“Total market for energy harvesting devices will rise to over $5 billion
in 2022”
Description
In 2012, IDTechEx research finds that the amount of money spent on energy
harvesters will be more than $0.7Bn, with several hundred developers involved
throughout the value chain. Energy harvesting is the process by which ambient
energy is captured and converted into electricity for small autonomous
devices, such as satellites, laptops and nodes in sensor networks making them
self-sufficient. Although energy harvesting applications reach from vehicles
to the smart grid, the majority of the value this year is in consumer
electronic applications, where energy harvesters have been used for some time.
Energy harvesting, otherwise known as power harvesting or energy scavenging
includes photovoltaics, thermovoltaics, piezoelectrics and electrodynamics,
among other options, which are now being used in a wide variety of
applications. The technology has reached a tipping point, because the
necessary lower power electronics and more efficient energy gathering and
storage are now sufficiently affordable, reliable and longer lived for a huge
number of applications to be practicable.
Global market total value millions of dollars
Source: IDTechEx
Market Segments using Energy Harvesting
From wind-up laptops for Africa, wireless light switches working from the
power of your finger and wireless sensors in oil fields monitoring equipment
power by vibration - these are all in use now with many more applications
emerging.
This report covers the following market segments with detailed ten year
forecasts of each:
Wristwatches
Bicycle dynamo
Laptops, e-books
Mobile phones
Other portable consumer electronics - Calculators, toys, piezo gas
lighters, electronic car keys, electronic apparel etc
Wireless sensor mesh networks
Other Industrial -Mainly buildings, machinery, engines, non-meshed
wireless sensors and actuators
Military and aerospace excluding WSN
Healthcare - Implants, disposable testers and drug delivery etc
Other - Research, animals, farming etc
Consumer market total value by sector
Source: IDTechEx
Energy harvesting by technology type
This year, most of the harvesters used in the above market segments are solar
cells followed by electrodynamos, two relatively mature energy harvesting
technologies. However, many new technologies are now taking some market share
enabling power in areas not possible before. This includes thermoelectrics -
generating power from heat - where organisations such as the Department of
Energy in the US are working with BMW and GM to turn heat waste from engines
and exhaust into power for the vehicle's electrical systems. NASA use
thermoelectrics to power Mars rovers where they work without light, unlike
solar cells. Piezoelectric energy harvesters are also of great interest due to
their small form factor and high efficiency. In 2022, these four energy
harvester types will have near similar market share for industrial sensing
applications. However, even by then solar will continue to dominate for
consumer applications.
For the first time, this unique report looks at the global situation. It
covers the progress of more than 350 organizations in 22 countries and gives
detailed case studies. Market forecasts are provided for everything from
self-sufficient wristwatches to mobile phones that will never need a charger
and light switches and controls that have no wiring and no batteries when
fitted in buildings to wireless sensors power from the environment they are
placed in.
However, there are further mountains to climb in order to achieve self-powered
wireless sensors monitoring forest fires, pollution spillages and even inside
the human body and in the concrete of buildings. These applications will
become commonplace one day. Even devices with maintenance-free life of
hundreds of years can now be envisaged. Meanwhile, bionic man containing
maintenance free, self-powered devices for his lifetime is an objective for
the next few years. IDTechEx find that the total market for energy harvesting
devices, including everything from wristwatches to wireless sensors will rise
to over $5 billion in 2022.
