26 Mar 2010

Harvesting topics at sensor event
At Sensors Expo and Conference June 7-9 in Rosemont Illinois USA, the following topics will be covered in the energy harvesting stream.
5 Nov 2009

Energy Harvesting and WSN & RTLS Award Winners Announced
This week the IDTechEx events Energy Harvesting & Storage and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) & RTLS took place in Denver, CO, USA. The event was attended by more than 290 attendees, with a brilliantly diverse spread of those through the value chain - from component suppliers to solution providers to many end users from different industries.
External press release
5 Nov 2009

AdaptivEnergy and GainSpan Announce Technology Development Partnership
Energy harvesting innovator AdaptivEnergy and GainSpan® Corporation, a leader in low power Wi-Fi semiconductor solutions, have entered into a technology development partnership to further speed the development of energy harvesting to power Wi-Fi wireless sensor networks.
14 Sep 2009

Mechanical energy harvester
AdaptivEnergy has developed Joule-Thief™, an energy harvesting technology for use in environments containing both resonant, non-resonant, and impact-type ambient mechanical energy.
24 Jul 2009

Multiple energy harvesting
Jennic Ltd of Sheffield, UK, a manufacturer of innovative 32-bit wireless microcontrollers and modules, has announced a demonstration platform that successfully harvests thermal, solar, radio frequency (RF) and vibrational energy, to power wireless sensor networks based on the IEEE802.15.4 standard such as ZigBee PRO and 6LoWPAN.