Wednesday, November 20, 2019

How to make a low-cost battery-free “energy harvesting” switch

While the IoT market is growing rapidly, it is pointed out that these technologies have significant energy problems. As the number of IoT nodes increases, the cloud server always consumes a huge amount of power, and the end node consumes a large amount of sensors and switches. This document describes a batteryless switch for energy harvesting (energy harvesting), which is a solution to solve the energy problems of such large-scale IoT systems.

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On Semiconductor and ZF, a major automotive parts supplier in Germany, designed a reference for an energy harvesting wireless switch using On Semiconductor's Bluetooth 5 certified chip “RSL10 wireless SoC”. This is a mechanism for transmitting a switching signal wirelessly by using a minute electric power generated by a mechanical operation of pressing a switch. The energy required for transmission is 100 μJ, while the energy that can be extracted from the mechanical switch is 300 μJ, which is a sufficient value.

This wireless switch is ideal for smart building management because it is easy to install in addition to reducing energy consumption. In addition, as a consumer lighting switch, wireless and battery-less convenience is evaluated.
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