Solar Powered Remote Sensors for the IoT

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Solar powered hybrid devices with on-board energy storage can enable compact remote sensing devices that collect and transmit field data to the cloud to support 24/7 monitoring and surveying applications.

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Competitive advantage

  • Expertise in photovoltaics and energy storage
  • Practical experience in fabrication of hybrid devices
  • Expertise in durable device encapsulation
  • Circuit and device modelling/simulation expertise

Impact

  • Self-powered sensors and devices to enable monitoring and/or survey data to be collected from remote areas and assimilated via cloud computing into historical and/or predictive models
  • Hybrid photovoltaic and storage functionality for solar-powered devices and tools, and medical implants

Successful applications

  • Demonstrated hybrid device based on a commercially-produced silicon solar cell

Capabilities and facilities

  • Extensive expertise in both photovoltaics and energy storage research
  • State-of-the-art laboratory facilities for both photovoltaics and energy storage research and fabrication of hybrid devices