Wednesday, June 6

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM
Energy Harvesting Markets and Opportunities: 2012-2022
Harry Zervos PhD, Technology Analyst, IDTechEx 

This session gives an impartial view from a leading industry analyst on the current and future prospects for energy harvesting in wireless sensors. The challenges, opportunities, case studies of success and unmet needs will be covered, along with ten year forecasts.
● Hear impartial views on the current and expected status of energy harvesting, with detailed forecasts.
● Understand what the driving sectors are.
● Learn about the latest technology breakthroughs from around the world.

11:10 AM -11:50 AM
Lifelong Power for Standard Wireless Instruments through Thermal Energy Harvesting
Burkhard Habbe, VP Business Development, Micropelt GmbH

A growing base of wireless sensors increases the maintenance load. Replacing batteries with energy harvesters can eliminate maintenance for the sensor's life. Thermal energy harvesting taps into the most prevalent and reliable energy source in technical environments: waste heat. New developments allow connecting of harvesters even to installed instruments.
● Refresh the principle of thermoelectric power generation.
● Understand the structure of a thermoharvester.
● Learn about the concept and power budgets of thermoharvesting.
● See a field retrofit adapter concept connecting energy harvesters and installed base wireless instruments.

1:50 PM - 2:30 PM
Energy Harvesting Devices for Wireless Monitoring for Rotorcraft
Chris Townsend, Executive Vice President of Engineering, MicroStrain

By combining energy harvesting technologies with advances in wireless sensing, extending component lives through enhanced usage tracking is achievable, thereby reducing maintenance costs, enhancing mission readiness, and increasing safety. This session details challenges associated with available harvesters, and offers a solution to more effectively power WSNs from disparate vibration environments.
● The benefits and difficulties associated with wireless sensor nodes for condition based maintenance (CBM) and prognostics and health monitoring (PHM).
● The current challenges associated with harvesters, including the difficulty of effective energy harvesting in disparate vibration environments with a single application.
● An overview of the varying vibration spectrums in a rotorcraft application, and of the design process for finding a solution to harvest the energy source.
● The viability of the new design through proven bandwidth testing & tuning and environmental testing.
● How to effectively scavenge and convert energy to power typical wireless sensor applications in very different, but common, vibration environments. 

2:40 PM - 3:20 PM
RF-Powered, Passive Wireless Sensor Tags and High-Function RFID
Harry Ostaffe, VP, Marketing & Sales, Powercast

This session covers RF power harvesting for battery-less, passive wireless sensor tags and high-function RFID tags. RF power sources, performance, and example applications will be discussed.

● Learn benefits of RF energy as a source of power for battery-less sensors and high-function RFID tags.
● Understand the performance capabilities of RF power harvesting.
● Hear about existing research projects, commercial products, and potential applications.

3:30 PM- 4:10 PM
A Durable and Sustainable Strap Type Electromagnetic Harvester for TPMS
Soobum Lee, Research Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

A new concept design of an electromagnetic energy harvester is proposed for powering a tire pressure monitoring sensor (TPMS). The innovative design of thin coil strap attached on the circumferential surface of a rim and a permanent magnet placed on the brake caliper system generate electrical energy by electromagnetic induction.
● Learn an innovative wiring and insulating strategy for the implementation of the coil strap to maximize energy generation.
● The advantages of the proposed design which can enhance durability and sustainability because it does not require material deformation.
● See how the proposed harvester generates a unique waveform of open circuit voltage.

Thursday, June 7

11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Smart Energy Design Techniques for Zero Power Devices
Steve Grady, VP - Global Marketing, Cymbet

New Internet of Things devices are smarter, smaller, wireless, use integrated sensors and demand life of product powering. This session details new smart energy technologies and design techniques that harvest ambient energy to power these devices. Areas covered include:
• New energy harvesting techniques that use light, temperature, motion, vibration, flow or RF to power medical products.
• Introduction to smart solid state rechargeable batteries that can be embedded in zero power devices, are intrinsically safe, with disposal like other ICs.
• New power management IC, microcontroller, radio and sensor technologies.
• Design techniques and “secret tips” for creating successful EH-based products.
• Tear down of a millimeter scale EH wireless Intra Ocular Pressure sensor. 

1:40 PM – 2:20 PM
Harvester-Powered Wireless Accelerometers for Extreme Temperature Monitoring in Fossil Fuel Power Plants
Jacob Loverich, VP Research, KCF Technologies

Deployments of wireless sensors in power plants have been limited due to limited high temperature tolerance of electronics and energy harvesters. This session reviews research conducted with DOE to  develop a technology to harvest energy and enable continuous wireless vibration monitoring on high-temperature pieces of power plant equipment.
● The challenges of using wireless sensors in extreme temperature industrial environments.
● About technical strategies for creating harvester powered sensors that will operate at extreme temperatures.
● The value of sensor monitoring of extreme temperature industrial equipment. 

2:30 PM – 3:10 PM
Integration of Thin-Film Thermoelectrics in New Energy Harvesting Sensor Applications
Dave Koester, VP of  Engineering, Nextreme

Advances in distributed sensors and sensor networks have led to an increased interest in the use of renewable power sources to replace or augment existing power systems. The use of heat is an attractive source of energy for many low-power sensor applications.
● Hear how microscale thin-film thermoelectrics are creating new applications and markets for energy harvesting, ranging from motion sensors in buildings and integrated bearing condition monitoring in turbine engines to data acquisition in plumbing and hands-free faucets.
● Learn how energy harvesting using thermal energy can substantially increase product lifetimes in the field and reduce the total cost of ownership by eliminating battery replacement.

Don’t Forget to Check Out the Energy Harvesting Pavilion on the Expo Floor featuring leading energy harvesting technology vendors! Register today for a Main Conference Pass and gain access to the energy harvesting Conference sessions AND the Expo Floor Pavilion.