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Radio-Frequency Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer System
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) allows more sensors to be used for monitoring, detection and security purposes. However, this also introduces new problems to the user: Short sensor's lifespan (due to reliance on battery as the main power source) affecting the service operation, Cost and hassle associated with frequent maintenance and -
World’s Smallest Flow Sensor for Integration into Smart Systems
A European start-up company has developed the world's smallest gas flow sensor. The tiny 3.5 mm x 3.5 mm CMOS MEMS sensor is small enough to fit into virtually any product and can be positioned where measurements matter. Examples of use cases include: active filter monitoring in vacuum cleaners, air-conditioning units and other consumer appliances; -
Agricultural Sensors Powered by the Soil
Every day, the use of sensors in agriculture b e c o m e s m o r e widespread . Sensors are used to measure climate conditions and soil parameters (such as humidity and pH), t o predict crop yields and to identify potential dangers . Chemical batteries are the most common solution for the storage of energy in smart agriculture systems. They exhibit -
Self-powered IoT Devices Based on Energy Harvesting Technology
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly deployed in various industries to do sensing, processing the information and automizing the systems. However, most of the existing IoT devices use batteries, leading to batteries replacement issues, especially with the significant growth in the number of IoT devices. Therefore, we develop a self-pow -
Molecularly Imprinted Piezoelectric Quartz Sensor
The sensor technology is based on molecular imprinting and piezoelectric effect that enable real-time and label-free sensing of mass changes and energy dissipation on a surface originated from molecules adsorption, and molecular interactions, with high sensitivity and selectivity. This technology leverages on nanomaterial technology, enabling conve -
Faster, Lower-cost Quartz Crystal Microbalance Sensor based on Mussel-Inspired Molecularly Imprinted Polymer
This technology uses a simpler, inexpensive and faster mussel-inspired polymer to generate molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) film on quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) crystals of QCM sensors. This sensor is designed for the purposes of research, testing, and monitoring, in the areas of chemical, biological and medicinal, agriculture, and material -
A Green and Safe battery Made From Recycled Nuclear Fuel With No Need for Recharge or Replacement
A UK company has developed a battery that does not run out. This is by using recycled nuclear waste and it converts radiation energy into electrical energy. Because it uses nuclear waste that stays radioactive for thousands of years, it can also produce electricity for thousands of years as well. In other words, it is a battery that never runs out, -
Optical Fibre-Based Humidity Sensor for Harsh Environments
This optical fibre sensor has been developed in cooperation with an industrial collaborator that has an application requiring a sensor capable of measuring humidity in a harsh waste water treatment environment. The sensor employs a Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) which acts as the basis of the Relative Humidity (RH) sensor design and the humidity sensing -
Sensor-as-a-Service
This sensor-as-a-service offering can kickstart the user's IoT journey with ease. The service includes hardware, software and connectivity. The package features five sensor types: a temperature and humidity sensor a human passive infra-red (PIR) detector a magnetic sensor that detects opening and closing of assets an asset locating tracker a smart -
Powerline based Secure Clock Synchronization Solutions
Clock synchronization and time keeping are crucial in distributed applications like smart city sensor networks, manufacturing systems, data centres, etc. The various distributed elements like the sensors and actuators within the system should have tight clock synchronization to make sense of the collected data and provide timely controls. State of -
A Nanoplasmonic Device for High Performance Nanotechnology Products
Nanoplasmonics deal with creating ultra-compact components for nanoscale photonic devices to match their electronic counterparts. Focusing on control and manipulation of plasmons at nanometre dimensions, nanoplasmonics combines the strength of electronics and photonics and is predicted to replace existing integrated circuits and photonic devices. I -
Self-Sustainable Smart Electrical Current Sensors and Condition Monitors for Smart Safe Cities and Living
This is a groundbreaking proprietary technology on "Self-sustainable Smart Electrical Current Sensors (SsSECSs)" and their "Energy-harvesting Self-powered Wireless Electrical Condition Monitors (EhSpWECMs)" for safeguarding electrical assets, enabling smart and safe cities, and promoting good-quality living environments. Electricity is the lifebloo -
Phase Change Material (PCM) Based Heat Sink with Volumetric Expansion Control
The present invention relates to the assembly of a passive thermal management system, namely a phase change material (PCM) heat sink, which includes a mechanism to relive the pressure within the chamber during the expansion of the phase change material. The most common method of encapsulating PCM is to fill the chamber in its expanded state, i.e. l -
Low Cost, Low Power, Easy to Deploy Wireless Modems for Large Scale Industrial & Commercial IoT Projects
We have developed a hardware cum software IoT platform that will make it easier and cheaperto collect data or send alerts/messages from standard machines, instruments, sensors and meters installed in remote places - over low power wide area wireless networks (LPWAN) such as Sigfox, LoRa &NB-IoT. Our first products arenovel plug & play communication -
Portable Electro-chemical Sensor for Environmental Monitoring and Food Safety Applications
The monitoring of environmental contaminants has become crucial as they can causeadverse health effects. Regulatory bodies around the world have setstrict limits on the use and emission of these hazardous substances. Ensuring compliance to these regulations is often achieved to chemical analysis in a laboratory, but nowadays there is a pressing nee -
Smart Underwater Battery Power System for Inspection Remote Underwater Vehicles
Ships coming into docks are required to undergo hull inspections and dock position checks. This task is traditionally performed by human divers. Recently, remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) have been deployed to aid in this process. However, conventional ROVs require the use of long umbilical cables or tethers to power the vehicles from s -
Closed-Loop Automatic Frequency Control of Wireless Power Transfer
This technology has been developed in response to the state-of-the-art wireless power transfer systems, especially, in response to a need that has not been fully solved by current wireless power transfer systems. Magnetic resonance coupling is used to extend the effective charging range of inductive coupling from only a few millimeters to several c -
Integrated Fibre Optic Sensor Based Monitoring System for LNG Terminals
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is an important fuel source for Singapore, and the safe operation of the Singapore LNG Terminal will contribute to a secure energy supply for Singapore. However, the cryogenic environment of LNG presents challenges for safety monitoring and consequence analysis of potential incidents at the LNG terminal, including LNG ro