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Is the energy in energy harvesting really free?

April 11, 2019 By Randy Frank

Of course. However, the conversion process to get useful electricity certainly is not. Also, several design considerations must be taken into account to ensure a system’s success. This includes thinking differently about power consumption. With all of the wireless communications applications expanding in consumer, commercial and industrial applications, the power must be achieved without connecting […]

Filed Under: Energy Harvesting, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Wireless Tagged With: Sensors Expo 2019

How will 5G technology impact sensors?

March 27, 2019 By Randy Frank

Fourth generation (4G) wireless cellular networks can theoretically download at speeds up to 100 Mbps, but a fifth generation (5G) network can achieve from 1-10 Gbps. While some fifth generation (5G) wireless cellular systems began operation in limited areas of the US and other parts of the world in 2018, 2019 should mark the real […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Tagged With: Ericsson, GSMA, Samsung, Shed, Verizon

What is the status of autonomous vehicles in industrial applications? Part 2

January 22, 2019 By Randy Frank

Part 1 of this blog addressed the different levels of autonomous driving as defined by SAE for road vehicles and introduced the topic of autonomous farming. This blog will provide additional information about autonomous farming applications as well as lift trucks. All of these areas are well-controlled environments that do not need the extensive mapping […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Image sensing, Mobile, RADAR/LiDAR Tagged With: Case IH, ClearPath Robotics, OTTO Motors

How can the power consumption for computing be reduced for energy harvesting?

December 24, 2018 By Randy Frank

At Sensors Expo 2018, Chet Jewan, vice-president of sales and business development from Eta Compute, explains how his company’s computing technology can benefit heart rate monitoring and energy harvesting applications. The first demo, with an Eta Compute chip running at 0.476V powered by solar energy, displays Jewan’s heart rate. A second demo has sensors being […]

Filed Under: Energy Harvesting, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Sensor Fusion, Wireless Tagged With: Eta Compute

How can you harvest RF energy?

December 15, 2018 By Randy Frank

At Sensors Expo, Eric Biel, an engineer from Powercast Corporation, explains how radio frequency or RF energy can be used in energy harvesting applications. RF wireless power transmitted by the PowerSpot transmitter is received by two receiver sticks with LEDs. The TX91503 PowerSpot transmitter broadcasts an RF signal in the unlicensed 915 MHz industrial, scientific […]

Filed Under: Energy Harvesting, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Wireless Tagged With: Powercast Corporation

How can asynchronous power produce longer battery life?

November 29, 2018 By Randy Frank

At Sensor Expo 2018, Paul Washkewicz, Vice-President of Marketing for Eta Compute explains how his company’s application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) uses asynchronous logic to lower the power to the microcontroller unit (MCU) to extend battery life. The ASIC is based on an ARM M3 and has a CoolFlux digital signal processor (DSP) from NXP in […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile, Sensor Fusion Tagged With: Eta Compute

What’s new in batteryless sensing?

September 17, 2018 By Randy Frank

To solve the problem of replacing batteries in ever-increasing wireless sensing applications in the Internet of Things (IoT), PsiKick has developed proprietary sensors called Smart Sense Nodes (or S2Ns) that employ ultra-low-power digital and RF circuit technologies. The S2Ns are powered by energy harvested from heat or indoor lighting that eliminates the need for a […]

Filed Under: Data transmission, Energy Harvesting, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Health, Smart Sensors, Wireless Tagged With: PsiKick

What’s new in solar energy harvesting for sensors?

August 20, 2018 By Randy Frank

At Sensors Expo 2018, Ben LeNail, Director of Business Development at Alta Devices, a maker of thin, flexible solar photovoltaic cells for energy harvesting, provided an update on the company’s technology, its applications and energy harvesting solutions for sensors. The company’s specialty photovoltaic cells are ultra-high efficiency devices. Alta Devices has held the world record […]

Filed Under: Energy Harvesting, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Wearable sensing technologies, Wireless Tagged With: Alta Devices

What’s new in IMUs?

July 24, 2018 By Randy Frank

At Sensors Expo 2018, Faheem Faheem, the Director of R&D for Visionix Engineering for Thales Visionix, discusses NavChip 2, a next-generation inertial measurement unit (IMU) with high sensitivity and high performance. Architected around proprietary technologies and advanced signal processing techniques, the IMU contains a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis gyroscope for 6-axis motion sensing. […]

Filed Under: Accelerometer, Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Gyroscope, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), MEMS Sensor Technology, Vision systems, Wireless Tagged With: Thales Visionix

What’s new in robotic sensing?

July 20, 2018 By Randy Frank

At 2018 Sensors Expo in San Jose, CA, Jacob Hicks, an Applications Development Manager from Omron Electronic Components, discusses including sensors in the Omron LD autonomous robot. The robot is linked to sensor technologies from Omron including cross-referenced Raspberry Pi based cameras to provide locations and status information, similar to what might be required in […]

Filed Under: Featured, Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Image sensing, Smart cameras, Wireless Tagged With: Omron Electronic Components

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