Notes | Green IoT Energy Harvesting Technology (GIoTEH)

Notes | Green IoT Energy Harvesting Technology (GIoTEH)

The main contribution or innovation of this article is the proposal of an architecture called GIoTEH (Green IoT Energy Harvesting), which aims to build a more sustainable and efficient green IoT ecosystem through Environmental Energy Harvesting (EH) technology. The specific contributions and innovations include: Integration of EH Technology with IoT: Proposing the combination of green … Read more

Classification of Distributed Sensor Networks

Classification of Distributed Sensor Networks

A distributed sensor network (hereinafter referred to as a distributed sensor network) consists of a series of sensors connected via the Internet. These sensors can be embedded in an integrated circuit device, capable of collecting signals, processing signals, communicating with each other, and performing simple computational tasks. Sensors are arranged in different environments, and the … Read more

Industry Information Dispatch: PMICs Are Not That Simple

(Source: semiengineering) The semiconductor industry is vast, and some more specialized product categories often hide surprises. It is well known that large chips like CPUs and GPUs are expensive, and memory chips are ubiquitous. However, many observers know very little about the field of Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMICs). The technology behind PMICs is impressive. … Read more

Recent Advances in Smart Textiles: Composition and Characteristics

Recent Advances in Smart Textiles: Composition and Characteristics

Introduction The smart textile market is gradually becoming a new engine for global economic growth. Market research company ReportLinker predicts that the global smart textile market is expected to grow from $2.52 billion in 2021 to $9.3 billion by 2026, with a compound annual growth rate of 28.7%. In the next decade, during the Internet … Read more

Advances in Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Blue Energy Harvesting

Advances in Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Blue Energy Harvesting

Recently, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced the top ten emerging chemical technologies for 2024, and the triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) technology invented by Academician Zhonglin Wang and his team from the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was selected. The related research by Academician Wang’s team, titled … Read more

Energy Harvesting in Wearable Technology

Energy Harvesting in Wearable Technology

Click the Blue Text to Follow Us SUBSCRIBE to US WEI GAO/CALTECH Wearable devices, like almost all other technologies, require energy. Fortunately, energy is actually ubiquitous under the moderate power budget of wearable devices. It exists in sunlight and radio waves, sweat and body heat from the skin, and the movements and footsteps of a … Read more

What Is Passive IoT?

What Is Passive IoT?

Following Cat.1, the IoT industry in 2021 has welcomed a new “trend”. This “trend” is called “Passive IoT”. What exactly is Passive IoT? How does it differ from existing IoT technologies? Is it really a high-tech breakthrough, or just another hype? In this article, I will guide you through the details. █ What Is Passive … Read more

Analysis and Outlook of Passive IoT Technology

Analysis and Outlook of Passive IoT Technology

“The Internet of Things” is the ultimate ideal of the IoT industry. IoT Analytics reports that the current number of active IoT terminals worldwide is 12.3 billion, and it is expected to exceed 27 billion by 2025. To achieve more terminal interconnections, relying solely on LPWAN technologies such as NB-IoT and LoRa is far from … Read more

What Is Ambient IoT? A Comprehensive Overview

What Is Ambient IoT? A Comprehensive Overview

Author / Yuyou Caicai Word Count / 4200 Energy is everywhere around us. Light, heat, wind, waves, sound, electromagnetic radiation, and mechanical vibrations are all forms of energy. If IoT devices could free themselves from the limitations of power sources and batteries, relying entirely on harvesting energy from the environment for communication, true ubiquitous connectivity … Read more

Pursuing Longer Battery Life: The Rise of Low-Power MCUs

Pursuing Longer Battery Life: The Rise of Low-Power MCUs

As the demand for battery life in terminal devices increases, low-power MCUs are becoming more widely used. So, what is a low-power MCU? Which categories have a strong demand for low-power MCUs? What trends are emerging in the development of low-power MCUs? Wide Application Scenarios “Typically, low-power MCUs utilize different design methods and processes compared … Read more