Advanced technologies associated are emerging that make energy harvesting feasible. Advanced storage devices are emerging simultaneously. Storage devices can leverage the power captured by energy harvesting devices. Energy storage technologies of super-capacitors and thin-film batteries have become cost-effective. Energy harvesting devices have attained workable levels of efficiency. There are significant cost reductions. Many applications are related to smarter computing that depends on sensors capturing change in conditions and making adjustments to the environment based on measured change.

Existing energy harvesting and storage applications include vibration-based wireless train measuring systems, wireless sensors distributed city wide to implement smart cities, oil field monitoring systems, windup laptops for use in remote regions, and wireless light switches for use in smart buildings. Wireless sensors are self-powering. They can be used to alert and monitor a range of environments and incidents, pollution and forest fires, robberies in a city, temperature in a building, and movement around a border fence.

Energy harvesting technologies include electrodynamics, photovoltaics, piezoelectrics, and thermovoltaics. Photovoltaic systems for solar energy is mostly outside the scope of this study. The energy harvesting and energy storage market factors light harvesting for small devices.

Technological developments in the fields of low-power electronics and energy storage systems have allowed energy harvesting to become an increasingly viable technology. It is alternatively referred to as energy scavenging and power harvesting. Energy harvesting technology has become sophisticated and efficient.

Energy harvesting is the use of ambient energy to provide electricity for small electronics, for sensor networks, and for mobile equipment. It is able to provide maintenance free, long life energy for equipment, reducing the need for batteries. Units are used to recharge solid state batteries that can handle as many as 40,000 recharges. Energy harvesting provides the ability to connect with existing devices. Energy harvesting is used when wires or batteries are too expensive to be practical.

Energy harvesting depends on the capture of ambient energy, its conversion to usable form, and storage. Common examples of energy harvesting include wristwatches powered by body movement and bicycle dynamo powered by the motion of the wheel.

Integrated circuits can perform algorithmic control and achieve wireless communications using tiny amounts of energy. These integrated circuits provide a technological tipping point that permits the evolution of energy-harvesting-based systems from niche products, to widespread use in wireless networks.

The wireless sensor node is the most important product type forecast for growth as an energy-harvesting solution. Wireless sensors are ubiquitous and very attractive products to implement smarter planet initiatives using harvested energy.

Wireless sensors nodes are commonly placed in hard-to-reach locations. Changing batteries can be costly and inconvenient. Wireless sensors using harvested energy provide off-the-shelf availability of ultra-low-power, single-chip wireless microcontrollers (MCUs) capable of running control algorithms and transmitting data using sophisticated power management techniques.

Energy harvesting markets at $511 million a year market worldwide in 2011 is anticipated to increase tenfold to $5.1 billion by 2018. This strong growth is anticipated to come as units are less expensive and more effective in the same amount of space. Wireless sensor networks are useful almost everywhere, creating the opportunity to implement controls and mange every aspect of human activity in ways that have not even been imagined hitherto.

Report Methodology

This is the 489th report in a series of market research reports that provide forecasts in communications, telecommunications, the internet, computer, software, and telephone equipment. The project leaders take direct responsibility for writing and preparing each report. They have significant experience preparing industry studies. Forecasts are based on primary research and proprietary data bases. Forecasts reflect analysis of the market trends in the segment and related segments. Unit and dollar shipments are analyzed through consideration of dollar volume of each market participation in the segment. Market share analysis includes conversations with key customers of products, industry segment leaders, marketing directors, distributors, leading market participants, and companies seeking to develop measurable market share. Over 200 in-depth interviews are conducted for each report with a broad range of key participants and opinion leaders in the market segment.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Energy Harvesting Executive Summary

Energy Harvesting Market

Wireless Sensor Nodes

Energy Harvesting Minimization of Power Consumption

Energy Harvesting Market Shares

Energy Harvesting Market Forecasts

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Energy Harvesting Market Description and Market Dynamics

 

1.    Energy Harvesting Market

Description and Market Dynamics

1.1   World Economy Undergoing A Transformation

1.1.1    Energy Harvesting Process Of Converting Energy

From External Sources

1.1.2    Energy Is Everywhere In The Environment

1.1.3    Energy Harvesting

1.1.4    Wireless Sensor Nodes Powered By Batteries

1.2   Zero Power Wireless Sensors

1.2.1    Energy Processors and Solid State Batteries

Enable Zero Power Wireless Sensors

1.3   Energy Harvesting Value

1.3.1    Energy Harvesting Applications

1.3.2    Common Sources of Energy for Harvesting

1.4   Components of an Energy Harvesting System

1.5   Smarter Computing

1.5.1    Energy Harvesting Power Management Solutions

1.6   Energy Harvesting Target Markets

1.7   Smart Buildings / Energy Harvesting

1.7.1    Permanent Power for Wireless Sensors

1.7.2    Electric Grid Energy Harvesting Services For Smart Buildings

1.7.3    Commercial Applications For Advanced Batteries

1.7.4    Challenges in Energy Harvesting System Design

1.7.5    Ultra Capacitors

1.7.6    Fuel Cells

1.8   Transportation Industry Target Market

1.8.1    Transportation Use of Energy Harvesting

1.9   Energy Storage For Grid Stabilization

1.9.1    Local Energy Storage Benefit For Utilities

1.10     Applications Require On-Printed Circuit Board

Battery Power

1.10.1  Thin-film vs. Printed Batteries

1.11     Battery Safety / Potential Hazards

1.12     Thin Film Solid-State Battery Construction

1.13     Battery Is Electrochemical Device

1.14     Battery Depends On Chemical Energy

 

