Web sites

Citation

(2010), "Web sites", Sensor Review, Vol. 30 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr.2010.08730cag.005

Web sites

Article Type: Web sites From: Sensor Review, Volume 30, Issue 3

Energy Harvesting Forum

www.energyharvesting.net/

The Energy Harvesting Forum provides links to web sites of practical products for energy harvesting electronic solutions for wireless sensor networks (WSN) and control systems. The web sites are divided into the following categories: piezoelectric, thermal electric, photo electric, MEMS, inductive magnetic, energy harvesting electronics, WSN, and other application sources.

The homepage also discusses what is energy harvesting; and applications, sources, and components of energy harvesting.

Powercast Corporation

www.powercastco.com/

This is the homepage for Powercast Corporation, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Powercast’s RF energy harvesting technology breaks new ground in remote, wireless power by increasing the efficiency of converting RF energy into DC power and enabling that efficiency over a wide operating range.

Powercast’s comprehensive web site features information on its products which include its receivers, transmitters, development kits, and custom engineering; and applications for WSN, other applications, and future evolution.

The web site also provides a link to various resources which contains product documentation, presentations, planning tools and a blog; as well as a link to its partners and collaborations. There is extensive information on the company including a list of its patents, news and events.

Smart Sensory Integrated Systems Lab

www.ece.ust.hk/∼s2is/index.html

The Smart Sensory Integrated Systems Laboratory (S2IS), part of the Electronic and Computer Engineering Department at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, develops new circuits and systems for smart sensors and microsystems.

The S2IS Lab web site offers the site visitor detailed information on its research, a combination of wide expertise in the areas of integrated circuits, systems and sensors design, as well as signal/image processing algorithms and their VLSI implementation. Other pages highlight the lab’s chip gallery; gas sensors; collaborations; publications; awards; and its people.

EnOcean

www.enocean.com

This is the corporate web site for EnOcean, a company headquartered in Germany that manufactures and markets world-leading energy harvesting technology, sensors, and RF communication in a single solution for building and home automation, lighting, industrial, automated meter reading, and environmental applications.

This thorough, state-of-the-art web site is divided into four main areas:

1. 1.

   solutions for: building automation, home automation, further solutions, and case studies;

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   products and technology which include among its 13 links, energy harvesting, energy harvesting for wireless sensor solution, intelligent wireless sensors, and radio technology;

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   partners; and

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   info and services which provides links, along with others, to Perpetuum, EnOcean’s magazine; EnOcean’s channel on YouTube; and their social media web sites.

There is also a separate page on EnOcean’s Alliance, a membership consortium of companies that has the largest installed base of field-proven wireless building automation networks in the world.

EnOcean’s homepage is a bit busy, but very informative.