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Wireless sensor networks - the next ten years

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) - self organising, self healing networks of small "nodes" - have huge potential across industrial, military and other many other sectors. While appreciable sales have now been established, major progress depends on standards and achieving twenty year life.

Highlights from the 2010 Flexible Electronics and Displays Conference

Chris Giacoponello introduced NTERA's concept of "printegration", the possibility to integrate a display, a sensor and a battery by using successive printing steps. NTERA's technology is based on viologen inks that change colour upon accepting electrical charge. Without a need for a transparent conductor, they can be directly deposited on any opaque substrate (e.g. paper, PCB) with better reflectivity and lower cost (avoiding costly ITO).Company demonstrators include RF-powered displays (co-operation with poly-IC), solar powered ones (co-operation with Plextronics) and a device comprising a printed display & battery stack, demonstrated in June 2009.

Imec, Holst Centre present ADC suited for low energy radios

At yesterday's International Solid State Circuit Conference, Imec and Holst Centre reported an ultra-low power 8 bit analog to digital convertor (ADC) consuming only 30fJ energy per conversion step.

Record performance of dual-gate organic TFT-based RFID circuit

At yesterday's International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), Holst Centre, Imec and TNO presented a dual-gate-based organic RFID chip with record data rate and lowest reported operating voltage.

Imec and Holst Centre at International Solid State Circuit Conference

At this week's International Solid State Circuit Conference, Imec and Holst Centre present their newest breakthroughs in ultra-low power design for wireless communications and wireless sensor networks, 3D design and inorganic electronics with an impressive number of contributions including 10 reviewed publications and 6 contributions to tutorials and workshops.

Imec and Holst Centre achieve breakthrough in battery-less radios

At yesterday's International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre reported a 2.4GHz/915MHz wake-up receiver which consumes only 51µW power.

GE, Philips, SNCF present at World's Largest Energy Harvesting Event

The event Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe and Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS 2010 features speakers including SNCF and the huge General Electric and consumer electronics company Philips.

Holst Centre, imec and TNO report a world-first plastic transponder

Today, at the International Electronics Devices Meeting, Holst Centre, imec and TNO presented the world-first organic transponder circuit with a bit rate of 50kbits/s. This bit rate approaches the requirements for the Electronic Product Coding (EPC) standards.

Micromachined piezoelectric harvester with record power output

For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85μW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for robustness.

EnOcean's Emergence as Wireless Leader

11 EnOcean Alliance members showcased more than 100 building automation products at GreenBuild - 5x more than any other wireless standard.

Liquavista's revolutionary displays set to transform eReader market

Liquavista launched its first technology platform LiquavistaBright, aimed at the booming eReader space.

Epson and E Ink announce a new addition to the EPD controller family

Seiko Epson Corporation and E Ink Corporation announced a new jointly developed display controller IC, the S1D13522, which provides a high performance, space saving solution for E Ink's Vizplex-enabled electronic paper displays.

Prime View Int and E Ink Corp revise merger agreement

Prime View International and E Ink Corporation revise merger agreement

E-paper display market reaches $1.17 billion in 2014

IDTechEx find that the total market size for e-paper displays in 2010 is $131 million rising to $1.17 Billion in 2014 - this is the value of the display component, not the product.

Areas of highest interest in the field of the new electronics

Flexible Displays and Lighting - Areas of highest interest in the field of the new electronics

Energy harvesting industry in conflict

The ZigBee Alliance announced in July 2009 that it will draft a standard for energy harvesting devices.

Body area networking standard attracts industry attention

The recent IEEE 802.15.6 Working Group meeting in Montreal, Canada drew significant interest from major industry players including Philips, General Electric, Texas Instruments, Toumaz and Samsung.

Energy harvesting at Holst Research Centre part one

Holst Research Centre in the Netherlands, now owned by IMEC, has achieved an enviable record in energy harvesting development in only three years.

Joint research on roll-to-roll organic photovoltaics

ECN, the largest research centre in The Netherlands in the field of energy, and Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by TNO (The Netherlands) and IMEC (Belgium), signed an agreement to offer a joint research program on Roll-to-Roll organic photovoltaics (OPV) to the industry.

iRex Technologies developing a high quality, full color digital reader

The world's leading provider of e‐reading solutions, Netherlands‐based iRex Technologies, announced new progress on development of a next generation of color, writable, ultra‐thin digital readers expected to launch mid 2011.