BROWSING: batteries
‘The end of batteries’ – high-volume OPV-IoT smart factory to open in France
France-based startup Dracula Technologies, offering low-light energy-harvesting solutions for passive (battery-less) LoRaWAN-based IoT connectivity, has confirmed its new smart factory will start “high-volume” production in “early 2024”. The new 2,500 metre-square facility, in Valence in southeastern France, is to be fully automated, with capacity...
IoT’s dirty secret – 78 million IoT batteries dumped every day (by 2025)
The internet of things (IoT), the tech movement supposed to save the planet, is destroying the planet. About 78 million batteries from battery-powered IoT devices will be dumped globally every day by 2025 – if nothing is done about it. This is the shocking...
Apple aims for 100% recycled cobalt in its batteries by 2025
Other goals for Apple include running on 100% renewable electricity generated from solar, wind and other renewable source by 2030
As part of its broader goal of achieving a net zero carbon impact by 2030, Apple announced this week that by 2025, the company plans...
Batteries not included – the only way to make IoT massive, and also green
Last week, Amsterdam-based Nowi, a specialist in energy harvesting tech for integrated circuit (IC) microchips, announced work with narrowband IoT connectivity provider Sigfox to produce IoT modules that extract power from ambient energy sources, instead of from conventional single-use or rechargeable batteries. It has...