Battery-less IoT sensor node development kit

Everactive has a development kit for its battery-less IoT system in the pipeline.

“The company’s self-powered hardware and managed network is purpose-built to acquire and deliver the dense physical-world data,” it said.

The development kit includes two of Everactive’s  batteryless IoT devices (left), each with a sensors to measure temperature, humidity, pressure and tri-axial acceleration.

Power comes from a low-light indoor photovoltaic harvester, and the device can transmit measurement data wirelessly every 15s.

The company has a purpose-built wireless network called Evernet, and said: “Delivering data through a managed network simplifies the activation process and improves the speed at which an engineer can begin to experiment.”

According to the company, over 15,000 of its devices have been deployed in initial applications, and those “applications have helped an array of end-users such as Anheuser-Busch InBev, Colgate-Palmolive, Kraft-Heinz, Merck, and the United States Air Force. Now, third-party developers can reap the benefits of battery-less technology for their own IoT products and services”.

Orders for the development kits are being accepted for shipping beginning in November.