How do these things work? Which technologies have the most potential now and
in the future? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? Which
countries have the most active programs and why? What are the leading
universities, developers, manufacturers and other players up to? What
alliances exist? What are the timelines for success? All these questions and
more are answered in this report.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
1.1. Market forecast 2012-2022, 2032
2. INTRODUCTION
2.1. What is energy harvesting?
2.2. What it is not
2.3. Energy harvesting compared with alternatives
2.4. Power requirements of different devices
2.5. Harvesting options to meet these requirements
2.6. Battery advances fail to keep up - implications
2.7. Some key enablers for the future - printed electronics, smart
substrates, MEMS
2.7.1. Printed and thin film
2.7.2. Smart substrates
2.7.3. MEMS
3. APPLICATIONS AND POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS
3.1. Aerospace and military
3.2. Industrial
3.2.1. Standards - EnOcean Alliance vs ZigBee
3.2.2. Real Time Locating Systems
3.2.3. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
3.2.4. Aircraft, engines, automotive and machinery
3.3. Consumer
3.3.1. Mobile phones, wristwatches, radio, lamps etc
10.3.80. SAT System- und Anlagentechnik Herbert GmbH
10.3.81. Seamless Sensing - United Kingdom
10.3.82. Selmoni - Switzerland
10.3.83. Sensocasa - Germany
10.3.84. Seven Line Control Systems - France
10.3.85. SIFRI, S.L. - Spain
10.3.86. SmartLiving Asia - Hong Kong
10.3.87. Spittler Lichttechnik GmbH - Germany
10.3.88. Spoon2 International Limited - United Kingdom
10.3.89. Steinbeis Transferzentrum fur Embedded Design und Networking
10.3.90. StyliQ - Germany
10.3.91. STZEDN - Germany
10.3.92. Suffice Group - Hong Kong
10.3.93. Tambient
10.3.94. Tambient - United States
10.3.95. Technograph Microcircuits Ltd
10.3.96. Teleprofi-Verbindet - Germany
10.3.97. Thermokon - Danelko Elektronik AB - Sweden
10.3.98. ThermoKon Sensortechnik
10.3.99. t-mac Technologies Limited - United Kingdom
10.3.100. Tridum - United States
10.3.101. TRILUX GmbH & Co. KG - Germany
10.3.102. Unitronic AG Zentrale
10.3.103. Vicos
10.3.104. Vity Technology - Hong Kong
10.3.105. WAGO Kontakttechnik GmbH & Co. KG
10.3.106. WeberHaus - Germany
10.3.107. Web-IT - Germany
10.3.108. WelComm - United States
10.3.109. Wieland Electric GmbH
10.3.110. WIT - France
10.3.111. WM Ocean - Czech Republic
10.3.112. Yongfu - Singapore
10.3.113. Zurich University of Applied Science (ZHAW) - Switzerland
11. MARKET FORECASTS
11.1. Forecasts for energy harvesting markets
11.1.1. Addressable markets and price sensitivity
11.1.2. IDTechEx energy harvesting forecasts 2012-2022, 2032
11.1.3. Timeline for widespread deployment of energy harvesting
11.1.4. Which technologies win?
11.2. Wireless sensor networks 2010-2022
11.3. IDTechEx forecast for 2032
11.4. Bicycle dynamo market
APPENDIX 1: IDTECHEX PUBLICATIONS AND CONSULTANCY
APPENDIX 2: WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
APPENDIX 3: PERMANENT POWER FOR WIRELESS SENSORS - WHITE PAPER FROM CYMBET
TABLES
1.1. Global market for energy harvesting 2012-2022
1.2. Consumer market for energy harvesting 2012-2022
1.3. Industrial, healthcare and other non- consumer markets for energy
harvesting 2012-2022
1.4. Wristwatches
1.5. Bicycle dynamo
1.6. Laptops and e-books
1.7. Mobile phones
1.8. Other portable consumer electronics~
1.9. Wireless sensor mesh networks
1.10. Other Industrial^
1.11. Military and aerospace+ excluding WSN
1.12. Healthcare#
1.13. Other+
1.14. Consumer vs other market value by technology 2022
1.15. Consumer market value in $ million by application and technology 2022
1.16. Non-consumer market in $ million by application and technology in
2022
1.17. Examples of the primary motivation to use energy harvesting by type
