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Battery Elimination in Electronics: Market Impact IoT, 6G, Healthcare, Wearables 2021-2041

Wireless Energy transfer WET, 6G Communications WIET, energy harvesting, supercapacitors, structural, printed, flexible

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Battery-Free Electronics Grabs Market Share
In numbers, most wireless electronics is already battery-free yet portable. Much more is on the way as detailed in the unique new analysis by IDTechEx report, "Battery Elimination in Electronics: Market Impact IoT, 6G, Healthcare, Wearables 2021-2041". Covering over 150 organisations in 300 pages, the scope is unprecedented. Few markets go from under $8 billion to over $120 billion in 2041. This one does.
 
Learn how researchers are progressing no less than four routes to the batteryless implanted heart pacemaker and defibrillator eliminating battery-driven deaths. Triboelectricity, piezoelectricity, electrodynamics and RF wireless energy transfer are in the frame. One lab has a battery-free optogenics device to control neuronal activation. Meanwhile, in addition to a cool 127 billion backscatter RFID and anti-theft tags being deployed without batteries this year, an increasing variety of companies have battery-free in their strapline. For instance, Thrive and Battery-Free both trumpet "battery-free wearables".
 
For safety and reliability, you can buy battery-free airman's headphones or boat telephones and oxygen and carbon monoxide sensors. In Africa, batteryless lights, radio and foetal heart monitors are charged by rotating a crank or pulling. Pedal a computer.
 
It is just a beginning. India and China have launched electrostatic facemasks that destroy bacteria and viruses and grab particulates with triboelectrics replacing the battery meaning no pollution on disposal and lower cost. Potential is billions. The world will need 100 million battery-free continuous glucose sensors yearly for the diabetes epidemic. That will be unusual progress beyond a similar yearly number of perpetual piezoelectric gas lighters.
 
"No wires, no batteries, no limits" is throughout the EnOcean Alliance with 4000 inter-operable eco-system options for smart homes, buildings and spaces based on the maintenance-free radio standard (ISO/IEC 14543-3-10/11). See them in over one million buildings already - the most widespread and most field-tested wireless building automation standard in the world.
 
The new IDTechEx report explains how more-advanced wireless energy transfer WET, multi-mode energy harvesting and supercapacitors will take things much further. Additionally, 6G Communications around 2030 promises instant massive data to and from unpowered devices and even charging your supercapacitor smartphone from its signal beams. Others demonstrate battery-free cellphones by other routes. Combine such batteryless technologies and even grander achievements are possible. Flexible harvesting on supercapacitor layers gets them into stranger places.
 
The report is commercially oriented and easily grasped with large numbers of new infograms, pictures, graphs, interviews and comparison tables. Prepared by PhD level analysts across the world, many of whom have studied these subjects for over 20 years, it answers such questions as:
  • Why is there more urgency to replace batteries and in what sectors?
  • Situation in Healthcare, Communications, Personal Electronics, Third World, IoT, other?
  • Benefits, including enhanced safety, even saving lives?
  • Opportunities from the fit-and-forget trend?
  • Toolbox of 6G Communications WIET, WET, next energy harvesting, biofuelcells, supercapacitors?
  • Where will they be combined and why the pivot to triboelectrics, multimode flexible etc.?
  • How, when for battery-free implants, continuous glucose monitors, smartwatches, cellphones, IoT?
  • Technology, standards and adoption roadmaps 2021-2041?
  • Market sizes 2021-2041?
  • What does the research pipeline tell us?
 
The Executive Summary and Conclusions is a quick read for those in a hurry, giving 13 key conclusions with all the trends and possibilities compared and 34 examples including lessons of a pictured cellphone and IoT teardown. See best harvesting technologies, 6G, supercapacitor and device roadmaps 2021-2041. The 40 forecasts of Chapter 2 are mostly calculated by IDTechEx. The Introduction consolidates needs, trends, options, methodology (6 routes), new focus and new toolbox to batteryless with nine examples. Consideration ranges from LPWAN to virus-destroying electrostatic facemasks and Samsung smartphone styluses.
 
