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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; -
Ecosystem for Transactive Energy Management Using Blockchain Technology
The management of power distribution networks has become increasingly challenging, largely due to high electricity demand and the growing use of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) such as renewables. As a result, the traditional hierarchical and centrally-controlled approach of managing power distribution networks is now shifting towards the use o -
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 -
Method to Improve PV System Performance Monitoring
Within the solar energy industry, there is a general motto of "install it and forget it " for solar energy. This idea is largely derived from the research and reliability studies performed on the PV panels themselves but not the PV system as a whole (including inverters and other components). Other PV system components such as i nverters contribute -
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 -
Data-driven Performance Analytics, Health Monitoring and Optimization for Chiller Plants
Water-cooled chillers often consume between 40-60% of the total energy used in commercial buildings. According to the 2017 Building and Construction Authorities' (BCA) Building Energy Benchmarking Report, retrofitting and performance improvement measurements on chillers increased plant efficiencies by 42% on average, from 1.1 kW/RT to 0.63 kW/RT. A -
Smart Telemetry for e-Mobility Battery Power System
The smart telemetry is a system for remote monitoring of the status and parameters of the battery system in electric vehicles. The system front-end comprises of Global Positioning System (GPS) and 3rd Generation/4th Generation cellular communication (3G/4G) enabled devices with built-in sensors, to provide battery stack monitoring and data-logging -
Smart Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) System
The Smart UPS system features a fully-modular system which is scalable and portable based on user's need. It is a portable and modular power system consisting of a master control unit, accompanied by slave battery power units. The master control unit has a touch-screen LCD control panel, power inverter, battery charger and telemetry system. The sla -
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 -
High Performance Membranes for Energy Harvesting by Pressure Retarded Osmosis
Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) is a process where water flows naturally from a low salinity stream (feed water) at an ambient pressure across a semi-permeable membrane to a pressurized high salinity stream (draw solution). This process is driven by the osmotic pressure difference across the membrane. The increased volume of pressurized solution ca -
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 -
Conductive electrode for a dye sensitized solar battery with high conductivity and stability and the solar battery
(Pin mặt trời và thiết bị điện cực dẫn điện nhạy cảm với độ dẫn điện và độ ổn định cao) PURPOSE: A conductive electrode for a dye sensitized solar battery and the solar battery using the same are provided to dope sulfamic acid in polyaniline, thereby providing a counter electrode for a dye sensitized solar battery with good conductivity. CONSTITUTI -
Method of modifying graphene, modified graphene thereby and solar-cel
(Phương pháp sửa đổi graphene, ứng dụng graphene biến đổi đối với pin mặt trời) This abstract is currently in preparation -
Texturing method for solar cell wafer
(Phương pháp kết cấu cho wafer pin mặt trời) The present invention refers to a PH response swab apparatus for virus which maximizes sampling rate and recovery rate dramatically by interlocking surface charge of macroform with the PH considering features of negative charge in case of a sample like the virus. The PH response swab apparatus for the vi