Energy Harvesting Market Shares and Market Forecasts

 

2.    Energy Harvesting: Vibration, Thermovoltaics,

Piezoelectrics Market Shares and Forecasts

2.1   Energy Harvesting Market

2.1.1    Wireless Sensor Nodes

2.1.2    Energy Harvesting Minimization of Power Consumption

2.2   Energy Harvesting Market Shares

2.2.1    Northrop Grumman

2.2.2    EnOcean Equipped Devices

2.2.3    EnOcean-Enabled Wireless Networks

2.2.4    EnOcean-Enabled Wireless Networks Installed In

Over 200,000 Buildings

2.2.5    EnOcean Alliance

2.2.6    Arveni

2.2.7    GE HabiTEQ Systems / EnOcean Energy-

Harvesting Joint Venture

2.2.8    Silicon Laboratories

2.2.9    Perpetua

2.2.10  Perpetuum

2.2.11  MicroGen Systems

2.2.12  KCF Technologies

2.2.13  Alphabet Silicon-Based Technology

2.2.14  Arveni's Microgenerator Transforms Mechanical Energy

2.2.15  Arveni Has Technology Specific To Piezo Energy Harvesting

2.2.16  Boeing

2.2.17  Marlow Industries

2.2.18  Marlow Industries Inc

2.2.19  Cymbet

2.2.20  Infinite Power Solutions –

2.2.21  Micropelt Energy Harvesting:

2.2.22  Dust Networks

2.2.23  Ferro Solutions

2.2.24  IBM Positions To Support Sensor Networks

2.2.25  GE Energy

2.2.26  Tadiran Batteries

2.2.27  GMZ

2.2.28  Cymtox

2.2.29  Ferro Solutions

2.2.30  Polatis Photonics

2.2.31  Rockwell Scientific

2.2.32  Omron Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Based Sensors

2.2.33  Omron Photovoltaic Inverter Technology

2.2.34  Selex Galileo

2.2.35  II-VI Incorporated

2.2.36  Leading Energy Harvesting Market Participants by Technology

2.3   Energy Harvesting Market Forecasts

2.3.1    Smart City Energy Harvesting Shipments Market Forecasts

2.3.2    Transportation Rail and Electric Vehicle

Energy Harvesting Market Forecasts

2.3.3    Smart Building Energy Harvesting Shipments Market Forecasts

2.3.4    Smart Grid Meter and Substation Energy

Harvesting Market Forecasts

2.3.5    Sensor Nodes

2.3.6    Military Use of Energy Sensing

2.3.7    Global Desalination Industry

2.3.8    Energy Harvesting Market Industry Segments,  Units

2.4   Energy Harvesting Pricing

2.4.1    Silicon Labs Energy Harvesting Pricing

2.4.2    EnOcean products

2.4.3    Selected Energy Harvesting Unit Retail Prices

2.4.4    Thin Film Battery: STM, IPS, Cymbet, GS

2.4.5    Thermal EH solutions

2.5   Thin Film and Printed Battery Market Shares, Dollars

2.6   Thin Film And Printed Battery Market Forecasts

2.7   Smarter Computing Depends on Instrumented Devices

2.7.1    IBM The Leader In Smart Computing By A Wide Margin              2-101

2.7.2    Advantages Offered By SOA

2.7.3    SOA As An Architecture

2.7.4    Thin Film Battery Market Driving Forces

2.7.5    Smarter Computing Market Driving Forces

2.7.6    IBM WebSphere Product Set Leverages Thin Film Batteries

2.7.7    Thin Film Batteries Market Shares

2.8   Nanotechnology Providing Next Generation Systems

2.8.1    Nanotechnology Thin Film Batteries

2.8.2    Silver Nanoplates Silicon Strategy Shows Promise

For Batteries

2.8.3    Argonne Scientists Watch Nanoparticles

2.8.4    Thin Film Batteries Use Nanotechnology to Achieve

Combining Better Performance With Lower Cost

2.9   Energy Harvesting Geographical Region Analysis

2.9.1    Geographical Region Analysis

 

 

 

 

 

 

Energy Harvesting Product Description

 

3. Energy Harvesting Product Description

3.1   Energy Harvesting Devices

3.2   Marlow Industries Inc

3.2.1    Marlow Industries Converting Small Degrees Of

 Temperature Difference Into Milliwatts Of Electrical Power

3.3   Micropelt Energy Harvesting:

3.3.1    Micropelt Two Micro Thermogenerators In Series

3.3.2    Micropelt Thermoharvester

3.4   EnOcean

3.4.1    EnOcean ECT 310 - Thermo Energy Harvesting

3.4.2    EnOcean Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Solutions

3.4.3    EnOcean Alliance Energy Harvesting Solutions

3.4.4    EnOcean-Enabled Wireless Networks

3.4.5    EnOcean Alliance

3.5   Arveni

3.5.1    Arveni's Microgenerator Transforms Mechanical Energy

3.6   Boeing

3.7   Ferro Solutions

3.7.1    Ferro Solutions Energy Harvesters

3.7.2    Ferro Solutions Inductive and PME.

3.7.3    Ferro Solutions Piezo-based PME Energy Harvesters

3.7.4    Ferro Solutions

 

