Energy Harvesting
Engineers of Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation (AKM) discuss technical expertise relating to the environmental power generation and boost DC/DC converters, towards the studies using energy harvesting.
A battery-free beacon tag for monitoring wandering that utilizes AKM's energy harvesting IC, eliminating the need for battery replacement.
*Beacon Tag Using Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Technology.
*Bluetooth® is a registered trademark of Bluetooth SIG, Inc.
This white paper focuses on challenges related to excretion management in caregiving settings and introduces the features and advantages of ”Sensor-equipped Caregiving Diapers" as a potential solution.
While guidelines for the elimination of primary batteries are being presented in Europe, we introduce ways to solve charging problems and achieve sustainable power supply by combining our energy harvesting technology with secondary batteries.
AKM sells energy harvesting IC to allow efficient collection of small amounts of microwatts to milliwatts.
This IC features a micro-watt-powered booster circuit and a low 26nA voltage-monitoring circuit, making it suitable for applications using energy harvesting.
See AKM's energy harvesting IC usage.
Please check this attractive energy harvesting IC lineup of AKM.