Microchip and Cymbet have combined forces to offer what is being called the world’s first customizable energy harvesting development kit. The XLP Kit uses Microchip’s PIC24F16KA102 microcontroller with eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology and Cymbet’s EnerChip EH Eval-08 Energy Harvesting Board. The EH board converts solar to electrical energy and stores it in an EnerChip […]
Wireless sensor
Sensors Expo 2010 Exhibitors: ProximaRF Technology Corp.
If you missed Sensors Expo or did not get a chance to check out all the exhibits, here is another of the interesting booths that I visited. Terry Rachwalski from ProximaRF Technology Corp. demonstrates a high frequency RFID tag and reader including the use of energy harvesting from the RFID reader. To see the video, click the […]
Wireless Implantable Medical Devices
The increasing availability of compact, low power wireless medical technologies will enable a new generation of human implantable medical monitoring and patient care devices using the Medical Implant Communication Service (MICS) radio frequency band, according to Cambridge Consultants. Designers of personal, self-contained medical devices for blood pressure and metabolite monitoring and control, new drug delivery […]