3.8   KCF Technologies

3.8.1    KCF Technologies Energy Harvesting for WMD

Detection Systems

3.8.2    KCF Technologies Wireless Accelerometer with

Ultra-Compact Energy Harvesting for Rotorcraft

3.8.3    KCF Technologies Harvester-Powered Wireless

Accelerometers for Extreme Temperature Monitoring in

Fossil Fuel Power Plants

3.8.4    KCF Technologies Wireless Vibration Sensors for

Shipboard Environments with Broadband Energy Harvesting

3.8.5    KCF Technologies Harvester-Powered Wireless

Sensors for Industrial Machine Monitoring and Condition

Based Maintenance

3.8.6    KCF Technologies Piezoelectric and Smart Material Devices

3.8.7    KCF Technologies Compact Narrowband High-Acoustic

 Sound Source for Particle Agglomeration

3.8.8    KCF Technologies Low-Cost Liquid Atomization and

Dispensing with a Miniature Piezoelectric Device

3.8.9    KCF Technologies Extreme Amplitude

Piezoelectric Noise Source for HUMVEE Air Filter Cleaning

3.8.10  KCF Technologies High-Temperature

Piezoelectric Alarm for Personnel Safety Devices

3.8.11  KCF Technologies Micro-Robot Swarms for

Desktop Manufacturing

3.9   Trophos Energy

3.10     Millennial Net Wireless Sensor Network:

3.11     BYD-Developed Fe Battery

3.12     Researchers at MIT

3.13     Linear Technology

3.13.1  Linear Technology Corporation

3.14     ReVolt Technologies

3.14.1  ReVolt Technologies Button Cell Air Electrode

3.14.2  ReVolt Technology Partners With BASF

3.15     Cymbet Energizing Innovation

3.15.1  Cymbet Products

3.15.2  Cymbet Rechargeable EnerChips and Effective Capacity

3.15.3  Cymbet Development Support

3.15.4  Cymbet Solid State Energy Storage for Embedded Energy, Power Back-up and Energy Harvesting

3.15.5  Cymbet Energy Harvesting

3.15.6  Cymbet Zero Power Devices

3.15.7  ComtexCymbet EnerChip™ Thin-Film Batteries

3.15.8  Cymbet's EnerChip and Energy Harvesting Solutions

3.15.9  Cymbet EnerChip Solid State Battery Energy

Harvesting (EH) / TI's LaunchPad Development Kit

3.15.10  Cymbet Corporation

3.15.11  Cymbet’s EnerChip™ EP CBC915,

3.16     Infinite Power Solutions (IPS)—

3.16.1  Infinite Power Solutions High-Volume Production Line for TFBs –

3.16.2  Infinite Power Solutions Solid-State, Rechargeable

Thin-Film Micro-Energy Storage Devices

3.16.3  Infinite Power Solutions IPS THINERGY® MEC Products

3.16.4  Infinite Power Solutions THINERGY MEC

3.16.5  Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. Recharge

From A Regulated 4.10 V Source

3.16.6  Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. SRAM Backup Guidelines

3.16.7  Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. SRAM Backup Power Solution

3.16.8  Infinite Power Solutions Recharging THINERGY

 Micro-Energy Cells

3.16.9  Infinite Power Solutions Charging Methods

3.16.10  Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. THINERGY MECs

3.16.11  MicroGen Systems and Infinite Power Solutions

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)

3.16.12  Maxim Integrated, Infinite Power Solutions IC to

Integrate All Of The Power-Management Functions For

Ambient Energy Harvesting

3.16.13  Maxim Integrated Products (Nasdaq:MXIM)

MAX17710 IC Integrates Power-Management

3.16.14  Maxim / Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS)

THINERGY(R) Solid-State, Rechargeable MEC Battery Products

3.16.15  Maxim introduces MAX17710 PMIC ::

Uniquely enables Energy Harvesting with THINERGY MECs

3.16.16  IPS iTHINERGY ADP

3.16.17  IPS and ITT

3.16.18  Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS)—

Global Leader In Manufacturing Solid-State

3.16.19  Infinite Power Solutions (IPS)

3.17     Schneider Electric Lighting Control Solutions for

Comprehensive Facility Energy Management

3.18     Planar

3.18.1  Planar Energy Devices –

3.18.2  Planar Energy’s Solid State Batteries New Deposition Process

3.18.3  Planar Energy Print Guide to Recent Battery Advances

3.18.4  Planar Lithium Manganese Dioxide Nanotechnology

3.18.5  Planar Energy Devices PowerPlane MXE Module

3.19     IBM Energy Scavenging, Power Scavenging –

3.20     Cubic Global Tracking Solutions

3.21     Perpetuum

3.21.1  Perpetuum PMG Rail: Transportation / Powering

 Wireless Rail Monitoring Solutions

3.21.2  Perpetuum Engineering Evaluation and Development

3.21.3  Perpetuum Condition Monitoring

3.21.4  Perpetuum Condition Monitoring Technology To

 Predict Failure

3.21.5  Perpetuum Holistic View Of Equipment Condition

3.21.6  Perpetuum Need For Greater Accuracy In

Condition Assessment Failure Prediction

3.21.7  Perpetuum PMG FSH Free Standing Harvester

Integrated Perpetual Power Solutions:

