Exeger’s Powerfoyle defend permits limitless battery life in growth initiatives utilizing Nordic’s Thingy:91 prototyping platform. Swedish photo voltaic cell expertise firm Exeger has developed an add-on ‘defend’ for Nordic Semiconductor’s Thingy:91 mobile IoT prototyping platform and related growth boards. The defend gives customers with plug-and-play mild power harvesting capabilities for his or her product design undertaking.
The ‘Powerfoyle Defend’ relies on Exeger’s resilient and versatile photovoltaic (PV) cell materials, Powerfoyle, which might ship mild power harvesting of indoor or out of doors mild with out the necessity for direct daylight.
Information-driven energy administration optimisation
Information captured from the defend can be utilized to find out the facility administration profile of the gadget, and for optimising energy administration efficiency based mostly on continuously altering mild circumstances and battery stage. This energy administration profile permits builders utilizing the Nordic Thingy:91 and appropriate growth boards to increase the facility funds of their product and construct a wiser and extra sustainable answer.
Empowering app growth
Exeger additionally gives a Powerfoyle software program growth equipment (SDK) to its prospects and companions, which means they’ll construct native apps to indicate the acquire and drain of their solar-powered gadget beneath various mild circumstances.
“The Powerfoyle Defend is the results of a long run strategic partnership between Nordic and Exeger to deliver sustainable considering to product design, eradicating ‘battery nervousness’, and finally changing the expensive and wasteful want to interchange batteries,” says Thomas Holmberg, regional gross sales director EMEA, Nordic Semiconductor.
Self-sufficient designs with Thingy:91
Relying on the appliance and the power consumption funds the gadget is programmed to attain, the Thingy:91 and Powerfoyle Defend permits designs to be utterly self-sufficient, with no have to be charged by means of standard means or by battery alternative.
“This can be a partnership a few greener and smarter future, and each our firms share an analogous imaginative and prescient with regards to sustainability, energy effectivity, and a related world,” says Oscar Hemberg, chief product integration officer, Exeger. “Nordic was a perfect companion for this initiative combining low energy connectivity with our distinctive Powerfoyle photo voltaic cell expertise and getting it into the palms of builders constructing on the profitable Nordic Thingy platform.”
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