The deep dive then begins with a chapter on Healthcare and Wearables - 20 packed pages including 20 examples, four routes to battery-free embedded heart assistance, triboelectric and biofuelcell breakthroughs, future. Learn why harvesting lower frequency "infrasound" is better than vibration harvesting for all wearables. Chapter 5 is IoT, SRWN such as Bluetooth, LPWAN battery elimination, 22 pages of comparisons, examples, predictions, possibilities. IoT is seriously assessed, distinguishing cynical renaming of existing things from genuinely new business that will be enabled by battery elimination.
 
Chapter 6 covers 6G Communications' promised Wireless Information and Energy Transfer WIET eliminating batteries. It has 12 packed pages of new infograms, tables, pictures. See how 5G and 6G fit in, the appraisal again being critical not adulation. Chapter 7 assesses the six routes to batteryless cellphones and wearables with such things as six harvesting cost projections, device power projections, combinational options, WET, the University of Washington battery-free cellphone and HD video streaming in seven pages. Chapter 8, 11 pages, is battery elimination by Wireless Energy Transfer WET to RFID and NFC, a huge success already, and potentially one in Real Time Locating Systems RTLS, the new 6G Communications promising breakthrough.
 
Chapter 9 "Eliminating batteries from building controls" takes 22 pages to compare technologies and opportunities with many examples detailed and big names NEC, Toshiba, Yamaha, ABB, Siemens. Chapters 10 and 11 are exceptionally long and thorough examinations of the principal tools of battery elimination - energy harvesting and supercapacitors both experiencing radical change, new options and variants and improvement in 2020/2021. Only the IDTechEx report, ""Battery Elimination in Electronics: Market Impact IoT, 6G, Healthcare, Wearables 2021-2041" has this latest news and insight, essential in such a fast-moving subject.
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1.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1.1.Purpose of this report
1.2.Top ten electronic devices by number
1.3.Top ten electronic devices by power choices and issues
1.4.Some reasons for eliminating small batteries by application
1.5.Thirteen key conclusions
1.6.Three principles of batteryless operation of electronic/ electrical devices
1.7.Further conclusions
1.8.Energy harvesting options to power electronic and small electric devices
1.9.Promising future applications by preferred energy harvesting technology - examples
1.10.Example of battery issues: Galaxy S10+ phone teardown
1.11.LPWAN/ IOT node teardown and battery elimination Battery cost share
1.12.IoT battery elimination example March 2021
1.13.Roadmap for electronic device harvesting 2021-2041
1.14.6G Communications roadmap to battery elimination 2021-2041
1.15.Supercapacitor and device roadmap of battery elimination in electronics 2021-2041
2.MARKET FORECASTS
2.1.Wireless electronics and small electric devices without batteries by type 2021 and 2041
2.2.Wireless electronics and small electric devices without batteries % $billion by sector 2041
2.3.IoT LPWAN connections
2.4.RFID forecasts
2.5.Thermoelectric energy harvesting for electronics: units, unit price, market value 2020-2040
2.6.Thermoelectric energy harvesting for electronics 2019-2030 - dollars million
2.7.Thermoelectric energy harvesting transducers by application number, price, market value 2019-2030
2.8.Thermoelectric energy harvesting for electronics 2019-2030 - unit value dollars
2.9.Thermoelectric energy harvesting transducers by application 2019-2030 - dollars million
2.10.Piezoelectric energy harvesting for electronics: market units, unit price, market value 2020-2040