3.21.8  Perpetuum Powering Wireless Rail Monitoring Solutions

3.21.9  Perpetuum Machine Vibration/Motion Energy Harvesting

3.21.10  Perpetuum Vibration Energy Harvesting

3.21.11  Perpetuum Vibration Source

3.21.12  Perpetuum Resonant Frequency: Tuning the

Vibration Energy Harvester

3.21.13  Perpetuum Vibration Level: Achieving Maximum

Power Output

3.21.14  Perpetuum Basic Operating Principles Of A

Vibration Energy Harvester

3.22     Microchip Technology Inc

3.23     MicroGen Systems

3.24     MicroStrain

3.25     Nextreme Thermal Solutions

3.26     Patria

3.27     University of Michigan ISSCC

3.27.1  University of Michigan Intra-Ocular Pressure Monitor

(IOPM) Device Ultra-Low Power Management

3.27.2  University of Michigan Intra-Ocular Pressure

Monitor (IOPM) Device EH Wireless Sensor Components

3.27.3  University of Michigan Intra-Ocular Pressure

Monitor (IOPM) Device Building Millimeter Scale

EH-Based Computers

3.27.4  Permanent Power Using Cymbet Solid State

Rechargeable Batteries

3.28     VigilX

3.29     MacSema

3.30     Omron Corp.

3.30.1  Omron Photovoltaic Inverter Technology

3.31     Silicon Labs Solutions For Energy Harvesting Systems

3.31.1  Silicon Labs Energy Harvesting Tipping

Point for Wireless Sensor Applications

3.31.2  Silicon Laboratories Low-Power Optimization

3.31.3  Silicon Labs Solutions For Energy Harvesting Systems

3.31.4  Silicon Labs Minimizing The Amount Of Time

The Radio Is On

3.31.5  Silicon Laboratories Managing Harvested Energy

3.31.6  Silicon Labs Ability To Power Wireless Sensor Nodes

3.31.7  Silicon Labs Powers Wireless Node with

Energy Harvesting

3.32     Modern Water plc / Cymtox Limited

3.32.1  Modern Water plc / Cymtox Limited

3.33     Schneider Electric

3.34     ABB

3.34.1  GMZ

3.35     Kelk

3.36     Alphabet Energy

3.37     Perpetua

3.38     Phonomic Devices

3.39     ARPA-E Awardees $100 Million to Advance

Clean Energy Technologies

 

Energy Harvesting Technology

 

4. Energy Harvesting Technology

4.1   Wireless Sensor Solutions For Use In Buildings And Industrial Installations - Green. Smart. Wireless.

4.1.1    Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Solution

4.1.2    EnOcean Dolphin Interoperable System Architecture

4.2   Nanotechnology Graphene

4.2.1    Nanoscale Semiconductor Materials:

4.2.2    Nanotechnology Nanomaterials

4.3   Components of an Energy Harvesting System

4.4   Piezoelectric Devices

4.4.1    Polymer Film Substrate for Thin Flexible Profile

4.4.2    Comparison Of Battery Performances

4.5   Energy Densities

4.5.1    Lithium-Ion Batteries

4.5.2    Power Scavenging

4.5.3    Temperature Gradients

4.5.4    Human Power

4.5.5    Pressure Variations

4.5.6    Vibrations

4.6   Energy Harvesting Known As Power Harvesting

Or Energy Scavenging

4.6.1    Engine Coatings

4.6.2    Self-Sustaining Materials

4.6.3    Artificial Neural Networks

4.6.4    Cloud Computing Social Networking-

4.7   Fabrication Of High Energy And Power Density

Thin-Film Super-Capacitors

4.8   Silicon Carbide Substrate Market

4.9   Fraunhofer Institute

4.10     Tadiran Batteries

4.11     Perpetua

4.12     ZigBee® Alliance

4.13     ALD Energy Harvesting Modules

4.14     Advanced Cerametrics

 

 

Energy Harvesting Company Profiles

 

