Wireless power and energy harvesting: friends and enemies

Wireless power prevents your phone or wearable dying in only a few hours: energy harvesting was not good enough. At lower and higher powers, energy harvesting usually wins, powering sensors at the low end and remote communities with high power. Energy harvesting provides land, water and airborne electric vehicles with "perpetual" speeds of 3- 70 km/hour. That is mainly photovoltaics with battery backup for night time but some harness wave power and tides or wind power all from on-board devices can charge the batteries when stationary. Nonetheless, for the demanding road vehicle we shall add dynamic wireless charging. Friends indeed: energy harvesting and wireless charging boosting each other.

 

Only one event covers all that, from wireless charging of phones to vehicles to all forms of energy harvesting including up to megawatts off-grid. IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara November 18-19 even embraces the other key enabling technologies. The 23 masterclasses on the day before and the day after have global experts teaching it all. These masterclasses include visits to local centers of excellence.

 

In the conferences, Toyota presents and Nicola Labs explains an innovative wireless power solution. Four other speakers cover wireless power for vehicles, others explain wearables. Key enabling technologies energy harvesting, printed electronics, graphene and 3D printing are the subject of separate conferences. In its two days, Electric Vehicles Everything is Changing includes the Faradair solar-assisted plane and technology of structural solar as part of the load-bearing structure. Understand next generation power storage - Li-S batteries, Li-ion capacitors etc - as key to success. For even more detail, IDTechEx has over 80 reports with technology and market forecasts and a subscription service: its PhD level analysts become an extension of your business.

 

"We feel that people need one stop shopping for all of this," says Raghu Das, Chief Executive analysts IDTechEx who own the event. "With over 200 exhibitors, over 3000 delegates and good orders for our 23 masterclasses, we look forward to a vibrant show. There will be many people who need to meet but do not otherwise know of each other: we specialise in putting you together and benchmarking from the big picture".