Energy Harvesting is emerging as an important way to power electronic devices using the ambient energy surrounding the device. There are sites on the web to get additional information on the broad topic of Energy Harvesting. This is a starter list:
- APEC 2012 Industry Session on Energy Harvesting presentations: http://www.psma.com/technical-forums/energy-harvesting/presentations
- Fraunhofer Institute has several useful EH sources in English and German: http://www.smart-power.fraunhofer.de/
- The Energy Harvesting Forum provides a list of companies that work in the EH arena: http://www.energyharvesting.net/
- Cymbet has several instructional Energy Harvesting videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Cymbet?feature=watch
- Interesting news from the IDTechEx Journal: http://www.energyharvestingjournal.com
- MicroGen Systems has commercialized some exciting new MEMS-based vibrational harvesters and the videos can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MicroGenSystems
- A new energy harvesting kit built in a cooperative effort between Linear Technology, Wurth Elektronik and Energy Micro video and support documentation is here: www.we-online.com/harvest