5. Energy Harvesting Company Profiles

5.1   ABB

5.1.1    ABB and IO Deliver Direct Current-Powered Data Center Module

5.1.2    ABB / Validus DC Systems DC power infrastructure equipment

5.2   Adaptive Materials Technology - Adaptamat Ltd

5.3   Alphabet Energy

5.3.1    Alphabet Energy Inexpensive Waste Heat Recovery Technology

5.3.2    Alphabet Thermoelectrics

5.4   Arrow Electronics

5.5   American Elements, USA

5.6   Avnet

5.7   Arveni

5.8   BAE Systems

5.8.1    BAE Key Facts

5.8.2    BAE Strategy

5.8.3    BAE Operational Framework

5.8.4    BAE Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

5.8.5    BAE Systems Ant Size Robot

5.8.6    BAE Project Management

5.8.7    BAE Engineering

5.8.8    BAE Personal Robots

5.8.9    BAE Systems Large UGV

5.8.10  BAE Systems Plc (BAES.L) Hired Advisors To

Sell Part Of Its North American Commercial Aerospace Business

5.9   Boeing

5.9.1    Boeing Automated Identification Technology (AIT)

5.9.2    Boeing Structural Health Monitoring

5.9.3    Boeing Aircraft Health Monitoring

5.9.4    Boeing

5.9.5    Boeing 787 Dreamliner

5.9.6    Boeing 787 Dreamliner Performance

5.9.7    Boeing Advanced Technology

5.9.8    Boeing Participation In Commercial Jet Aircraft Market

5.9.9    Boeing Participation In Defense Industry Jet Aircraft Market

5.9.10  Boeing Defense, Space & Security

5.9.11  Boeing Advanced Military Aircraft:

5.9.12  Boeing Military Aircraft

5.9.13  Boeing Continuing Progress

5.9.14  Boeing-iRobot Team Receives New SUGV

Task Order From US Army

5.10     CST

5.11     Cymbet

5.11.1  Cymbet Team:

5.11.2  Cymbet Investors:

5.11.3  Cymbet Investors

5.11.4  Cymbet Partners, Sales and Distribution:

5.11.5  Cymbet Manufacturing:

5.11.6  Cymbet to Open World's Highest Volume

Solid-State Battery Manufacturing Facility

5.11.7  Cymbet Partnering with X-FAB

5.11.8  Cymbet / X-FAB, Inc.

5.11.9  Cymbet Expanding in Minnesota

5.11.10  Cymbet / LEDA

5.11.11  Distribution Agreement EnerChip™ Eco-Friendly

Solid State Batteries

5.11.12  Cymbet EVAL-09 Utilizes Harnessing Ambient Energy

5.11.13  Cymbet Secures $31 Million in Private Financing

5.12     Digi International

5.12.1  Digi International Revenue

5.12.2  Digi International Business Highlights:

5.13     Dust Networks

5.13.1  Dust Networks Self-Powered IPV6 Wireless Sensor Network

5.14     EnOcean GmbH

5.14.1  EnOcean Technology

5.15     Finmeccanica

5.15.1  Finmeccanica  /  SELEX Galileo

5.15.2  SELEX Galileo Inc.

5.15.3  SELEX Galileo Technologies

5.16     Flexible Electronics Concepts

5.17     Ferro Solutions

5.17.1  Ferro Solutions

5.18     Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS

5.19     General Electric Company

5.19.1  GE Energy Wireless Condition Monitoring System /

Perpetuum Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvesting Device

5.19.2  GE HabiTEQ Systems and EnOcean Energy-

Harvesting Technology Joint Venture

5.19.3  General Electric / EnOcean Equipped Devices

Sensors Fit In Ultra-Thin Switches On Glass Panels

5.19.4  GE Smart Energy Technologies

5.20     GMZ

5.21     Honeywell

5.21.1  Honeywell Energy-Harvesting Sensing and Control

5.22     Infinite Power Solutions

5.22.1  Infinite Power Solutions Solid-State, Thin-Film Batteries

5.22.2  Infinite Power Solutions Micro-Energy Storage Devices

5.22.3  Infinite Power Solutions Battery Applications

5.22.4  Infinite Power Solutions And Tokyo Electron Device Global Distribution Agreement

5.22.5  Infinite Power Solutions Raises $20.0m In

Series C Financing

5.23     Inventec

5.24     IO

5.25     ITN Lithium Technology

5.25.1  ITN’s Lithium EC sub-Division Focused On

Development And Commercialization of EC

5.25.2  ITN’s SSLB Division Thin-Film Battery Technology

5.25.3  ITN Lithium Air Battery

5.25.4  ITN Fuel Cell

5.25.5  ITN Thin-film Deposition Systems

5.25.6  ITN Real Time Process Control

5.25.7  ITN Plasmonics

5.26     II-VI incorporated / Marlow Industries

5.26.1  II-VI Incorporated (NASDAQ: IIVI)

5.26.2  II-VI Incorporated / Marlow Infrared And

Near-Infrared Laser Optical Elements

5.26.3  II-VI incorporated / Marlow Markets

5.27     KCF Technologies Inc

5.28     Kelk

5.29     Levant Power

5.30     Micropelt

5.31     Millennial Net

5.31.1  Millennial Net Wireless Sensor Network:

5.31.2  Millennial Net’s MeshScape GO WSN Technology

5.32     Modern Water

5.33     Nature Technology

5.34     Nextreme

5.35     Northrop Grumman

5.35.1  Northrop Grumman Smart Grid

5.35.2  Northrop Grumman

5.35.3  Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC.N) Spinning

Off Or Selling Its Shipbuilding Business

