ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Energy Harvesting
Energy harvesting systems are the devices that can convert solar power, thermal energy, wind power, mechanical energy and electromagnetic energy into electrical power and save in batteries or super capacitors.
An energy harvesting system is composed of energy collection, energy storage and power management. The energy collection is responsible for capturing the energy that is available in different forms such as solar power, and converting it into electrical power. The electrical power is stored in batteries or super capacitors to feed other devices.
The power management converts the stored power into different voltage and current levels for satisfying the different needs of powered devices.
The common application of the energy harvesting systems can be found in wireless network sensors or wireless detection devices. Owing to the low efficiency of energy harvesting and the scarcity and instability of the available power sources, it is required to select the powered devices featuring low power-consumption to ensure the proper operations. For example, the selected MCU would be generally supposed to have a low power, high integration and sleep mode. The selected wireless module would be working based on the low-power transmission protocols such as the ZigBee built on IEEE 802.15.4.
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Produces electricity when light shines on it. It is the power source of this system.
SANYO
-SCE
SANYO
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Used for processing the signal from sensor and sending it back to ZigBee module.
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
MICROCHIP
NXP SEMICONDUCTORS
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Used for converting the power from energy harvesting device such as solar cell to charge the battery.
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
LINEAR TECHNOLOGY
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Used for converting the power from energy harvesting device such as solar cell to charge the battery.
LINEAR TECHNOLOGY
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
Microchip
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Energy store device to feed the power to other device.
SEIKO INSTRUMENTS
MAXELL
PANASONIC
Cymbet
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RF module, used for wireless connectivity
DIGI INTERNATIONAL
Z01-M00R1T
JENNIC
TELEGESIS
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Power Management
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Sensor
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 | ADVANCED LINEAR DEVICES Designed to Continuously and Actively Operate to Capture, Accumulate and Conserve Energy. | |
 | Cymbet The EnerChip CC EVAL-05 Evaluation Kit is used to demonstrate the capabilities of the EnerChip Thin Film Batteries and the EnerChip CC with Integrated Battery Management capabilities. | |
 | Cymbet CBC-EVAL-10 is a demonstration kit that provides designers a platform to easily develop Energy Harvesting (EH) solutions using the EnerChip CBC3150TM configured to operate in an energy harvesting mode. | |
 | LTC3526 LINEAR TECHNOLOGY High efficiency synchronous boost converter capable of operating with an input voltage range up to 5.5 V. | |
 | MICROCHIP The XLP 16-bit Energy Harvesting Development Kit is a true development platform for realising energy harvesting applications | |
 | ESK 300 EnOcean Wireless sensor development kit consisting of self powered (energy harvesting) push button radio, switch and temperature sensor. | |
 | XL_Star NXP The XL_Star S08 is a cost effective 8-bit development board, featuring battery charging, accelerometer and debugging evaluation. Based around the NXP S08 MCU, the board also contains easily accessible GPIO headers. | |
 | PIC18F26J50 EVK Embest Intended to easily evaluate the Flowcode programming language, the Microchip PIC18F26J50-EVK based "Flowcode" board comes with several sensor peripherals, whilst the software trial easily allows a user to add CAN/LIN and motor control libraries to their code. |
| DIGI INTERNATIONAL | ZigBee DVK | Getting Started Guide: ConnectWare Manager | Click here | ||
| DIGI INTERNATIONAL | ZigBee DVK | Getting Started Guide: Drop-In Networking Kit - 802.15.4 | Click here | ||
| DIGI INTERNATIONAL | ZigBee DVK | Application Guide: How to Perform a Range Test | Click here | ||
| NXP | MCU | Pad Layout Application Note | AN3747 | Click here | |
| LINEAR TECHNOLOGY | Battery Charger | Handheld High Power Battery Charger | DN393 | LTC4001 | Click here |
| LINEAR TECHNOLOGY | DC-DC converter | Energy Harvester Produces Power from Local Environment, Eliminating Batteries in Wireless Sensors | DN483 | LTC3588 | Click here |
| LINEAR TECHNOLOGY | DC-DC converter | Ultra-Low-Voltage Input Power Converters Support Energy Harvesting | Click here | ||
| LINEAR TECHNOLOGY | DC-DC converter | Power-Tracking Battery-Charger IC Supports Solar-Power Systems | Click here | ||
