IEEE Power Electronics Magazine - June 2023 - 16

PSMA Corner
by Renee Yawger
EnerHarv Workshop
Facilitates IoT Ecosystem
he Power Sources Manufacturers
Association (PSMA)
(www.psma.com) strives to
identify and increase awareness and
knowledge of trends that impact the
power sources and conversion
devices community. Several PSMA
committees are focused on emerging
technologies. The Energy Harvesting
Committee (EHC) (https://
www.psma.com/technical-forums/
energy-harvesting) is focused on
building an ecosystem for powering
the internet of things (IoT). The
committee hosts the biennial EnerHarv
workshop (http://www.EnerHarv.com/)
to bring together experts
working on all technical areas relevant
to energy harvesting, energy
storage, power management, and its
applications in the IoT along with
several other related markets (i.e.,
medical wearables, ubiquitous selfpowered
sensor networks, etc.).
International Energy Harvesting
Workshop
Following a two-year COVID-related
deferral, EnerHarv 2022 was held at
the ASSIST Center (https://assistcenter.org/)
in North Carolina State
University (https://www.ncsu.edu/)
from 5 to 7 April 2022. Each day of
the workshop offered a combination
of technical sessions, functional
demonstrations, posters, panel
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FIG 1 Functional demonstrations of energy-harvesting technologies.
sessions, and networking opportunities
to cultivate education and relationship
building.
Each of the three days opened
with a keynote address from industry
and academia. The University of
San Diego opened the proceedings
with insight on the development
and integration of miniaturized
energy harvesting, wireless power
transfer and related components,
and the advantages of integration
at semiconductor and module levels.
The ASSIST Center provided an
overview of their activities related
to the development of technologies
and demonstrators for wearables
including their rapid prototyping
group to drive technologies to higher
technology
readiness levels
(TRLs) (Figure 1). The final keynote
from Analog Devices gave a
perspective on the challenges and
opportunities of powering the IoT.
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The keynote included some examples
of ADI's roadmap incorporating
disruptive technologies in the
wearables and Industry 4.0 sectors
for sensors, power management,
and wireless communications. ADI
is also evaluating sustainability
aspects in design, including reliabi
l ity in terms of both performance
and lifetime.
Four technical sessions were
offered including transducer, system
integration, energy storage,
and power management. Two panel
sessions included par ticipants
from a variety of backgrounds. The
panel " Powering the Next-generation
WSN Experience " spawned a
fruitful discussion on the challenges,
gaps, and opportunities associated
with bringing the ubiquitous
sensor and IoT deployments to
mainstream appl icat ions. The
" Power
IoT Ecosystem " panel

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