EventsThis page contains news and events that we believe are of interest to the community. If you wish to contribute, please follow the instructions at the bottom of this page.Upcoming Events28/Mar/2012: Energy Harvesting 2012The Energy Harvesting Network will hold its annual one-day dissemination event on 28th March 2012 in London.15/May/2012 - 16/May/2012: Energy Harvesting & Storage and Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS Europe 2012Learn about the diverse range of energy harvesting and storage technologies, their application and opportunities at IDTechEx's international event in Berlin on 15-16 May.Previous Events02/Dec/2011: 3rd Energy Harvesting Research Theme Workshop - MEMS/NEMS Energy HarvestingThe Network is currently organising the 3rd research theme workshop, concerned with the application of MEMS/NEMS technology to the topic of energy harvesting and in particular explores the scaling effects when reducing these devices in size.15/Nov/2011 - 16/Nov/2011: Energy Harvesting & Storage and WSNs & RTLS USA 2011Powering Consumer Electronics, Sensors, Vehicles & Beyond - Special discounts available for EH Network members Bringing the whole topic together for you at the USA's largest conference and exhibition. At our 2011 event there will be exciting new announcements from world class speakers, extensive end-user insights to sensor needs and a showcase of working demonstrations of energy harvesting in action.29/Sep/2011: Seminar on Power HarvestingThe Knowledge Network at University of Bedfordshire is hosting a Seminar on Energy Harvesting in on 29th September. The talk will focus a novel energy harvesting technique for making fit-and-forget 'green batteries' that is currently being patented. The seminar will also highlight energy harvesting devices made by EnOcean.13/Sep/2011: Energy Harvesting: Watts needed? Creating a new industry in the UKThe ability for electronic devices to power themselves independently, through scavenging energy from their environments, represents an exciting innovation opportunity. We are considering a possible investment in 'Energy Harvesting Technologies' which would stimulate the development of innovative equipment for the harvesting of energy from the environment for use in powering small devices. Our aim is to identify the existing barriers to commercial exploitation and develop investments t...25/Jul/2011 - 27/Jul/2011: Euromech Colloquium on Structural Control and Energy HarvestingThe scope of the colloquium is low-power vibration suppression. This covers topics within the fields of structural control and energy harvesting. For example, the use of active and semi-active devices, such as piezoelectric actuators and magneto-rheological dampers for vibration suppression will be covered. Also, control strategies for shape-changing and harvesting energy from vibration, solar or thermal sources will be topics for discussion. A key theme will be the possibility of providing stru...28/Jun/2011: Nano4Energy 2011 - 'Nano-Enabled Clean Energy'Nano4Energy 2011 is the NanoKTN's highly successful annual showcase for industry and academia of new developments in nano-enabled energy. This year sponsored by Nanofactory, the event will explore materials challenges in renewable energy, new technology developments, and provide networking between technology providers, end users and investors.21/Jun/2011 - 22/Jun/2011: Energy Harvesting & Storage and WSNs & RTLS Europe 2011The whole value chain will be represented at Europe's largest event on the topic of Energy Harvesting. End users and providers will join together to discuss energy harvesters, thin film batteries, supercapacitors, near-zero power electronic circuits and the system opportunities these provide. The event will be held on 21-22 June in Munich, Germany. A 30% discount on the registration fee is available for members of the EH Network.08/Jun/2011: Balancing the Instrumentation Power Budget for Field DeploymentA critical issue limiting the deployment of instruments in the field is managing power budgets. This event brings together experts from a variety of domains including Defence, Automotive, Environmental, Space and academia to analyse energy-related challenges related to the field deployment of instruments and identify novel technologies which could increase the power budget.05/May/2011: Intelligent Energy HarvestingThe Smart Materials Sector of the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network and the Smart Materials and Systems Committee of the IOM3 are offering a one-day workshop that will look at the current challenges for materials in energy harvesting applications.04/May/2011: 2nd Energy Harvesting Research Theme Workshop - Structural MonitoringThe Network's 2nd research theme workshop is on the application of energy harvesting to power the monitoring of structures such as buildings, bridges, tunnels and other fixed infrastructure. The Workshop is by invitation only to ensure a high quality of interaction.19/Apr/2011: Energy Harvesting; Micro Watts to Mega DollarJoin us on April 19th at Stanford school of business to hear panel of exports discussing opportunities in the energy harvesting market06/Apr/2011: