Innovative Multisource Energy Harvesting System Solutions for Autonomous Micro Power Applications (Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2009)

Dr. Pradeep Shah is the Founder and CEO of Texas MicroPower Inc., a North Texas Energy Harvesting Startup in collaboration with regional universities and industries, and is funded by the Texas Emerging Technology Fund and an NSF STTR grant. He has over three decades of broad technology innovation, R&D to market, product and business management experience and served as an advisor for startups. He also founded a technology commercialization startup-mentoring group and serves as a Mentor in STARTECH Early Ventures and as a project reviewer for NTXRCIC and NSF. Earlier, he was a Texas Instruments Fellow, with over twenty-five years of technology innovation and management positions in both operating business groups and R&D environments with expertise in semiconductor based opportunity development and commercialization of first set of CMOS technologies and their profitable product implementation in linear, analog, non volatile Eprom/FlashEEProm and wireless product families.

Dallas, Texas, based venture Founded in 2006 based on licensed compelling technology, sponsored development in partnership with world class materials device development, energy harvesting systems teams from University of Texas at Dallas and Virginia Tech and regional industry collaborations, has recently been funded by Texas emerging Technology Fund and NSF STTR grant TMP mission is to develop complete energy harvesting solution to include material, device, circuit technologies for commercial products and solutions that will scavenge energy from naturally-available sources such as human energy or natural energy such as the wind, vibrations or sun into micro-power. This micro-power will be transferred ideally into battery-free, isolated and remote electronic devices such as wireless environmental sensors, medical implants or further complement traditional storage for portable electronics.