Empowering Smart-Home Devices with Low-Light Energy Harvesting

The proliferation of connected devices promises to revolutionize consumer, commercial, and industrial applications. However, they require continuous power, which until now has meant batteries that must be replaced or recharged. Legacy solar technologies like amorphous silicon cells, long used on solar calculators and children’s toys, don’t yield sufficient power in the real-world, low-light operational conditions for many applications. 

Ambient Photonics addresses both the low-power-density and high-cost problems of legacy technologies with powerful low-light energy-harvesting solar cells. In this podcast, we talk to Joshua Wright, VP of Engineering at Ambient Photonics, about the smart home and how the company’s technology can deliver the needed power.