| LINEAR TECHNOLOGY | DC-DC converter | Energy Harvester Produces Power from Local Environment, Eliminating Batteries in Wireless Sensors | Click here | ||
| LINEAR TECHNOLOGY | DC-DC converter | True Grid Independence: Robust Energy Harvesting System for Wireless Sensors Uses Piezoelectric Engergy Harvesting Power Supply and Li-Poly Batteries with Shunt Charger | Click here | ||
| LINEAR TECHNOLOGY | DC-DC converter | Ultralow Voltage Energy Harvester Uses Thermoelectric Generator for Battery-Free Wireless Sensors | Click here | ||
| MICROCHIP | MCU | Practical Applications of Low-Power Design with nanoWatt XLP | Click here | ||
| MICROCHIP | MCU | PIC® MCU Tips 'n Tricks Featuring nanoWatt XLP Technology (DS01146B) | Click here | ||
| MICROCHIP | MCU | nanoWatt & nanoWatt XLP(TM) Technologies: An Introduction to Microchip's Low Power devices | AN1267 | Click here | |
| MICROCHIP | MCU | High-Speed Bootloader for PIC16 and PIC18 Devices | AN1310 | Click here | |
| MICROCHIP | Battery Charger | Power Management in Portable Applications: Charging Lithium-Ion/Lithium-Polymer Batteries | AN947 | MCP73841 | Click here |
| NXP | MCU | Using the LPC13xx Low Power Modes And Wake-up Times on The LPCXpresso | AN10973 | Click here | |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | MCU | MSP430 Family Mixed-Signal Microcontroller Application Reports | SLAA024 | MSP430 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | MCU | Choosing An Ultralow-Power MCU | SLAA207 | MSP430 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | MCU | Understanding MSP430 Flash Data Retention | SLAA392 | MSP430 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | MCU | MSP430 Flash Memory Characteristics | SLAA334A | MSP430 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | MCU | Using the TPS3619 with MSP430 Microcontrollers Can Reduce System Power Consumption With Charge Pumps | SBVA014A | MSP430 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | MCU | 3.6V to 5.5V Input,LDO with Dual-Level Output reference Design For MSP430 | SLVA329 | MSP430 | Click here |
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| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | Energy Harvesting | Ultra Low Power Meets Energy Harvesting | Click here |
| NXP | MCU | Practical Power Comparison MC9S08LL16 MCU Offers 70 percent Reduction | Click here |
| SANYO | Solar Cell | 22% Efficiency Hit Solar Cell | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | ZigBee | Creating a ZigBee Smart Energy Device with the MSP430F54xx and the CC2530-ZNP | Click here |
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| DIGI INTERNATIONAL | ZigBee DVK | XBP08-DK Product Datasheet | XBP08-DK | Click here | |
| DIGI INTERNATIONAL | ZigBee DVK | Drop-in Networking Professional Development Kit | XK-Z11-EBP-WB | Click here | |
| LINEAR TECHNOLOGY | Battery Charger | 2A Monolithic Multi-Chemistry Battery Charger | DC1568A | LT3652EDD#PBF | Click here |
| MICROCHIP | MCU | XLP 16-bit Energy Harvesting Development Kit | DV164133 | Click here | |
| MICROCHIP | Battery Charger | MCP73113 OVP Single-Cell Li-Ion Battery Charger Evaluation Board User's Guide | MCP73113EV-1SOVP | MCP73113 | Click here |
| MICROCHIP | Battery Charger | MCP7382X Evaluation Kit User’s Guide | MCP7382XEV | MCP73826 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | Battery Charger | 0.8-A, Single-Input Single-Cell Li-Ion Battery Charger UG | BQ24040EVM | BQ24040 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | Battery Charger | BQ2415x YFF EVM | BQ24150EVM | BQ24150 | Click here |
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| MICROCHIP | MCU | PIC18F2XK20/4XK20 8-Bit Microcontroller Family | PIC18F | Click here |
| MICROCHIP | MCU | Introduction to the 16-bit PIC24F | PIC24F | Click here |
| MICROCHIP | MCU | An Introduction to nanoWatt XLP: PIC18F46J50 | Click here | |
| MICROCHIP | MCU | 8-Bit CMOS Microcontrollers With nanoWatt Technology | Click here | |
| MICROCHIP | MCU | Deep Sleep Mode on Microchip PIC18F and PIC24F MCUs | Click here | |
| MICROCHIP | MCU | PIC18 J-series Microcontrollers | Click here | |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | MCU | MSP430™ Value Line LaunchPad | MSP430 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | MCU | Introduction to real time operating systems and SYS/BIOS | MSP430 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | MCU | SYS/BIOS Hardware Interrupts and the Idle thread | MSP430 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | MCU | SYS/BIOS Tasks | MSP430 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | MCU | SYS/BIOS Semaphores | MSP430 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | MCU | SYS/BIOS Software Interrupts | MSP430 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | MCU | SYS/BIOS Clock and Timer Services | MSP430 | Click here |
| TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | Energy Harvesting | Power Management for Energy Harvesting | Click here | |
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