Connectivity & Automation Solutions - May 22nd, 2024
 
 
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May 22, 2024
This article shows how to evaluate energy-harvesting technologies for IoT applications to minimize or eliminate the use of batteries.
By skillful application of basic design principles, this project creates a template for efficient energy harvesting.
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Small-scale connected devices have long relied on disposable coin-cell batteries as their power source. Now that we’ve got billions of these products, the problems wrought by batteries are starting to stand out.
Researchers combined the drinking bird toy with a triboelectric arrangement to create a high-voltage energy-harvesting scheme.
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