Empowering Smart-Home Devices with Low-Light Energy Harvesting
Ambient Photonics’ Joshua Wright discusses the details behind the company’s low-light energy-harvesting solar cells, which offer a solution to smart-home power requirements.
The proliferation of connected devices promises to revolutionize consumer, commercial, and industrial applications. However, they require continuous power, which until now has meant batteries that must be replaced or recharged. Legacy solar technologies like amorphous silicon cells, long used on solar calculators and children’s toys, don’t yield sufficient power in the real-world, low-light operational conditions for many applications.
Ambient Photonics addresses both the low-power-density and high-cost problems of legacy technologies with powerful low-light energy-harvesting solar cells. In this podcast, we talk to Joshua Wright, VP of Engineering at Ambient Photonics, about the smart home and how the company’s technology can deliver the needed power.
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An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.