of device
1.18. Microsensor power budget
1.19. Power density provided by different forms of energy harvesting
1.20. Some highlights of global effort on energy harvesting
1.21. Some types of energy to harvest with examples of harvesting
technology, applications, developers and suppliers
1.22. Percentage of presentations and programs by energy harvesting
technology showing increasing emphasis on piezoelectric motion harvesting
2008-2009
1.23. Efficiency and potential technology options
1.24. Timeline for widespread deployment of energy harvesting
2.1. Energy harvesting compared with alternatives
5.1. Comparison of pn junction and electrophotochemical photovoltaics.
5.2. The main options for photovoltaics beyond conventional silicon
compared
5.3. CdTe cost advantage
5.4. Efficiency of laminar organic photovoltaics and DSSC
11.1. Some high volume addressable global markets for energy harvesting
for small devices
11.2. Ambient power available for volume markets
11.3. Addressable market for high priced energy harvesting
11.4. Electronic products selling in billions yearly and their pricing
11.5. Global market for energy harvesting 2012-2022
11.6. Consumer market for energy harvesting 2012-2022
11.7. Industrial, healthcare and other non- consumer markets for energy
harvesting 2012-2022
11.8. Wristwatches
11.9. Bicycle dynamo
11.10. Laptops and e-books
11.11. Mobile phones
11.12. Other portable consumer electronics~
11.13. Wireless sensor mesh networks
11.14. Other Industrial^
11.15. Military and aerospace+ excluding WSN
11.16. Healthcare#
11.17. Other+
11.18. Consumer vs other market value by technology 2022
11.19. Consumer market value in $ million by application and technology
2022
11.20. Non-consumer market in $ million by application and technology in
2022
11.21. IDTechEx forecast of market % value share of total photovoltaic
market by technology excluding conventional crystalline silicon 2012-2022
11.22. Timeline for widespread deployment of energy harvesting
11.23. Division of value sales between the technologies in 2021
11.24. Percentage value share of the global market for energy harvesting
across large areas such as vehicles and railway stations (eg regenerative
braking, shock absorbers, exhaust heat) in 2021
11.25. IDTechEx Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) Forecast 2010-2022 with
Real Time Locating Systems RTLS for comparison
11.26. WSN and ZigBee node numbers million 2012, 2022, 2032 and market
drivers
11.27. Average number of nodes per system 2012, 2022, 2032
11.29. WSN node total value $ million 2012, 2022, 2032
11.30. WSN systems and software excluding nodes $ million 2012, 2022, 2032
11.31. Total WSN market value $ million 2012, 2022, 2032
FIGURES
1.1. Global market number million
1.2. Global market unit value dollars
1.3. Global market total value millions of dollars
1.4. Consumer market number million
1.5. Consumer market unit value dollars
1.6. Consumer market total value millions of dollars
1.7. Industrial, healthcare and other non-consumer markets number million
1.8. Industrial, healthcare and other non-consumer markets unit value
dollars
1.9. Industrial, healthcare and other non-consumer markets total value
millions of dollars
1.10. Consumer market number by sector
1.11. Consumer market total value by sector
1.12. Consumer market value by technology 2022
1.13. Non-consumer market value by technology 2022
1.14. Total market value by technology 2022
1.15. Konarka vision of ubiquitous energy harvesting
1.16. Power requirements of small electronic products including Wireless
Sensor Networks (WSN) and GSM mobile phones and the types of battery employed
1.17. Comparison of the power density ranges of different energy
technologies
1.18. The performance of the favourite energy harvesting technologies.
Technologies with no moving parts are shown in red.
