Partnership includes joint evaluation board to
accelerate evaluation and design of at-a-distance wireless charging
for smart buildings, industrial IoT sensors applications, retail
electronic displays and more
Today Energous Corporation (Nasdaq: WATT), the developer of
WattUp®, a revolutionary wireless charging 2.0 technology,
announced a partnership with e-peas S.A. (“e-peas”), a leading
semiconductor company developing energy harvesting PMICs and
extremely low-power microcontrollers, to develop an evaluation
board combining e-peas’ power management IC technology with
Energous’ radio frequency (RF) solution to support at-a-distance
wireless charging applications for smart buildings, industrial IoT
sensors, retail electronic displays and more.
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Energous and e-peas will develop an
evaluation board to support at-a-distance wireless charging
applications for smart buildings, industrial IoT sensors, retail
electronic displays and more. (Photo: Business Wire)
“As a leader in at-a-distance wireless charging, we are excited
to work closely with e-peas, the leading supplier of IoT energy
harvesting power management and extremely low-power
microcontrollers at the edge, to offer integrated solutions like
this board to allow for faster evaluation of distance-based
wireless charging,” said Stephen R. Rizzone, president and CEO of
Energous Corporation. “Our WattUp technology is designed for the
growing retail, smart building and industrial IoT markets to
address concerns around battery life and maintenance
logistics.”
“The results of this joint effort between Energous and e-peas
will be to introduce the capabilities and advantages of a small
form factor, highly integrated solution that will enable charging
distances greater than one meter, eventually extending out to
several meters,” said Cesar Johnston, COO and executive vice
president of Energous Corporation. “The core WattUp technology
supporting this evaluation board is an outgrowth of the common
architecture we have developed, which emphasizes scalability for
all chip, hardware, software and antenna elements of the technical
solution. “
Belgium-based e-peas provides energy harvesting and processing
solutions to give infinite battery life to wireless devices by
increasing the amount of harvested energy and by drastically
reducing the energy consumption. Key applications for e-peas
solutions include smart buildings, industrial IoT sensors and
retail. This evaluation board will allow companies to integrate
this technology for testing and evaluation in the smart buildings,
wireless sensors market and electronic displays. The wireless
sensors market alone is projected to grow nearly 3x in the next
four years, from $5B in 2019 to $14.6B by 2025.
“As the wireless sensors market grows, so too is the need for
avoiding battery maintenance costs. That is why at-a-distance
solutions capable of charging more than a meter away are critical,”
said Geoffroy Gosset, CEO and co-founder of e-peas. “We believe
that the combination of both Energous’ WattUp and e-peas AEM
technologies on a single evaluation board will ease the deployment
of zero-maintenance solutions on multiple markets.”
The evaluation board functionality is expected to include:
- DA2210 WPT rectifier
- E-peas AEM30940 harvesting PMIC
- Supercap or rechargeable lithium battery support
- Smartbond DA14531-based BLE SoC
- Ambient light and temperature/humidity sensors
- Support for E-Ink display charging (optional)
- Support for external harvesting antenna
Energous’ WattUp wireless charging technology is based on radio
frequency, which provides a number of benefits for wireless
charging including the ability to be designed into small form
factor products and devices without flat surfaces.
To learn more about Energous, please visit Energous.com or
follow the company on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. To learn more
about e-peas, please visit e-peas.com or follow the company on
Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Energous Corporation
Energous Corporation (Nasdaq: WATT) is the global leader of
Wireless Charging 2.0 technology. Its award-winning WattUp®
solution is the only technology that supports both contact and
distance charging through a fully compatible ecosystem. Built atop
fast, efficient and highly scalable RF-based charging technology,
WattUp is positioned to offer substantial improvements over older,
first generation coil-based charging technologies in power,
efficiency, foreign device detection, freedom of movement and
overall cost for consumer electronics, medical devices, retail,
military, industrial/commercial IoT, automotive, military, retail
and industrial applications. Energous develops silicon-based
wireless power transfer (WPT) technologies and customizable
reference designs, and provides worldwide regulatory assistance, a
reliable supply chain, quality assurance, and sales and technical
support to global customers. The company received the world’s first
FCC Part 18 certification for at-a-distance wireless charging and
has been awarded 231 patents for its WattUp wireless charging
technology to-date. For more information, please visit
Energous.com.
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About e-peas
e-peas develops and markets disruptive ultra-low power
semiconductor technology. This enables industrial and IoT wireless
product designers to substantially extend battery lifespans and
eliminate the heavy call-out costs of replacing batteries, without
in any way compromising on reliability. Relying on 15 years of
research and patented intellectual property, the company’s products
increase the amount of harvested energy and drastically reduce the
energy consumption of all power consuming blocks within wireless
sensor nodes. Headquartered in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium, with
additional offices in Switzerland and the USA, e-peas offers a
portfolio of energy harvesting power management interface ICs,
microcontrollers and sensor solutions. For more information, please
visit e-peas.com
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