Perpetuum

Perpetuum Releases Intelligent Power Module

The IPM allows users to connect Perpetuum's Vibration Energy Harvester (also known as Vibration Energy Scavenger) and hence deliver significant savings by avoiding the need to replace batteries even at fast update rates down to a few seconds.

Energy harvesting - wireless sensors integration: A systemic approach

The toolkit of technologies that energy harvesting and wireless sensors are making available, are enabling system integrators to come up with solutions in a variety of vertical markets.

Energy Harvesting Network annual one-day event

The Energy Harvesting Network will hold its annual one-day dissemination event on 28th March 2012 at Hamilton House, London.

Energy harvesting markets

Next week the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting & Storage USA event will open in Boston to more than 350 attendees from 16 countries. Below are some of the highlights you should expect from the show.

Perpetuum unveil key customers

Perpetuum, a maker of electromagnetic energy harvesters, showed at Sensors Expo this week five customers that have integrated their energy harvester solutions with their products.

National Instruments adopts vibration energy harvesting solutions

Perpetuum has announced that the National Instruments NI WSN-3226 Wireless Measurement Node can be powered by Perpetuum's vibration energy harvester technology.

Short term challenges in the energy harvesting market

IDTechEx began exploring energy harvesting for small devices four years ago when it was obvious that conventional batteries were a dead end for many wireless sensor applications.

Energy harvesting network

The Energy Harvesting Network held its first one-day dissemination event on 7th February 2011 at the IET, Savoy Place, London. The Network is EPSRC-funded, and is for academia, industry and end-users of energy harvesting technology.

Energy Harvesting 2011

Interested in advances in energy harvesting research and development? Want to understand whether or not energy harvesting can address your particular applications? If so then the following event could be a great opportunity to find out more.

Energy harvesting and wireless sensors ready for prime time

Energy harvesting is the conversion of ambient energy into electricity to drive small or mobile electronic and electrical devices. Wireless sensors are particularly in need of energy harvesting because they are increasingly deployed in numbers and locations where hard wiring or battery changing are impracticable. We are at an exciting stage with both because harvesting is becoming better and electronics is demanding less power -so they meet in the middle.

The race for plug and play vibration harvesting

The market for vibration harvesters will increase perhaps one hundred fold when they are broad band so they can be fitted without tuning - or with auto tuning - to the vibration encountered. Ideally they should be made to standard battery sizes and sold as a non polluting, long life battery replacement.

SPAWAR vibration harvesting for WSN

At the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage conference in Denver Colorado in November, Dr Richard Waters, Advanced Circuits and Sensors Branch SPAWAR System Center Pacific, presented on optimization of a kinetic energy harvester for low amplitude vibration.

Using a supercapacitor to manage your power

This article will explain some of the key properties of supercapacitors that design engineers creating energy harvesting circuits need to be aware of, and explore how to use supercapacitors in these circuits.

Energy Harvesting & Storage Conference Covers End User Requirements

IDTechEx is hosting the world's largest event on Energy Harvesting & Storage on November 3-4 in Denver, CO, USA. Uniquely, the focus of the event is to address requirements from end users from a range of different vertical industries.

Energy Harvesting and Storage Conference - Day Two

The second day of the IDTechEx conference on Energy Harvesting and Storage in Cambridge UK was dedicated to the technology roadmap.