The market growth of low-power wireless devices particularly sensors is driving tremendous interest in using energy sources that can power the devices autonomously. The cost of running wires and the ...

Electronic devices are insinuating themselves further into everyday lives, and, of course, they all require power in some form to continue working. Fortunately, energy is all around us in many forms.

Energy harvesting, the practice of scavenging ambient electromagnetic fields, light, or other energy sources, is a fascinating subject that we don’t see enough of here at Hackaday. It’s pleasing then ...

There was a time when tech news was full of talk about long-range wireless charging using a technique known as RF power harvesting – using radio waves to charge devices around the home, without the ...

The efficient use of energy is an ever growing concern in today’s world. Being able to generate clean energy and manage it in the most efficient way has become a hot topic. A concept like the smart ...

This article will review practical applications for energy harvesting technology and discuss the best way to incorporate low power RF radio technology to power wireless sensors in a simple point to ...

A new technical paper titled “RF Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer for Energy Autonomous Wireless Devices and RFIDs” was published by researchers at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, ...

Technology company Powercast has teamed up with Badger Technologies, a provider of retail automation solutions, to offer a robot-based electronic shelf edge label (ESL) management solution that ...

A team of researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) has made a breakthrough in efforts to power sensors using energy harvested from signals emitted by television and cellular ...

Powercast Corp. introduces its Lifetime Power Energy Harvesting Development Kit for Battery Charging featuring near-lossless energy storage and efficient charging via the THINERGY Micro-Energy Cell ...