5.35.4  Northrop Grumman Remotec Robots

5.35.5  Northrop Grumman Opens New Facilities for

Design and Manufacture of Unmanned Ground

 Vehicles in Coventry

5.35.6  Northrop Grumman Business Sectors:

5.35.7  Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

5.36     OMRON

5.36.1  Omron Revenue

5.37     Planar Energy Devices –

5.37.1  DOE Selects Planar Energy for Oak Ridge

National Laboratory Collaborative R&D Program to

Advance Next-Generation Battery Development

5.38     Perpetua

5.39     Perpetuum

5.39.1  Perpetuum Alliances

5.40     Phononic Devices

5.41     Polatis Photonics

5.41.1  Polatis Technology and Products

5.42     PS

5.43     ReVolt Technology

5.43.1  Executives of BMW and Gould Join ReVolt’s

Advisory Leadership Team

5.44     Teledyne / Rockwell Scientific

5.45     Severn Water / Modern Water / Cymtox Limited

5.46     Silicon Labs

5.46.1  Silicon Laboratories Energy Harvesting Applications

5.47     Schneider Electric

5.48     Syngenta Sensors UIC

5.49     Texas Instruments  (TXN:NYSE)

5.49.1  Texas Instruments

5.50     Trophos Energy

5.51     University of California, Berkeley

5.52     University of Michigan

5.52.1  University of Michigan's Department of Electrical

Engineering and Computer Science Nano-Thin Sheets Of Metal

5.53     Zarlink Semiconductor AB

5.54     US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research

Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Seed Funding

5.55     Selected Energy Harvesting Market Participants

List of Tables and Figures

Energy Harvesting Executive Summary

Table ES-1

Energy Harvesting And Energy Storage Market Factors

Table ES-2

Energy Harvesting Market Driving Forces

Table ES-3

Energy Harvesting Wireless Network Applications

Figure ES-4

Energy Harvesting Market Shares, Dollars,

First Three Quarters 2011

Figure ES-5

Energy Harvesting Sensor Network Shipments,

Market Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018

Energy Harvesting WinterGreen Research Opinion

Table 1

Challenges In Battery And Energy Harvesting System Design          Opinion -2

Energy Harvesting Market Description and Market Dynamics

Table 1-1

Smarter Planet Sensor Network Systems Functions

Figure 1-2

Energy Harvesting Circuit Board

Figure 1-3

Energy Harvesting on Bear Sensor

Table 1-4

Energy Harvesting Applications

Table 1-5

Common Sources of Energy Harvesting

Table 1-6

Components of an Energy Harvesting System

Figure 1-7

IBM WebSphere Application Server Implements

Smarter Computing

Table 1-8

Energy Harvesting Target Markets

Table 1-9

Principal Features Used To Compare Rechargeable Batteries

Table 1-10

Challenges in Battery and Energy Harvesting System Design

Figure 1-11

BMW’s Mini E Electric Car Powered By A Rechargeable

Lithium-Ion Battery

Table 1-12

Examples of Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Figure 1-13

Typical Structure Of A Thin Film Solid State Battery

Energy Harvesting Market Shares and Market Forecasts

Table 2-1

Energy Harvesting And Energy Storage Market Factors

Table 2-2

Energy Harvesting Market Driving Forces

Table 2-3

Energy Harvesting Wireless Network Applications

Figure 2-4

Energy Harvesting Market Shares, Dollars,

First Three Quarters 2011

Table 2-5

Energy Harvesting Market Shares, Vibration,

Piezoelectric, Thermoelectric, Magnetic, Dollars,

Worldwide, First Three Quarters 2011

Table 2-6

Perpetua Energy Harvesting Applications

Figure 2-7

Perpetuum Markets Served By Industry

Figure 2-8

Perpetuum ROI Addresses The Hidden Costs Of

Under Monitored Assets

Figure 2-9

Perpetuum Estimates Number of BOP Machine

Assets Under Monitored Exceeds 70%

Table 2-10

IBM Positions To Support Sensor Networks

Figure 2-11

IBM Describes Smarter Plant Solutions Impact on IT

Figure 2-12

IBM Strategic Vision for Innovation

Table 2-13

Leading Energy Harvesting Market Participants by Technology

Figure 2-14

Energy Harvesting Sensor Network Shipments, Market

Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018

Figure 2-15

Energy Harvesting Sensor Network Shipments, Market

Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018

Figure 2-16

Smart City Energy Harvesting Shipments Market

Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018

Figure 2-17

Smarter Computing Depends on Instrumented Devices

Figure 2-18

Transportation Rail and Electric Vehicle Energy
Harvesting Market Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018

Figure 2-19

Number and Floor Space of US Commercial Buildings

Figure 2-20

Energy Use Intensity for LEED Certified

Buildings (kBtu per Square Foot)