Thermoelectric Energy SolutionsThe applications for harvesting or converting heat for power generation or solid state cooling are widespread and this workshop should be of interest to industries such as automotive, construction, energy utilities, and electronic devices. This workshop is organised by the NanoKTN in partnership with Johnson Matthey and Royal Holloway, University of London.29/Mar/2011 - 31/Mar/2011: Powering Wireless Sensor NetworksHanson Wade will be holding a conference on "Powering Wireless Sensor Networks (Learning by example: Energy harvesting and storage for wireless control and monitoring)" in March 2011.10/Feb/2011: Wireless Sensing for Smart BuildingsWireless Sensing for Smart Buildings is to be held on 10 February at the TechnoCentre, Coventry University. It will explore the information requirements of the building community and consider the state of the art, suitability and opportunities for wireless sensor networks.07/Feb/2011: Energy Harvesting 2011The Energy Harvesting Network will hold its first annual one-day dissemination event on 7th February 2011 at the IET, Savoy Place, London. For further information, including how to register, please visit http://eh-network.org/events/dissemination2011.php.30/Nov/2010 - 03/Dec/2010: PowerMEMS 2010The Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS) series of workshops is the premier forum for researchers working on energy harvesting. Technical topics include Energy harvesting for remote sensors and microsystems, Thermoelectric and photovoltaic materials and systems, Piezoelectric, electrostatic and electromagnetic conversion, Energy management and microsystem integration, Nanostructured materials for energy and thermal management, and Biologic...16/Nov/2010 - 17/Nov/2010: Energy Harvesting & Storage and Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS USA 2010The energy harvesting market is on the up. For some time there have been widespread ideas for energy harvesting - many of which are now being realized, such as energy harvesting using fibers in apparel or piezoelectric effects in plastic film. One of the enablers of these applications is that the new electronics can now operate with much lower power. With the accelerating pace of change, IDTechEx forecasts that many of these advances will boost the market for energy harvesting and for WSN (Wirel...09/Nov/2010: 1st Energy Harvesting Research Theme Workshop - Human-Powered ElectronicsThis workshop is designed to help facilitate the definition of a number of new research challenges and to catalyse the creation of multidisciplinary teams to address them. The agenda includes short presentations to get delegates thinking about the challenges of energy harvesting both outside and inside the human body. The facilitated workshop sessions will then debate the specific research challenges to be addressed and the expertise required.13/Oct/2010 - 14/Oct/2010: Wireless Sensor Networks, Energy Harvesting & RFID Asia 2010Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), otherwise known as Ubiquitous Sensor Networks (USN) will be used to automatically monitor building occupancy and climate control, oil and gas pumping, industrial manufacturing control, traffic, hospitals and much more over wide areas in the coming years. Energy Harvesting (energy scavenging) is concerned with converting ambient energy into electricity for small devices. This IDTechEx event, focusing on the technologies, uses, potential users and market forecasts b...28/Sep/2010: Wireless Sensing Demonstrator Showcase 2010WiSIG of the ESP KTN is organising a Demonstrator Showcase in conjunction with the Sensing Technology 2010 Exhibition to provide an opportunity for industry and academia to display technology, platforms, and realistic applications of wireless sensing. The purpose of the event is to raise awareness of the current state of the art and encourage future collaborations among the exhibitors and attendees.27/May/2010: Power Management Technology ConferenceThis one day event organised by the Sensors & Instrumentation KTN and the Electronics KTN aims to explore the design opportunities provided by power management concepts and optimisation strategies that are applicable to the scale of micro-autonomous systems. The event will disseminate the results of a recently conducted survey on power management technologies.26/May/2010 - 27/May/2010: Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe and WSNs & RTLS 2010This is the premier European event dedicated to energy harvesting and wireless sensing and locating technologies incorporating a two-day conference and exhibition, six interactive Masterclasses, tours to local organisations, an Awards Dinner and many networking opportunities.24/Mar/2010 - 25/Mar/2010: Energy Harvesting for Wireless Automation 2010This meeting has a simple objective - to accelerate the adaptation of energy harvesting by connecting product developers, energy harvesting device and component manufacturers and end users. This agenda is designed to identify best practices to overcome limitations and fully exploit the advances of these new technologies. |
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