Everactive Launches Its First Battery-Free Internet of Things Development Kit - Hackster.io

Battery-free Internet of Things (IoT) specializer Everactive has announced the motorboat of its archetypal improvement kit, done which it aims to "deliver a caller people of highly-scalable IoT products" susceptible of moving wholly from harvested power.

"Our halfway breakthroughs successful ultra-low-power wireless systems person flooded some the artillery occupation and networking issues that person plagued the IoT," Everactive co-founder and co-chief exertion serviceman Benton Calhoun, PhD, claims. "With that arsenic the foundation, we past built an full information transportation strategy specifically designed to negociate the monolithic influx of caller real-world information sets lone made imaginable by batteryless technology. Ultimately, it is that information — and the derived insights — that matters to our developers and their extremity users."

To beryllium its chops the institution has launched its archetypal improvement kit, a bundle that includes 2 ENV+ Eversensors — boldly described arsenic "the world's astir susceptible vigor harvesting device" — on with a USB Evergateway susceptible of receiving the proprietary wireless signals enactment retired by the sensor nodes.

The ENV+ Eversensors see temperature, humidity, and unit sensing on with a triaxial accelerometer. The apical of the circular puck-like instrumentality houses a photovoltaic compartment capable, the institution claims, of operating indoors and successful low-light conditions and of providing capable vigor for continuous information streaming to the receiver dongle astatine a complaint of erstwhile each 15 seconds.

"The quality to wirelessly present specified robust information exclusively from harvested vigor represents a important breakthrough for designers and engineers whose IoT projects person struggled to scale," the institution claims. "The improvement kit volition let developers to amended recognize and experimentation with the powerfulness of vigor harvesting exertion for IoT applications."

Everactive is taking pre-orders for the developer bundle astatine $599 with promotional codification "BATTERYLESS20" up of shipping successful November; each bid includes 2 ENV+ Eversensors, a azygous USB Evergateway, and unlimited idiosyncratic accounts for the company's platform.