Custom Technology & Market Briefing 7:
Micro energy sources and micro energy scavengers market
The market demand for energy sources on the centimetre scale is
rapidly expanding. On the one hand, micro energy scavengers such as
thermoelectric generators and mechanical vibration harvesters are being
developed to provide power to a variety of autonomous wireless sensors.
Besides industrial and environmental applications, volume applications
are emerging in automotive. On the other hand, micro fuel cells are
being developed specifically to meet the dramatically increasing power
and energy requirements of portable electronic devices such as cell
phones. What are real applications of micro energy harvesters? Which
scavenging concept will target which application? Will micro fuel cells
only replace AC adapters? Will they be integrated in the cell phones?
What are time scales for commercialisation?
Core part of the briefing
- Technical overview:
- Micro energy sources for portable electronics: fuel cells, micro turbines
- Micro energy harvesters: movements and vibrations scavenging, thermo generators, solar cells, inductive powering…
- Others (e.g. nano based batteries)
- Applications and requirements for portable electronics
- Cell phones
- Laptops and other consumer products
- Industrial, military and medical applications
- Applications and requirements for wireless sensor networks
- Industrial, energy, environment, defence and homeland security applications
- Medical applications
- Automotive applications
- Building and home automation
- Other: Consumer, Aerospace applications
- Challenges and opportunities
- Key players, latest developments
- Market forecasts, detailed by application
- You prepare your specific questions in advance (techniques and economics)
- We build on our existing knowledge and carry out additional specific research to answer your strategic questions (3 to 4 weeks)
- We present and discuss the result in a custom briefing at WTC in Munich, at your company or in a teleconference