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Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Networks

West Technology Research Solutions, LLC - 11/1/2009 - 439 Pages - ID: WTT2495136

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This report presents, analyzes, and reviews the intellectual property holdings of companies developing energy harvesting technologies, wireless communications, and sensor technologies optimized for operation using energy harvested in the ambient environment. The largest and most fundamental holdings in this area are owned by EnOcean GmbH and are realized in practice as EnOcean technology. The EnOcean protocol integrates a very energy-efficient wireless networking communication protocol with advanced energy harvesting techniques. EnOcean’s intellectual property management activity began in 2001, coincident with the start of the company. Since then, the company has produced over 40 patents and applications. Three patents were assigned to EnOcean by Siemens AG after the startup spun out of Siemens. Other patents are predominantly authored by Frank Schmidt, the company’s CTO and one of the five founders of EnOcean. The issues surrounding intelectual property protection activities of EnOcean in this market are important to participants in the sector, even those developing product with alternate technology. Using a variety of information sources including company briefings, conference proceedings and public patent sources and filing information, this report reviews EnOcean, EnOcean Technology and the EnOcean Alliance and the scope of EnOcean Energy Harvesting IP holdings. In addition, patent and application holdings of other developers of Energy Harvesting technology are included as part of the analysis.

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