16-18 June 2020
ASSIST Center, North Carolina State University

he inaugural EnerHarv2018 International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Micro-Power Management, was hailed as a major success with participants (and indeed those who missed it!) eagerly asking 'when is the next EnerHarv?' PSMA is now pleased to provide the answer to this, announcing that EnerHarv2020 will held from 16-18 June 2020 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA and will be proudly hosted by Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST),  at North Carolina State University (NCSU). From EnerHarv2018 we saw the value in bringing a broader range of stakeholders to our ecosystem (e.g. packaging, software, industrial design) and the critical need to bring in more end users across multiple applications (building management, medical technologies, assisted living, environmental, conditional monitoring of equipment, systems, power supplies). This strongly influenced our decision to host the event in the Raleigh/Durham area, where there is already a hotbed of industrial and academic activity and a collaborative, existing ecosystem in place via the ASSIST Center.

The workshop will mainly (but not exclusively) be dedicated to making portable power sources last longer for ultra-low power IoT edge devices. Ideally, devices can be powered indefinitely using energy harvesting, where ambient energies are available, but at the very least embedding technologies that minimize the power consumption and maximize the conversion efficiencies.

Moving the event to the US this time shall make it more accessible to many more on the user/implementer side of the industry o compliment the healthy representation from the supply side Attendees will learn of the many constituents of an existing, energy harvesting/micro-power management product ecosystem and how to apply these products to their application requirements in a system optimized way.  They will also learn valuable information to drive optimal design execution and address common pain points in bringing a variety of products to market which will enable a dramatic penetration of energy harvesting solutions into a broader range of applications.

Through networking, attending tutorials, viewing real life demos and participating in discussions, developers will gain a step function increase in their knowledge and ability to develop/gain access to energy harvesting powered solutions. The workshop will demonstrate examples of successful energy harvesting products already created via synergies between the energy harvesting source and the load demand developers.

 EnerHarv2020 will be supported by the EU EnABLES project (No. 730957), which is already building an international 'power IoT' community comprising almost 300 academic and industry stakeholders and already seed funding feasibility studies and providing free of charge access to expertize and facilities across leading research institutes in Europe.  Numerous other, sponsoring organizations shall be announced following along the tradition set by EnerHarv2018.

An opportunity not to be missed for anyone interested in 'powering the internet of things.'  

In future newsletters we will provide further details on the event including the organizing and technical committees, sponsors, outline program an initial speaker line up. In the interim, if you would like to learn more or get involved please contact the PSMA Energy Harvesting committee co-chairs Mike Hayes (General Chair, michael.hayes@tyndall.ie) or Brian Zahnstecher (Technical Chair, bz@powerrox.com).

Provided by PSMA Energy Harvesting Committee Co-Chairs

Mike Hayes, Tyndall National Institute
Brian Zahnstecher, PowerRox

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