Figure 2-21

Smart Building Energy Harvesting Shipments

Market Forecasts, Worldwide, Dollars, 2012-2018

Figure 2-22

Contractors And Construction Energy Harvesting

 Shipments Market Forecasts, Worldwide, Dollars, 2012-2018

Figure 2-23

Smart Grid Meter Energy Harvesting Market

Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018

Figure 2-24

Smart Grid Substation Energy Harvesting

Shipments, Market Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012-2018

Figure 2-25

Airline / Space / Defense Industry Energy

Harvesting Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018

Figure 2-26

Border and Perimeter Security Energy Harvesting

Shipments Market Forecasts, Dollars, Worldwide, 2012-2018

Table 2-27

Energy Harvesting Market Industry Segments,

Percent, Worldwide, 2012 -2018

Table 2-28

Energy Harvesting Market Industry Segments,

Percent, Worldwide, 2012 -2018

Figure 2-29

Energy Harvesting Market Industry Segments,

Units, Worldwide, 2012-2018

Table 2-30

Energy Harvesting Market Industry Segments,

Units, Worldwide, 2012-2018

Figure 2-31

Marlow Energy Harvesting Device Price

Figure 2-32

Nextreme Energy Harvesting Modules WPG-1

WRLES PWR GEN 1mW 3.3, 4.1 OR 5V

Figure 2-33

MicroPelt Energy Harvester

Figure 2-34

Thin Film and Printed Battery Market Shares, Dollars,  2010

Table 2-35

Thin Film and Printed Battery Market Shares, Dollars,

Worldwide, 2010 and First Three Quarters 2011

Figure 2-36

Thin Film and Printed Battery Markets Forecasts Dollars,

Worldwide, 2011-2017

Table 2-37

Thin Film and Printed Battery Market Forecasts Dollars,

Worldwide, 2011-2017

Table 2-38

Thin Film and Printed Battery Markets Forecasts Dollars,

Worldwide, 2011-2017

Table 2-39

Thin Film and Printed Battery Market Industry Segments,

Percent, Worldwide, 2011-2017

Figure 2-40

Smarter Computing Depends on Instrumented Devices

Figure 2-41

Smarter Planet Impact on IT

Table 2-42

Advantages Offered by SOA

Table 2-41

Thin Film Battery Market Driving Forces

Table 2-42

Smarter Computing Market Driving Forces

Table 2-43

Thin Film Battery Benefits

Table 2-44

Comparison Of Battery Performance

Figure 2-45

Thin Film Battery Energy Density

Figure 2-46

Silver Nanoplates

Table 2-47

Energy Harvesting Regional Market Segments, Dollars,

First Three Quarters 2011

Table 2-48

Energy Harvesting Regional Market Segments, 2010

Energy Harvesting Product Description

Figure 3-1

Marlow Industries Evergen

Table 3-2

Marlow Industries Evergen Energy Harvesting Solutions

Figure 3-3

Micropelt Thermoharvester

Figure 3-4

EnOcean ECO 100 - Motion Energy Harvesting

Table 3-5

EnOcean Energy Harvesting Motion Converter

Table 3-6

EnOcean Thermo Converter

Table 3-7

EnOcean Energy Converters For Energy Harvesting

Wireless Applications

Figure 3-8

EnOcean-Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 3-9

EnOcean Alliance Energy Harvesting Solutions Advantages

Table 3-10

EnOcean Energy Harvesting Sources

Figure 3-11

EnOcean Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Technology

Figure 3-12

EnOcean Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Devices

Figure 3-13

Arveni Wireless Sensor

Table 3-14

Arveni Micro Generator Features

Table 3-15

Boeing Energy Harvesting Development Programs Functions

Figure 3-16

Broadband Energy Harvester (Boeing )

Figure 3-17

Broadband Energy Harvester (Boeing )

Figure 3-18

Ferro Solutions Wireless Sensor Network

Table 3-19

KCF Technologies Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensors Offered

Figure 3-20

KCF Technologies Smart Rod End for Wireless Monitoring

of Helicopter Rotor Components

Figure 3-21

KCF Technologies Rotor Energy Harvesting Devices

Figure 3-22

KCF Technologies Harvester-Powered Wireless Accelerometers

Table 3-23

KCF Technologies Wireless Vibration Sensors for

Shipboard Environments

Figure 3-24

KCF Technologies Harvester-Powered Wireless

Sensors for Industrial Machine Monitoring

Table 3-25

KCF Technologies Energy Harvesting Devices

Table 3-26

KCF Technologies Piezoelectric Devices

Figure 3-27

KCF Technologies Compact Narrowband High-

Acoustic Sound Source

Figure 3-28

KCF Technologies Liquid Atomization and Dispensing

Figure 3-29

KCF Technologies Extreme Amplitude Piezoelectric

Noise Source for HUMVEE Air Filter Cleaning

Table 3-30

Trophos Energy Marine Applications

Table 3-31

Trophos Energy Land Applications

Figure 3-32

Trophos Energy innovative Marine, Land, and Electrocics

Power Generation Products

Figure 3-33

MIT Energy Harvesting Device Converts Low-Frequency

Vibrations Into Electricity

Table 3-34

Linear Technology Comprehensive Line Of High

Performance Battery

Figure 3-35

ReVolt TechnologieszFab Battery

Table 3-36

ReVolt Button Cell Air Electrode

Table 3-37

ReVolt Technology Partnership With BASF: Target Markets

Table 3-38

Cymbet Solid State Energy Storage Energizing

Innovation Target Markets

Table 3-39

Cymbet Solid State Energy Storage products

Table 3-40

Cymbet EnerChip™ Solid-State Product Line

Table 3-41

Cymbet's EnerChip Benefits

Figure 3-42

Cymbet EnerChip CBC3105-BDC:

Table 3-43

Cymbet EnerChip CBC001-BDC: Target Markets

Table 3-44

Cymbet Energy Harvesting Applications

Table 3-45

Infinite Power Solutions THINERGY® Product Family

Table 3-46

Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. Maxim Energy Management Chips

