French IoT network provider Sigfox has teamed up to produce its first energy harvesting board for long battery life communications.

该董事会由HT Micron在巴西设计，并在CES 2022上显示，使用了荷兰芯片设计师Nowi的电源管理IC（PMIC），该IC（PMIC）已优化，可从环境中收集少量电力。

The collaboration marks the first step for Sigfox towards a commercial development of energy harvesting modules to equip IoT devices and contribute to more sustainability in IoT. Key use cases are applications in smart meters, industrial sensors, asset tracking and air quality monitoring.

The Nowi PMIC is designed to efficiently extract power from ambient energy sources like light and vibration to charge a variety of energy storage elements such as a rechargeable battery or a capacitor. It is best suited for most low power applications such as distributed IoT sensors.

“The low power consumption of Sigfox solutions is particularly well suited to being powered by ambient energy harvesting. As many Sigfox-based applications require intermittent communication intervals, this allows for trickle charging a storage element with energy harvesting in between transmissions,” said Chris Juliano, CCO at Nowi.

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Sigfox and HT Micron have been working together for several years already and HT Micron was identified as a strategic partner for this project as they have the expertise to create innovative modules and they consider energy harvesting essential for IoT mass adoption with sustainability.

“我们很高兴把这个下step with Sigfox and explore energy harvesting solutions as a new way to create added value to our end customers and help them improve their environmental impact,” said Edelweis Ritt, CIO at HT Micron.

“与Nowi和HT Micron的合作是我们建立IoT解决方案的雄心勃勃的另一个证明点，该解决方案将通过大大减少他们的能源消耗来帮助我们的客户保护环境。我们期待着这种新型设备的开发以及它们将产生的积极影响。” Sigfox客户与生态系统成功总监Benjamin Jooris说。

The first step of the project is a development kit integrating Nowi’s PMIC with HT Micron’s Sigfox system-in-package, to be used for testing purposes by R&D and product development teams. Sigfox, Nowi and HT Micron will then work to create a mass production module that can be used by any type of device maker.

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