Energy Harvesting Can Enable 1 Trillion Battery-Free Sensors in the IoT

Wireless IoT sensing devices can be placed on, in, or near people, equipment, infrastructure, and our environment. This gives us new tools to address the most urgent challenges of our 21st century world: from climate change, to ensuring clean energy, safe food, and foremost, caring for the health and well-being of an aging population. However, to achieve this, we need to address the ‘powering the IoT’ gap. That is, solutions need to run on batteries that outlive the IoT devices they power.