Cymbet’s Universal Energy Harvesting Kit Available Now

Cymbet Corporation announced the global launch of its EnerChip EP CBC-EVAL-09 Universal Energy Harvesting evaluation kit. The EVAL-09 is the first kit to support all types of ambient energy harvesting from light, vibration, thermal gradients and flow/motion. The kit features the award winning EnerChip Energy Processor CBC915-ACA, auniversal energy harvesting power management unit for ultra-low power energy harvesting-based systems.

The EnerChip Energy Processor (EP) is the first device to work universally across all energy harvesting transducer technologies including photovoltaic, thermoelectric, piezoelectric and electromagnetic. EnerChip Energy Processor specifications can be found at http://www.cymbet.com/content/products-enerchip-eh.asp.

The EVAL-09 is in stock and avaiable from Digi-Key, Mouser and Avnet.

In order to store the harvested energy, the EVAL-09 utilizes EnerChip solid state batteries (SSB). EnerChip SSBs have many unique eco-friendly attributes including thousands of times rechargeable so they last the lifetime of the product, no batteries to change and no special disposal needed, no dangerous chemicals/gasses to leak out, no flammable solvents, completely non-combustible, and EnerChips use surface mount technology with reflow solder so no battery holders are required.

“This evaluation kit was created in response to our customers’ desire to build zero power-based devices,” said Jeff Sather Cymbet’s vice president, customer solutions, “We are working closely with designers to create new products that self-power with harvested ambient energy. The resulting products such as autonomous wireless sensors, data loggers, smart patches, micro actuators and process controls are all ‘off the grid’ using life-of-product EnerChip energy storage.”

The Cymbet EnerChip Energy Processor provides the unique ability to build “Energy Aware” solutions. By providing the optimal operation of all facets of the power chain: power collection, power conversion, energy storage, and power management, the EnerChip EP CBC915 enables a new class of energy harvesting-based systems that address rapidly growing markets. The Darnell Group in their recently released Energy Harvesting Technologies & Energy Storage: Worldwide Forecasts, Third Edition reports thatif taken cumulatively over each year of the forecast period, worldwide unit sales of energy harvesting nodes will result in 630.5 million units being sold between 2010 and 2015.