First Wireless Sensor Network Utilising Supercapacitor

Supercapacitor is able to provide the required peak power for data transmission in wireless Sensor Network. Batteries have reliability issues and thus, with the introduction supercapacitor in the microgenerator, there would be no maintenance problems related to the system but instead improvement to the energy use and also cost saving. This was made possible with the collaboration between Perpetuum (Southampton, UK) and CAP-XX Limited (Sydney, Australia). Supercapacitor is finding its place in the market more and more these days with the increasing demands for power solution and with the drawbacks with existing battery technologies. As the world looks for more environmental friendly solution, supercapacitor certainly fits the criteria towards saving the earth for the future generation.
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