They’re green. They’re yellow and many other very obvious colors. And, if they are in your town, they seem to be everywhere. Bike-sharing has become a high-volume business for companies with unusual names, like Ofo, Didi Chuxing, Mobike, LimeBike, and more. According to Ofo’s website, the process simply consists of: “Find it. Scan it. Ride […]
What new materials will create new sensors?
Materials with unusual properties are a starting point for creating new sensors. A company involved in products with complex material properties and electronics possibly has an edge over its rivals when it comes to discovering or creating new sensing technologies. For example, Continental, a tire maker and automotive electronics supplier recently used electrically conductive rubber […]
What new sensor applications are hiding in plain sight?
With all the new sensors available today that either (1) did not exist, (2) had less capabilities and/or (3) were more expensive just a few years ago, innovative engineers should be exploring new ways to use them. One way to do this is sensor specific: with sensor X available at an affordable price, what can […]
How can you make batteries last forever in a wireless sensing system?
At Sensors Expo 2017, Geoffroy Gosset, CEO and founder of e-peas, explains how a variety of energy harvesting techniques and low power solutions that his company supplies can answer this question. Using the company’s power management ICs (PMICs), systems can be designed that run ARM processors continuously at low frequencies and draw less power than […]
How do you accelerate an energy harvesting design?
One of the more common techniques for accelerating designs and avoiding unexpected design problems involves software tools. For energy harvesting (EH) applications, Mentor Graphics on-line modeling and simulation platform called SystemVision, a cloud-based design system, provides component/system suppliers and users the basis for a new EH design tool. Since many designers are intrigued by the […]
How can energy harvesting be used in industrial applications?
Energy harvesting (EH) or converting renewable or existing sources of energy to electrical power can occur with several sources including light, heat, and motion providing the input. Photoelectric, thermoelectric, piezoelectric and electrodynamic techniques are well-known and often used to power sensing nodes that transmit data to a central controller. Depending on how much light is […]
MEMS Microphone Employs Energy Harvesting
At the MEMS & Sensors Group Executive Conference in Scottsdale, AZ, Matt Crowley, the CEO of Vesper Technologies, demonstrates his company’s wake on sound MEMS microphone. The VM1010 prototype uses the piezoelectric MEMS microphone as a piezoelectric energy harvester for saving power with an always on voice mode. For more information, click here.
RF Energy Harvesting for Sensing Apps
At Sensors Expo 2016, Charlie Greene, Chief Operating & Technical Officer at Powercast explains RFID tags, RFID sensor tags, RF powered accelerometer tags and more. For more information, click here.
Supercapacitors Supplement Energy Harvesters’ Output
At Sensors Expo 2016, Pierre Mars from the Application Engineering Team at Cap-XX supercapacitors explains the company’s demo that showcases the use of supercapacitors to provide high peak power with a low power energy harvesting source. For more information, click here.
Microgenerator Uses Motion to Provide Energy
At Sensors Expo 2016, Nigel Atherton, founder of Joulefusion (JF), demonstrates a non-contact energy harvesting technique that uses rotating or linear motion for its microgenerator (MG). For more information about the JF-MG, click here.
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