PMU design (Power Management Unit)
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Discrete and Silicon power management circuit for energy harvesting and micro-power management. Energy source platform that can supplement battery operation Tools, expertise and testbed to optimise WSN power and/or maximise energy harvested
Description
PMIC (Energy Harvesting Power Management IC)
– Power characterization and Energy harvesting compatibility suite for application validation
– Low power analog & mixed signal design for IoT circuit building blocks, e.g. impedance matching, MPPT, oscillators, modulators, cold start boost.
– Simulation tools & libraries to optimize circuit and system level performance
– Testbeds & system optimization tools
eSiP (Energy Source in Package)
– Ability to add energy harvesting, storage and power management circuits (discrete and silicon)
– Embed integration technologies such as PCBs, substrates, micro-transfer printing, magnetics
– WSN power consumption, energy harvesting based battery life optimisation suite and testbed
– Tools and expertise to optimise WSN power for various applications.
– On-site digitally interoperable deployment testbed to do real-life experiments to optimise power consumption and work around energy constraints at node and network level.
Technical specifications:
Focusing on power solutions for ultra low power (ULP) WSNs in the energy harvesting sweet spot of 1-200uW where many real-life ambient energies can significantly extend WSN battery life, in some cases offering full autonomy.
Case study:
Here are some previous TAs from EnABLES (power IoT predecessor to EnABLES)
Stories – Access to facilities & expertise (enables-project.eu)
Optional:
Please look at EnABLES position paper for vision to power IoT with context, sweetspot and ecosystem for collaboration
Position Paper – Access to facilities & expertise (enables-project.eu)
Also look at EnerHarv 2022 publication
EnerHarv 2022 Data Repository – EnerHarv
Mike Hayes, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland “EnABLES – Free of charge power IoT feasibility studies undertaken”
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