Friday, June 22, 2007

Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Nodes

Microstrain has a line of Energy Harvesting wireless sensor nodes that can operate indefinitely without the use of batteries. They are designed to run at low levels of DC power that is generated using piezoelectric materials and solar panels.

Products such as this will make the prediction of truly umbiquitous computing a reality in years to come. Not having to change the batteries is a huge step in this direction.

Microstrain has a nice white paper on the subject here.

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