Is RF energy harvesting viable to power an IoT sensor?
Vast armies of sensors are crucial to feeding IIoT monitoring and analysis applications. Powering these edge nodes is increasingly a channel. Even though modern microcontrollers exhibit ultra-low power consumption characteristics, a battery would need to be replaced at some stage, the total cost of which is typically more than the sensor. Provisioning line/mains power infrastructure is equally expensive.
How about energy harvesting? Could this provide a viable power source? What about harvesting ambient RF energy?
In this video, we investigate the potential for powering IIoT sensors using this approach.
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Credits and thanks
e-Peas for the evaluation boards and to Mike Green, at Publitek, e-Peas PR agent, for arranging them.
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- Pasternack
RF energy harvesting video resource links
dBm, mW conversion table - www.electronics-notes.com/art...
RF for non-RF engineers - www.ti.com/lit/ml/slap127/sla...
Path loss information - www.electronics-notes.com/art...
Path loss calculator - www.pasternack.com/t-calculat...
E-peas AEM30940 - e-peas.com/wp-content/uploads...
Eval board - e-peas.com/wp-content/uploads...
Quick start guide - e-peas.com/wp-content/uploads...
e-peas FAQ - e-peas.com/faq/
30 дек 2021