Bluetooth Low Energy Enables Personal Sensor Networks Powered Using Energy Harvesting (Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe 2012)

 

Tim Bradow has over 25 years experience in the semiconductor industry, with responsibilities in applications engineering and world-wide marketing. Prior to joining IPS, Mr. Bradow was a Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Xilinx, Inc. Tim joined Xilinx in November 2000 when Xilinx acquired RocketChips Inc., a fabless-semiconductor startup based in Minneapolis, MN developing high speed serial I/O technology. Tim Bradow has a BSEE from North Dakota State University.

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.