Sensors Converge

Many of the key, enabling technologies of the Internet of Things (IoT) or Industrial IoT (IIoT) have advanced over the years to take us from the emerging concept of adding the “smart” label to everything to now delivering products in the consumer and industrial mainstreams.  Self-powered energy sources (a.k.a. – energy harvesting or EH), intelligent power management, advancements in semiconductors/MEMS, low-power wireless communications, energy storage, and test/validation have converged in a perfect storm of opportunity for optimizing energy efficiency, utilization, and therefore battery life.

This full-day, pre-conference symposium will take attendees on a comprehensive journey through this vast, power IoT ecosystem by talking about each of these topics in terms of the individual nuances/challenges/needs/opportunities that all converge under the common objective of maximizing energy efficiency and extending product battery life. This will be accomplished by delivering the information in very pragmatic formats of best practices and guidelines geared primarily toward Design Engineers and those associated with architecting and delivering products to market. There will also be plenty of panel/open discussion to engage participants and facilitate the real-time needs of engineers working to get products from a bench concept into the hands of customers.

BONUS: the day will conclude with a special networking demo session that will cover many of the salient technologies and use cases in an interactive, non-commercial format focusing on functionality and design enablement.

Agenda 
9:00 am  Introductory Comments
Brian Zahstecher, Principal, PowerRox

9:05am TBD

9:35 am IIoT for Condition Monitoring – Battery Life Challenges:
Ed Spence, Managing Director, The Machine Instrumentation Group

10:05 am Intelligent Power Management for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensors
Paul Davis, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Atmosic

10:35 am Denis Pasero, Product Commercialization Manager, Ilika

11:05 am  PANEL: Bringing Your EH-powered Product to Fruition

12:00 pm BREAK FOR LUNCH

1:00 pm Emerging Zero-Standby Solutions for Miscellaneous Electric Loads
Daniel Gerber, Electronic Research Scientist/Engineer, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs

1:30 pm  Space-Constrained Devices with Ultra-low Power Consumption Budget Powered by the SIMO Architecture
Gaurav Mital, Director of Product Definition/System Architecture, Analog Devices

2:00 pm  Addressing System Integration Challenges in Energy Harvesting and Power Management for Wearable Systems
Marco Belcastro, Senior Application Engineer, Tyndall National Institute

2:30 pm Testing & Verification Strategies for ULP Systems
Mike Schnecker, Business Development Manager, Rohde & Schwarz

3:00 pm  Brian Closing Comments / Demo Session Intros

3:10 pm  Real-time, Functional, Interactive Demo Session

4:00 pm  Symposium Ends