2.11.Piezoelectric energy harvesting for electronics: number, price, market value 2020-2030
2.12.Piezoelectric energy harvesting for electronics: market units 2020-2030
2.13.Piezoelectric energy harvesting for electronics: unit price 2020-2030
2.14.Triboelectric transducer and self-powered sensors 2020-2040 $ million
2.15.Triboelectric transducer and self-powered sensors etc. 2020-2030 $ million
2.16.Electrodynamic energy harvesting for electronics: number, price, market value 2020-2040
2.17.Electrodynamic energy harvesting for electronics: market value 2020-2030
2.18.Electrodynamic energy harvesting for electronics: units 2020-2030
2.19.Electrodynamic energy harvesting for electronics: unit price 2020-2030
2.20.Global supercapacitor value market by territory 2021-2041
2.21.Continuous glucose monitoring CGM in context $ million to 2029
2.22.6G smartphones and total cellphones 2021-2041
3.INTRODUCTION
3.1.Overview
3.2.Power needed by electronics and small electrical devices
3.3.Battery problems and alternatives
3.4.Drivers and facilitators of battery elimination How it becomes more necessary and easier
3.5.Rapid improvement in alternatives and more of them
3.6.How to improve, shrink and eliminate batteries
3.7.Principles of batteryless operation
3.8.Battery Eliminator Circuits BEC
3.9.Energy harvesting for devices Some options compared
3.10.Example of harvesting ambient RF
3.11.Example of thermoelectric harvesting: KCF Technologies
4.HEALTHCARE AND WEARABLES
4.1.Overview
4.2.Harvesting acoustic movement: infrasound not vibration
4.3.More efficient electrodynamic harvesting with mechanical storage
4.4.Kinetic energy harvesters without the need of a battery
4.5.Piezoelectric and triboelectric
4.6.Batteryless implanted pacemaker examples
4.7.RF powered
4.8.Battery-free patch monitoring by optical power transfer
4.9.Smart bandage battery-free
4.10.Two batteryless triboelectric facemasks activated by breathing
4.11.Thermoelectric battery-free wearables
4.12.Wind-up foetal heart monitor
4.13.Portal Instruments batteryless needle-free jet injection platform
5.5. IOT, SRWN, LPWAN BATTERY ELIMINATION
5.1.Overview
5.2.The IoT problem
5.3.Area wireless networks
5.4.Trameto multimode battery-free IoT
5.5.Smaller, lighter photovoltaic IoT node
5.6.Matrix thermoelectric power for IoT
5.7.21 LPWAN silicon manufacturers - partners for IoT
5.8.EH developers should talk to these 17 WPAN module and chipset makers
5.9.Smart metering
5.10.RFID sensors
5.11.IoT redefined to save embarrassment
5.12.Paradise delayed
5.13.Cognitive buildings
6.6G COMMUNICATIONS WIET ELIMINATING BATTERIES
6.1.Overview
6.2.Parasitic power from human RF emissions
6.3.Cards, wireless sensors and RFID parasitically powered from 5G
6.4.6G communications reducing and eliminating batteries Overview
6.5.6G wireless information and energy transfer WIET
6.6.The case against 6G
6.7.6G roadmap 2021-2041
7.SIX ROUTES TO BATTERYLESS CELLPHONES AND WEARABLES
7.1.Ressence Model 2 and Swatch
7.2.Batteryless energy independent smartphones 2036 Overview of six routes
7.3.Battery-free cellphone using ambient light or RF
7.4.Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming
8.BATTERY ELIMINATION BY WET TO RFID, NFC, RTLS
8.1.The option of directed RF powering
8.2.Radio Frequency Identification RFID
8.3.RFID system choices
8.4.RFID formats, uses, RAIN
8.5.Deployed RFID tags 99.6% being without batteries
8.6.Battery elimination in BAP tags
8.7.Battery elimination in active RFID tags
8.8.RFID sensors
8.9.Bluetooth and LPWAN replacing active RFID
8.10.Real Time Locating Systems RTLS battery elimination
9.ELIMINATING BATTERIES FROM BUILDING CONTROLS
9.1.Building & home automation: EnOcean
