Name: Energy Harvesting PMIC and PRoC-BLE Solution for Wireless Sensors
Start: 2016-01-20T15:00Z
End: 2016-01-20T16:00Z

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About This Webinar

Energy harvesting is the process by which energy is derived from external sources (e.g. solar or light energy, thermal energy, and kinetic energy) and stored for small, wireless autonomous devices like those used in Wireless Sensor Nodes (WSNs).

Energy Harvesting Devices (EHDs) provide a very small amount of power for low-energy electronics. Solar modules are the most popular EHDs, since they are readily available, easy to use and low cost. The power generated is proportional to the size of module and varies with brightness.

Energy Harvesting Power Management ICs (PMICs)

An Energy Harvesting PMIC is part of an Energy Harvesting System (EHS) that includes the EHD and a Storage Device. The PMIC receives the intermittent, very low-energy generated by the EHD and transforms that energy for storage in the Storage Device. The Storage Device, which is typically a battery, conventional capacitor, or supercapacitor, then is connected to the rest of the system, providing the power needed to operate.

In this webinar, you will learn about:

Cypress’ low-power, battery-free Energy Harvesting PMIC solution for solar-powered Wireless Sensor Node (WSN) Internet of Things (IoT) Devices
Cypress’ flexible EZ-BLE™ Programmable Radio-on-Chip (PRoC™) Module for WSN communication
Cypress’ Solar-Powered IoT Device Kit, including an Energy Harvesting PMIC, a series solar module, an EZ-BLE PRoC Module and a BLE-USB bridge for connecting to a PC

About The Presenter

Jack Ogawa: Senior Director, Corporate Marketing

Jack Ogawa has been in tech for over 20 years doing B2B marketing, business development, and technical support, compiling a unique blend of experience: Asia/Japan business development focused on communication and handsets, US market development targeting IoT with NFC and HW root of trust, deep embedded system knowledge, plus proven revenue and product management.

Webinar Recording

Attachments:

	CY EH PMIC Solution 20Jan16.pdf
	QA.pdf

element14Dave
Thank you for the Q&A, was waiting for that.

The Q&A is now also attached.

I'm trying to find a use case with a kit that magically arrived at my castle. The first things that comes to mind is:

- something that is in place that's physically hard to get to, so replacing the battery is difficult, or

- something that's in an enclosure that's completely sealed to protect it against environmental harm (needs a window though ).

The webinar recording is now available on the "webinar recording" tab. I have also attached the slides for the presentation. I will post the answers from the Q&A session ASAP.

Dave

Good webminar.

I've had these kits for a couple of months and they're great. Also I feel the way Cypress does BLE is much nicer and more intuitive than say on the Nordic nRF51.

I've just found it tough to justify the extra cost of solar cell + PMIC + extra circuitry when customers can just buy a cheap a CR2032 battery that lasts for a year on BLE. But hope to really find a good application at some point, I'm sure there's one out there.

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element14Dave over 8 years ago +4

The webinar recording is now available on the "webinar recording" tab. I have also attached the slides for the presentation. I will post the answers from the Q&A session ASAP. Dave
element14Dave over 8 years ago in reply to rzr +2

The recording will be published as an embedded YouTube video later this afternoon. Dave
ipv1 over 8 years ago +1

Well that was interesting!

mudz over 8 years ago

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I'm trying to find a use case with a kit that magically arrived at my castle. The first things that comes to mind is:
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jgmarcelino over 8 years ago

Good webminar.

I've had these kits for a couple of months and they're great. Also I feel the way Cypress does BLE is much nicer and more intuitive than say on the Nordic nRF51.

I've just found it tough to justify the extra cost of solar cell + PMIC + extra circuitry when customers can just buy a cheap a CR2032 battery that lasts for a year on BLE. But hope to really find a good application at some point, I'm sure there's one out there.
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