Squeezing every drop of juice from your energy source
summary
Claim: battery-free multi-sensor devices run for weeks by combining advanced PMICs, multi-source harvesters and storage such as lithium-ion capacitor. Tools: Qoitech-style power analysis and Silicon Labs devkits that wake up in 16 microjoules and sync firmware traces to power logs. Numbers and limits: solar panels need modeling for orientation/location and must survive 10 years outdoors; containers can see days of sun then weeks of darkness. Built and proven: commercial solar-harvested trackers and EnOcean-style kinetic switches move from demos to deployed portfolios.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Energy harvesting IoT intro
- 1:29Wireless energy harvesting challenges
- 6:32New energy harvesting apps
- 7:58Solar power integration
- 11:31Ultra-low power MCU evolution
- 15:26Low-power firmware tools
- 17:35Power budgets with KOCH
- 21:09Closing remarks & Q&A
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