Background
13 Jul 2021
EnOcean GmbH
EnOcean GmbH wireless systems use electrodynamic and photovoltaic harvesting for power without batteries, occasionally adding thermoelectric when needed.
Included are:
7 May 2020
Self-Charging Everything: Battle for the High Ground
When some full-function, always-on smartwatches are able to self-charge, the others will look like the horse-drawn cart. When Internet of Things nodes are self-charging at the right size and price, the market for them will increase one thousand times.
5 Mar 2020
Internet of Things: Lessons from EAS and RFID
Anti-theft tags (Electronic Article Surveillance) and Radio Frequency Identification RFID have much in common with the newer concept.
27 Feb 2020
Very Slow is Better: Mesh Networks, IOT to Drones
In engineering and science, the race for faster is well known. It spans from 5G streaming videos in seconds to Hyperloop and space tourism. However, if we are to have the envisaged tens of billions of Internet of Things nodes deployed, they must cost under two cents each and work on a whisper of electricity. No. We must go even further in redefining the problem.
17 Feb 2020
High power thermoelectric energy harvesting starts to look good
In energy harvesting in general, there is 100 times the market potential in high power rather than low power. In this article IDTechEx explores this opportunity.
13 Jul 2018
Electronic paper display powered by energy harvesting
An electronic paper display powered by energy harvesting technology can be used to provide a display on batteryless Internet of Things devices.
Event summary
29 Jan 2018
Emerging Technology at CES 2018
IDTechEx has attended CES 2018. This article will show the highlights in various emerging technologies.
Background
25 Jan 2018
EnOcean
EnOcean is focusing on energy harvesting solutions for a long time.
11 Jan 2018
Eliminating Batteries in Desalination Plants, Cellphones and IOT
IDTechEx Chairman, Dr Peter Harrop, explores the importance of eliminating batteries, with other energy harvesting techniques being increasingly more viable.
30 Nov 2017
Low power electronics and electrics without batteries
The new IDTechEx Research report, Battery Elimination in Electronics and Electrical Engineering 2018-2028 notes that billions of wireless electronic and electrical products consuming microwatts to milliwatts or more operate without batteries or even capacitors to store energy.
22 Sep 2017
Mobile electrics at watts to kilowatts without batteries
Battery elimination, indeed elimination of all energy storage, is moving to even higher power, from electronics to electrical engineering.
19 Sep 2017
Murata View of Supercapacitors
This article covers IDTechEx's annual visit to Murata in Kyoto.
11 Sep 2017
Mobile electrics at watts to kilowatts without batteries
Battery elimination, indeed elimination of all energy storage, is moving to even higher power, from electronics to electrical engineering
4 Sep 2017
Thermoelectrics: Doors Close; Doors Open
This article covers the challenges companies involved in thermoelectric energy harvesting have faced and possible areas of development in the future.
22 Aug 2017
Thermoelectric Harvesting in 2017: Still Awaiting a Breakthrough
This article works through the issues facing the development of thermoelectric harvesting, including high power, modular thermoelectric technology and turnkey thermoelectric generators.
3 Aug 2017
Towards perpetual equipment by avoiding batteries
Eliminating batteries is key says IDTechEx Research in the new report Battery Elimination in Electronics and Electrical Engineering 2018-2028. They have serious limitations of cost, weight, space, toxicity, flammability, explosions, energy density, power density, leakage current, reliability, maintenance and/ or life.
26 Jun 2017
From automated to cognitive: A brief history of building automation
Cognitive buildings is not just the latest buzzword, it feels like a most natural evolution of what we think of today as a move towards smarter buildings.
3 Apr 2017
A world without batteries
Can we do the unthinkable and abandon batteries?