Table 3-47

Infinite Power Solutions, Inc.  Applications For Energy Harvester

Table 3-48

Infinite Power Solutions Charging Methods

Table 3-49

Wireless Sensor Network Applications

Figure 3-50

Planar Energy’s Solid State Batteries Spraying Materials

Onto A Metal Substrate

Table 3-51

Applications Powered By PMG Rail

Table 3-52

Perpetuum Condition Monitoring Technologies

Table 3-53

Perpetuum Business Benefit To Dominate The

Industrial Maintenance Scene

Figure 3-54

Perpetuum Vibration Energy-Harvesting Wireless

Sensor Node Components And Structure

Figure 3-55

Perpetuum Switch Mode Efficiency

Figure 3-56

Perpetuum Condition Assessment Need

Figure 3-57

Perpetuum Condition Assessment Principle of Operation

Figure 3-58

Perpetuum Vibration Energy Harvesting for Rail Cars

Figure 3-59

Perpetuum Vibration Energy Harvesting for Rail

Wheels and Bearings

Figure 3-60

Perpetuum Temperature Variation Energy Harvesting for

 Rail Wheels and Bearings

Figure 3-61

Perpetuum Temperature Variation and Vibration

Energy Harvesting Wireless Network Solution

Figure 3-62

Perpetuum Vibration Energy Harvesting Solution Benefits

Figure 3-63

Perpetuum Energy Harvesting ROI for Ten Years

Figure 3-64

Perpetuum Energy Harvesting Current Produced

Figure 3-65

Perpetuum Energy Harvesting Power Measurement

Figure 3-66

Perpetuum Energy Harvesting Wireless Monitoring

Figure 3-67

Perpetuum Energy Harvesting Installation

Figure 3-68

Perpetuum Energy Harvesting Innovation Solutions

Figure 3-69

Perpetuum Energy Free Standing Harvesting Development Kit

Figure 3-70

Perpetuum Energy Harvesting Wireless

Monitoring and Automation

Figure 3-71

Perpetuum Energy Harvesting of Under Monitored BOP Assets

Figure 3-72

Perpetuum Power Output Spectrum

Figure 3-73

Perpetuum Vibration Energy Harvester powering the

Wireless Sensor Node

Figure 3-74

Perpetuum Vibration Energy Harvesters

Figure 3-75

Perpetuum Power Solutions for Wireless Monitoring

and Automation

Table 3-76

Perpetuum Vibration Energy Harvester (VEH) Functions

Figure 3-77

Perpetuum Vibration Energy Harvester

Table 3-78

Perpetuum Industrial Markets Served

Figure 3-79

Perpetuum Markets Served By Industry

Figure 3-80

Perpetuum ROI Addresses The Hidden Costs Of

Under Monitored Assets

Figure 3-81

Perpetuum Estimates Number of BOP Machine Assets

Under Monitored Exceeds 70%

Figure 3-82

Perpetuum Assessment of Machine Assets Under Monitored

Table 3-83

MicroGen Systems Leveraging of Factors Converging To

Open Up Opportunity In Energy Harvesting

Table 3-84

MicroGen Systems Energy Harvesting For Battlefield

Figure 3-85

University of Michigan Intra-Ocular Pressure

Monitor (IOPM) Device Wireless Sensor Basic Elements

Table 3-86

Silicon Labs Solutions For Energy Harvesting Applications

Table 3-87

Silicon Labs Solutions For Energy Harvesting Solutions

Table 3-88

Silicon Labs Solutions For Energy Harvesting Systems

Figure 3-89

Silicon Laboratories Wireless Sensor Node Power Cycle

Figure 3-90

Silicon Labs Solutions For Energy Harvesting Systems

Figure 3-91

Schneider Electric Energy Harvesting

Figure 3-92

Perpetua Renewable Energy Source for Wireless Sensors

Figure 3-93

Perpetua Renewable Energy Source Applications

Figure 3-94

Perpetua Energy Harvesting Device

Table 3-95

Perpetua Thermoelectric Technology Key

Differentiating Features

Figure 3-96

Perpetua Technology

Energy Harvesting Technology

Figure 4-1

Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Technology

Figure 4-2

Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Solution

Figure 4-3

EnOcean Dolphin Interoperable System Architecture

Table 4-4

Energy Harvesting Modules Functions

Figure 4-5

Graphene Nanostructure

Figure 4-6

Piezoelectric Devices

Table 4-7

Smarter Computing Market Driving Forces

Table 4-8

Thin Film Battery Benefits

Table 4-9

Comparison Of Battery Performance

Figure 4-10

Thin Film Battery Energy Density

Figure 4-11

Comparison of Power Density of Energy Harvesting Methods/

Figure 4-12

Perpetua Flexible Thermoelectric Film

Figure 4-13

Perpetua Technology

Energy Harvesting Company Profiles

Table 5-1

ABB Product Launches

Figure 5-2

Alphabet Energy Heat To Electricity Examples

Figure 5-3

Arveni Wireless Sensor Block Diagram

Table 5-4

ARVENI's Microgenerators Systems Functions

Figure 5-5

BAE Military Robot in Development

Figure 5-6

Boeing Vulture technology

Table 5-7

Boeing Military Aircraft Key programs

Table 5-8

Boeing Unmanned Airborne Systems:

Table 5-9

Boeing Weapons:

Table 5-10

CST Target Markets

Table 5-11

Selected Enocean Shareholders:

Figure 5-12

Ferro Solutions Energy Harvesters And Sensors

Figure 5-13

Ferro Solutions Energy Harvesters And Sensors Target Markets

Table 5-14

Ferro Solutions Selected Clients

Table 5-15

Ferro Solutions Energy Harvester Uses

Table 5-16

Ferro Solutions FS Energy Harvester Industrial & Process

Automation and Utilities

Table 5-17

Honeywell Energy-Harvesting Sensing and Control

Table 5-18

ITN Technologies

Figure 5-19

ITN Thin Film Battery Technology

Figure 5-20

ITN Battery

Figure 5-21

ITN Thin-Film Deposition Systems

Figure 5-22

ITN’s Thin-Film Deposition Systems

Table 5-23

ITN Thin-Film Deposition Systems Products and Services Offered

Table 5-24

ITN Thin-Film Deposition Systems

Figure 5-25

ITNIYN Fuel Cells

Table 5-26

KCF Technologies Core Technical Focus Areas

Table 5-27

Kelk Recent Orders

Table 5-28

Millennial Net’s MeshScape System Functions

Table 5-29

MeshScape GO Deployment Components:

Omron Revenue

Figure 5-30

Perpetua Renewable Energy Solutions For Wireless Sensors

Figure 5-31

Perpetua Energy Harvesting Product Set

Table 5-32

Perpetua's Thermoelectric Technology Features

Table 5-33

Trophos Energy Harvesting Power Solutions Applications