9.2.Building controls without energy storage: EnOcean Alliance
9.3.Easy to install
9.4.System
9.5.Protocol choice
9.6.Distance
9.7.Frequency
9.8.Protocol options
9.9.Bluetooth and Bluetooth Smart
9.10.Bluetooth Mesh: Silvair partnership
9.11.Bluetooth Infrastructure
9.12.Controlling Bluetooth Systems
9.13.Beacons and Sensor Nodes
9.14.Locating Sensor Beacons
9.15.Beacons: iBeacon Frame Format
9.16.Beacons: Eddystone Frame Format
9.17.Switches
9.18.Sensors
9.19.EnOcean Energy Harvesting
9.20.Dolphin IoT
9.21.The EnOcean Alliance
10.THE ENERGY HARVESTING TOOLBOX
10.1.Examples of photovoltaics in electronic devices
10.2.PV mechanisms: status, benefits, challenges, market potential compared
10.3.Wafer vs thin film photovoltaics 2020-2040
10.4.Amorphous silicon dead end
10.5.Thin film more efficient than rigid silicon 2030-2040?
10.6.Important PV options beyond silicon compared
10.7.Production readiness of Si alternatives for mainstream electronics
10.8.Triboelectric harvesting technology for electronics Terminology is a nightmare
10.9.Overview
10.10.Four ways to make a TENG
10.11.TENG modes with advantages, potential uses
10.12.Targeted applications
10.13.Hype curve for triboelectric devices
10.14.Some targeted medical applications
10.15.Battery free electronics: toys, biosensors, wearables
10.16.Transparent, stretchable: an example
10.17.Wind, river or tidal generation for electronic devices
10.18.Triboelectric dielectric series
10.19.Triboelectric dielectric series examples showing wide choice of properties
10.20.Thermoelectric generator design considerations
10.21.Thin film thermoelectric generators
10.22.SOFT report on TE for electronics
10.23.Examples of commercial and imminent applications
10.24.Gentherm Global Power Technologies
10.25.Marlow Industries
10.26.Best in class: Matrix Industries
10.27.Matrix solar + thermoelectric watch
10.28.Building & home automation: EnOcean
10.29.KCF Technologies
10.30.Automotive and IoT
10.31.PowerPot™ Biolite ™ and Spark ™ charging personal electronics
10.32.Other industrial, military
10.33.Collaborations, mergers and exits
10.34.Impactful new research
10.35.First stretchable thermoelectrics
10.36.Pyroelectric underwhelms
10.37.Report 2021 - Energy harvesting made possible with skin temperature
10.38.Improved thermoelectric wearables
10.39.Electrodynamic - basics
10.40.EnOcean GmbH and EnOcean Alliance
10.41.Seiko Kinetic electrodynamically harvesting watch
10.42.Kinetron
10.43.Kinetron micro turbines
10.44.Harnessing linear movement
10.45.Human movement harvesting
10.46.Crank charged consumer electronics
10.47.Travellers use wind, water
10.48.6D movement harvesting WITT energy
10.49.Piezoelectric - basics
10.50.Piezo harvester application by mode
10.51.Manufacture: Typical processes
10.52.Collagen piezoelectric for disposables, implants, wearables
10.53.MEMS
10.54.Examples of MEMS harvesting
10.55.Piezoelectric switches Piezo harvesters for the human body
10.56.Conformal piezoelectric harvesting for implants
10.57.Inner ear
10.58.Wrist health monitor
10.59.Patient behaviour monitoring
10.60.Automotive and aerospace
10.61.Algra
10.62.Electromagnetic radiation made for other purposes
10.63.Power cable magnetic field
10.64.Cellular transmissions
10.65.Terahertz radiation
11.SUPERCAPACITORS REPLACING BATTERIES
11.1.How they replace batteries
11.2.A closer look
11.3.Emerging W/kg & Wh/kg creates new markets
11.4.Regional differences and typical applications
12.SUPERCAPACITOR MANUFACTURERS
12.1.Explanation of our 10 assessment columns
12.2.CRRC supercapacitors
12.3.Ioxus
12.4.Ioxus lead-free replacement for truck batteries
12.5.Nippon Chemicon supercapacitor for Mazda car
12.6.Supreme Power Solutions (SPS) China
 

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