Winter Green Research announces that it has a new study on Energy Harvesting Market
Shares and Forecasts, Worldwide, Nanotechnology 2012-2018. Products power sensors that are
the base for smarter computing. The 2011 study has 625 pages, 209 tables and figures.
Energy harvesting devices are evolving in the context of the development of solid state
technology that provides vast improvements. Improvements in energy density are one of the
benefits of energy harvesting give to traditional rechargeable and solid state batteries.
Advanced technologies associated are emerging that make energy harvesting feasible.
Advanced storage devices are emerging simultaneously. Storage devices can leverage the
power captured by energy harvesting devices. Energy storage technologies of
super-capacitors and thin-film batteries have become cost-effective. Energy harvesting
devices have attained workable levels of efficiency. There are significant cost
reductions. Many applications are related to smarter computing that depends on sensors
capturing change in conditions and making adjustments to the environment based on measured
change.
Existing energy harvesting and storage applications include vibration-based wireless
train measuring systems, wireless sensors distributed city wide to implement smart cities,
oil field monitoring systems, windup laptops for use in remote regions, and wireless light
switches for use in smart buildings. Wireless sensors are self-powering. They can be used
to alert and monitor a range of environments and incidents, pollution and forest fires,
robberies in a city, temperature in a building, and movement around a border fence.
Energy harvesting technologies include electrodynamics, photovoltaics, piezoelectrics,
and thermovoltaics. Photovoltaic systems for solar energy is mostly outside the scope of
this study. The energy harvesting and energy storage market factors light harvesting for
small devices
Technological developments in the fields of low-power electronics and energy storage
systems have allowed energy harvesting to become an increasingly viable technology. It is
alternatively referred to as energy scavenging and power harvesting. Energy harvesting
technology has become sophisticated and efficient.
Energy harvesting depends on the capture of ambient energy, its conversion to usable
form, and storage. Common examples of energy harvesting include wristwatches powered by
body movement and bicycle dynamo powered by the motion of the wheel.
According to Susan Eustis, the senior analyst for the study, "The wireless sensor node
is the most important product type forecast for growth as an energy-harvesting solution.
Wireless sensors are ubiquitous and very attractive products to implement smarter planet
initiatives using harvested energy."
Wireless sensors nodes are commonly placed in hard-to-reach locations. Changing
batteries can be costly and inconvenient. Wireless sensors using harvested energy provide
off-the-shelf availability of ultra-low-power, single-chip wireless microcontrollers
(MCUs) capable of running control algorithms and transmitting data using sophisticated
power management techniques.
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