March Santa Clara, CA Trends, Business & Career Opportunities in Wireless Sensors

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1 Trends, Business & Career Opportunities in Wireless Sensors Harry Zervos / h.zervos@idtechex.com IDTechEx /

2 Overview of IDTechEx services IDTechEx is an independent market research firm providing insight into markets and technologies needed to guide your strategic business decisions. Areas of coverage: Energy Harvesting & Storage IoT, WSN, RFID and Positioning Systems Printed Electronics Emerging Materials & Devices Hybrid & Pure Electric Vehicles 3D Printing New Mobile Phone Technologies Global and timely analysis through: Research Reports Over 70 detailed current studies Custom Consulting Projects Held in 3 continents The Market Intelligence Portal Weekly market, technology and company assessments Global Events Held in 3 continents Journals e.g. With bases in the US, UK, Germany and Japan we have served clients in 80 countries since 1999.

3 Convergence in technology developments ULP Electronics Energy harvesting and storage developments (harvesters, supercapacitors, rechargeable batteries). The total market for energy harvesters is expected to reach $3bn by Source: Energy Harvesting and Storage for Electronic Devices : Forecasts, Technologies, Players Wireless communication protocols Wireless sensor networks. Big data: creating enabling platforms to make use of ubiquitous connectivity

4 Enabling Wireless Sensors Micropelt Thermal Harvesting Cymbet Solar Harvesting + Power Management Low Power Sensor Board PowerCast RF Harvesting Source: Jennic Each Harvester Contains Integrated Energy Storage Electrodynamic, Piezoelectric Magnetostrictive Harvesting

5 Envisaged applications for WSN Energy Saving Smart Home Improve Food & H 2 0 Transport and Assets Tracking Healthcare Predictive Maintenance Improve Productivity Source: Jennic Remote Controls Gaming Price Display

6 Applications in the build environment [1] wireless switches [2] wireless outdoor light sensors [3] wireless occupancy sensor [4] wireless room temperature sensor [5] wireless climatic sensors [6] [7] wireless position sensors [8] Central control [9] Remote monitoring/control

7 Civil infrastructure Smart Cities Libelium s Waspmote

8 The case for wireless condition monitoring Temperature/vibration/strain etc. condition monitoring: allowing for preventative maintenance rather than reactive maintenance, minimizing downtime, wiring costs etc.

9 Monitoring rotating equipment In June 2013 Perpetuum won a contract to supply Southeastern Railways with energy harvester powered wireless sensors to monitor the wear of wheel bearings for 148 Trains. 10mW 15mW of continuous power for the duration of the journey

10 Some industries more demanding than others Monitoring industial equipment in factories has different requirements to monitoring oil wells, aircraft integrity, etc. Difference in development/testing/robustness verification times Automotive sector also needing cycle times of up to 15+ years due to safety considerations.

systems (if needed) Applications Horizontal

11 The Value Chain: WSN Energy Harvesting Component Energy Storage Component Interfacing Electronics Ultra low power Electronics Hardware integration Software and back end systems (if needed) Applications Horizontal Players Vertical Players No one fit all solution feedback needed

12 Conclusions TODAY Suppliers are mostly not profitable yet, the most successful ones have revenues of a few tens of millions of $/year Currently identifying what IoT means RFID - IoT Wireless Sensors Novel Storage Harvesting Tech SUPPLIER END-POINT Wide scale adoption and profitability CORE CHALLENGES Clear value service offering for each of the end-user sectors targeted System supply, integration of legacy systems Cost of ownership ROI: Proven user cases (lessons from RFID?) Industry will be smaller volume in the short term. Government incentives create volume demand. Consumer electronics will create massive markets.

13 Conclusions Significant interest so far mostly in the building automation sector. In October 2013, ABB, Bosch, Cisco, and LG, signed a memorandum which would allow diverse devices and services to interoperate, and to exchange information with each other. But Industrial automation building up pace, some sectors more difficult to penetrate than others. Large worldwide investment in thermoelectric generators for waste heat recovery in vehicles but also many other options becoming relevant in the automotive space (GPS,TPMS, automated driving..) Integration of the functionality of mobile platforms will open up significant new opportunities and lead to expanded markets (LBS). Battery technology competition a major hindrance.

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14 IDTechEx Research on energy harvesting and wireless sensors Energy Harvesting and Storage for Electronic Devices : Forecasts, Technologies, Players Mobile Phone Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) and Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) Forecasts, Players, Opportunities Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) : Forecasts, Technologies, Players

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15 IDTechEx Research on energy harvesting and wireless sensors Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting: Devices, Applications & Opportunities Organic Photovoltaics: Technologies, Markets and Players Dye Sensitized Solar Cells: Technologies, Markets and Players Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting : Forecasts, Technologies, Players

16 Stay updated with IDTechEx Energy Harvesting Journal Daily Global news interpreted by experts Energy Harvesting Europe & USA The World s largest events on the topic

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