A Practical Example of Powering WSNs with Solar and Micro Energy Storage (Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe 2011)

Richard Percival is Director of Strategic Accounts at Infinite Power Solutions in Littleton, Colorado. Mr. Percival graduated in Physics & Mathematics from St Andrews University in Scotland and began his career designing Boolean Logic in the wireless communications division at the Marconi Company, followed by a decade with National Semiconductor in the U.S. and Europe. Richard has worked as a consultant and held senior technical and business management positions throughout Europe and the United States.

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.