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Energy Harvesting & Storage and Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS awards
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17 May 2012

Energy Harvesting & Storage and Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS awards

On Tuesday the 15th of May in Berlin, Germany, IDTechEx recognised innovation once more with the Energy Harvesting & Storage and Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS awards, in a ceremony that took...
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Scientists generate electricity from viruses
16 May 2012  |  United States
Imagine charging your phone as you walk, thanks to a paper-thin generator embedded in the sole of your shoe. This futuristic scenario is now a little closer to reality. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Labora...
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Waste energy scavenging in vehicles
15 May 2012  |  United States
At the recent Electric Vehicles Symposium, Wattshock exhibited their regenerative suspension retrofit shock. This component generates electricity from previously wasted kinetic energy in vehicles. Wattshock works by exploiting the vehicle's weight ...
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SolarPrint to enable next generation self powered wireless sensors
Press Release  |  14 May 2012  |  Ireland
SolarPrint Limited a leading developer of high performance indoor energy harvesting technology today announced that it is to showcase the world's first self powered wireless CO2, Temperature and Humidity sensor using SolarPrint's Dye Sensitised Solar...
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Black solar cells have lowest reflectance for silicon solar cells
14 May 2012  |  United States
Scientists at Natcore Technology Inc using simple liquid bath processes, have created a black surface on a silicon wafer with an average reflectance in the visible and near-infrared region of the solar spectrum of 0.3%, making it the "blackest<&>q...
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Creating energy and light from air
11 May 2012  |  United Kingdom
Researchers from the University of Leeds are studying how to make electricity from electrodes coated in bacteria, and other living cells, using light or hydrogen as the fuel. The aim of the research long-term is to develop more efficient biofuel ce...
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Wireless sensor networks, energy harvesting and standardization
10 May 2012  |  Europe/WorldWide
In April this year, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) ratified a new standard - ISO/IEC 14543-3-10 - for wireless applications with ultra-low power consumption. The standard is optimized for energy harvesting solutions and, therefor...
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Playground produces energy
9 May 2012  |  Singapore/WorldWide
A group project by industrial designers Andrew Simoeni, Joel Lim and Funfere Koroye, Kidetic is a new take on a classic children's playground. According to the designers, the Kidetic playground will address the relationship between energy, interactio...
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Micropelt raises 6'5 Mio EURO for market launch and expansion
8 May 2012  |  WorldWide
Micropelt has raised 6'5 Mio EURO for the roll-out and global expansion of its thin-film thermoelectric energy harvesting technology. The fresh liquidity include a 5 Mio EURO investment by Ludgate Environmental Fund (LEF), a 1 Mio EURO by the Fund of...
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Energy harvesting, battery protection from shunt charger IC systems
7 May 2012  |  WorldWide
Background Just having started an initial adoption phase in the market place, energy harvesting ICs can convert an appropriate transducer's output into an electric current for a battery charger device. Recent technology developments have pushed ener...
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