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Wireless Sensing for Data Centers

The ever-increasing volume of internet data requires handling many megawatts of power in data centers and dealing with increasing server densities. Maintaining an environment that ensures uninterrupted...

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Satisfy Your Energy Harvesting Curiosity at Sensors Expo 2013

If you are interested in finding out how today’s energy harvesting (EH) technologies may play an important role in future sensing designs, Sensors Expo 2013 offers something for the curious and the...

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Li-Ion Supercapacitors Charged at Sensors Expo 2013

At Sensors Expo, held June 4-6 at the Rosemont Convention Center in Chicago, Il., one of the first new people that I met was Jim Banas, a senior product marketing engineer at JSR Micro, a company that...

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Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting for Sensing

At Sensors Expo 2013, Bob Collins, vice-president of business development for Engineered Thermal Systems at Laird Technologies, explains the company’s semiconductor-based thermoelectric power generator...

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MEMS Vibration Energy Harvesting

At Sensors Expo 2013, Robert Andosca, CEO and president of MicroGen, a supplier of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based vibrational energy harvesters, demonstrates how a vibrating source...

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Standards-Based Wireless Sensing Networks

At Sensors Expo 2013, Joe Weadick, a field applications engineer at Linear Technology Corporation, explains the role of his company’s Dust Networks wireless sensor node technology in energy harvesting...

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Packaging Protects Ceramic Piezo Structures

At Sensor Expo 2013, Nicholas Gilligan, production manager at Midé Technology Corp. discusses the company’s Piezo Protection Advantage for packaging ceramic wafers for bi-morph piezoelectric...

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Vibration Analysis Tool for Harvesting Energy

At Sensor Expo 2013, Nicholas Gilligan, production manager at Midé Technology Corp. discusses the company’s Slam Stick vibration recording tool for characterizing the vibration present in an energy...

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Turning RFID Tags into Sensor Tags

The next generation of RFID tags from ams AG allows the reading of identification data, as well as temperature  from an onbaord sensor and other environmental conditions from external sensors. The...

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Energy Harvesting to reach $2.4 Billion in 2024

Energy harvesting technologies may generate only approximately $150 Million in 2014 but in ten years the sales will rise to $2.4 billion. The newly updated report, “Energy Harvesting and Storage for...

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IC Provides Power and Added Features for Energy Harvesters

Ambient light or thermal energy harvesting devices provide energy with a wide voltage range for wireless sensors and other low power applications. To make this energy useful, it must be regulated at...

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Use Energy Harvesting to Power Wireless Sensors

The use of numerous low-power wireless technologies offers interesting alternatives to running wires in network applications. However, the need to periodically change batteries and the associated cost...

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Thermal Energy Harvesting

At Sensors Expo 2014, Jim Bierschenk, ‎Sr. Manager and Chief Engineer, R&D at Marlow Industries demonstrates the company’s thermal energy harvesting technology. To watch the video, click here. For...

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Flexible Solar Cells Power Sensor Circuitry

At Sensors Expo 2014, Rich Kapusta, vice president of marketing for Alta Devices demonstrates the company’s flexible solar cell that generates power from outdoor and indoor light sources and achieves...

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MEMS-Based Technology Uses Vibration for Energy Harvesting

At Sensors Expo 2014, Kathleen Vaeth, vice president of engineering for MicroGen Systems discusses the company’s MEMS-based vibrational energy harvesting Micro Power Generators (MPGs). To watch the...

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Satisfy Your Energy Harvesting Curiosity at Sensors Expo 2013

If you are interested in finding out how today’s energy harvesting (EH) technologies may play an important role in future sensing designs, Sensors Expo 2013 offers something for the curious and the...

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Li-Ion Supercapacitors Charged at Sensors Expo 2013

At Sensors Expo, held June 4-6 at the Rosemont Convention Center in Chicago, Il., one of the first new people that I met was Jim Banas, a senior product marketing engineer at JSR Micro, a company that...

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Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting for Sensing

At Sensors Expo 2013, Bob Collins, vice-president of business development for Engineered Thermal Systems at Laird Technologies, explains the company’s semiconductor-based thermoelectric power generator...

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MEMS Vibration Energy Harvesting

At Sensors Expo 2013, Robert Andosca, CEO and president of MicroGen, a supplier of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based vibrational energy harvesters, demonstrates how a vibrating source...

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Should Energy Harvesting be Used in Your Next Sensor Design?

The energy harvesting (EH) symposium tutorials and energy harvesting sessions at Sensors Expo 2015 can help you answer this question and others. If you don’t think it is time and your competitors...

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