electronics for power transfer and wireless sensor node
- Software optimizations due to low power energy supply
- Presenting energy harvester using magnetostrictive material, simple, small, robust, high efficiency and high power generation suitable for tire pressure monitoring system
- Piezoelectric sensors based Keyboards (Dynapic & Dynasim technology)
- Piezoelectric polymer composites for Energy Harvesting
- Piezoelectric membrane based self-powered Wireless Switch
15:40 Break
New Photovoltaic Options: Printed & Flexible (15:40 - 17:25)
16:10 - 16:35 "Printed Photovoltaics: Current Progress and Commercialisation Successes"- Why the increased need for energy harvesting in electrical devices
- Nanostructured III-V solar cells - suited to power generation for electrical devices
- SunFlake - current status and roadmap
- We will review the state of the art of performance of organic PV cells and the stability that is achieved with current products.
- The power generated from OPV modules in actual rooftop exposure is compared for some selected technologies to show that the competitiveness of OPV is closer than expected.
17:25 Day 2 Track 1 Ends
Home and Industrial Automation - Rapid Roll-Out (08:30 - 11:10)
08:30 - 08:55 "Energy Harvesting Wireless in Volume Deployment"- Latest developments in Technology, Products and Applications of integrated self-powered wireless systems
- Thermo energy source for wireless sensors & actuators, self-powered CO2 sensor, mini switch module, etc.
- Some latest deployment cases (residential and commercial buildings, industrial, other)
- Wireless sensor networks for home & building monitoring help reducing energy consumption & carbon emissions.
- Improved visibility and predictive maintenance through simple, comprehensive and accurate conditioning & meter data collection.
- Selected case studies demonstrating real customer benefits.
10:10 Break
- Motivation and challenges for autonomous devices in industry
- Favorite system architectures and requirements for energy harvesting technologies based on realistic use cases in process automation
- Experiences, experiments and demonstrators examples
Real Time Locating Systems: Roll-Out (11:10 - 11:35)
11:10 - 11:35 "Wi-Fi AP Database Sharing Architecture for Global Location Tracking"- Why we need to share Wi-Fi AP Database across the LBS companies
- Suggests Technical Architecture and Messaging Protocol for sharing Wi-Fi AP Database
Ultra Low Power Electronics and System Design (11:35 - 16:10)
11:35 - 12:00 "Power Management Considerations for Energy Harvesting Systems"- Describes some of the key considerations for designing an energy harvesting power management solution and the effect of ambient condiitons
- The key design goal then is to match the power harvesting circuits to the application circuits for the best performance
- Key considerations for power management of energy harvesting systems include the profile of the energy source, the power requirements of the application, the characteristics of the harvester, the energy storage element capability and the performance of the power management.
- Overview of Microchip's newest XLP MCUs
- Overview of Microchip's latest low power radios & Protocols
- Case study of RF Harvesting
- Case study of Solar Harvesting
12:25 LUNCH
- Power electronic requirements for electromagnetic, electrostatic and piezoelectric harvester
- Adaptive control of harvester resonant frequency and damping
- The need for a holistic approach to the design of harvesters and load electronics
- Tiny Smart System, Big Energy Problem.
- The System Design
- Energy Conversion Model
- System Model
- How to put things together smartly?
- Power savings by proprietary wireless solutions
- Using Custom System on Chip for miniaturisation and low power
- The ASIC advantage
- Design for short Time To Market
- The talk introduces the general sensor node architecture and two types of wireless sensor node design approaches first.
- Then several design guidelines are given with the emphases on the selection of microcontroller, communication device, sensors, and power supply. A wireless node with temperature and carbon monoxide (CO) sensors are illustrated as an example.
- At the end enlarging the lifetime of sensor nodes, the biggest challenge in the hardware design for WSNs, is addressed from two aspects - power management, i.e. reducing the power consumption, and energy scavenging.
- Challenges of Adaptive Power Management
- Circuit Examples: DC-DC Converters, AC-DC Converters
- Demonstrators and Applications
15:40 Break
