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  Extend Remote Sensor Battery Life with Thermal Energy Harvesting &mdash LT Journal
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  Extend Remote Sensor Battery Life with Thermal Energy
  Harvesting
  Dave Salerno Wireless and wired sensor systems are often found in environments rife with ambient energy,
  ideal for powering the sensors themselves. For instance, energy harvesting can significantly
  extend the lifetime of installed batteries, especially when power requirements are low,
  reducing long-term maintenance costs and down time. In spite of these benefits, a number
  of adoption roadblocks persist. The most significant is that ambient energy sources are
  often intermittent, or insufficient to power the sensor system continuously, where primary
  battery power sources are extremely reliable over the course of their rated life. System
  designers may be reluctant to upgrade systems to harvest ambient energy, especially when
  seamless integration is paramount. The LTC3107 aims to change their minds by making it
  easy to seamlessly extend battery life, by adding energy harvesting to existing designs.
  With the LTC3107, a point-of-load energy
  harvester requires little space, just enough
  room for the LTC3107’s 3mm × 3mm
  DFN package and a few external components. By generating an output voltage
  that tracks that of the existing primary
  battery, the LTC3107 can be seamlessly
  adopted to bring the cost-savings of
  free thermal energy harvesting to new
  and existing battery-powered designs.
  The LTC3107, along with a small source
  of thermal energy, can extend battery life, …

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• Power Management > Energy Harvesting

Other Names:

LTC3107EDDPBF, LTC3107EDD PBF