1.19. Profiled energy harvesting organisations by continent
1.20. Profiled organisations active in energy harvesting by country,
numbers rounded
1.21. Rapid progress in the capabilities of small electronic devices and
their photovoltaic energy harvesting contrasted with poor progress in
improving the batteries they employ
1.22. Number of cases by type of harvesting as identified in IDTechEx
survey of 200 participants
2.1. Power requirements of small electronic products including Wireless
Sensor Networks (WSN) and the types of battery employed
2.2. Ten year improvement in electronics, photovoltaics and batteries
3.1. Temperature monitoring on high speed trains
3.2. Huge number of potential WSN applications in the SNCF system
3.3. Evolution of a few of the feasible features for e-labels and
e-packaging
4.1. Battery assisted passive RFID label recording time-temperature
profile of food, blood etc in transit
4.2. Smart Dust WSN node concept with thick film battery and solar cells
4.3. New Planar Energy Devices high capacity laminar battery
4.4. World's first thin-film battery with integrated battery management
4.5. THINERGY MEC200 series micro-energy cells
4.6. Flexible battery that charges in one minute
4.7. Comparison of an electrostatic capacitor, an electrolytic capacitor
and an EDLC
4.8. Comparison of an EDLC with an asymmetric supercapacitor sometimes
painfully called a bacitor or supercabattery
5.1. NREL adjudication of efficiencies under standard conditions
5.2. International Space Station
5.3. Number of organisations developing printed and potentially printed
electronics worldwide
5.4. Some candidates for the different photovoltaic requirements
5.5. Spectrolab roadmap for multilayer cells
5.6. DSSC design principle
5.7. HRTEM plane view BF image of germanium quantum dots in titania matrix
5.8. The CIGS flexible photovoltaics of Odersun AG of Germany is used for
energy harvesting to mobile phones on the bag of Bagjack of Germany
5.9. CIGS construction
5.10. The CIGS panels from Global Solar Energy
5.11. Wide web organic photovoltaic production line of Konarka announced
late 2008
5.12. Operating principle of a popular form of organic photovoltaics
5.13. Module stack for photovoltaics
5.14. INL nantennas on film
5.15. Nanowire solar cells left by Canadian researchers and right by
Konarka in the USA
6.1. Power paving
6.2. Microscope image shows the fibers that are part of the microfiber
nanogenerator. The top one is coated with gold
6.3. Schematic shows how pairs of fibers would generate electrical current.
6.4. Piezo eel
6.5. Capacitive biomimetic energy harvesting
6.6. Mide energy harvesting electronics
6.7. Artificial Muscle business plan
6.8. Artificial Muscle's actuator
6.9. MEMS by a dust mite that is less than one millimeter across
6.10. Examples of electrodynamic harvesting
6.11. Heart harvester
7.1. The thermoelectric materials with highest figure of merit
7.2. Operating principle of the Seiko Thermic wristwatch
7.3. The thermoelectric device in the Seiko Thermic watch with 104
elements each measuring 80X80X600 micrometers
9.1. Profiled organisations by continent
9.2. Profiled organisations by country
9.3. Number in sample by intended sector of end use
9.4. Number of cases by type of harvesting
9.5. Transparent photovoltaic film
9.6. Arveni piezoelectric batteryless remote control
9.7. CNSA moon orbiting satellite with solar cells
9.8. Solar powered ESA satellites
9.9. Electrical lanterns, torches etc charged by hand cranking
9.10. Freeplay wind up radio in Africa
9.11. Solar sail
9.12. Light in Africa
9.13. Hi-Tech Wealth's S116 clamshell solar phone
9.14. Nantennas
9.15. Bulk nantennas
9.16. Human sensor networks
9.17. ISRO moon satellite
9.18. JAXA moon project
9.19. "Ibuki" GOSAT greenhouse gas monitoring satellite
9.20. KCF Harvesting Sensor Demonstration Pack
9.21. Flux density of a microgenerator
9.22. 3D drawing of the Pedal Light
9.23. WSN deployment
9.24. Micropelt thermoelectric harvester in action
9.25. Microsemi's ISM RF I
9.26. Z-Star WSN Evaluation Kit Using ZL70250
9.27. Wireless ECG sensor node
9.28. ULP Wireless Accelerometer Reference Design
9.29. ISM band radio in energy harvesting application
9.30. Helicopter vibration harvester
9.31. Bell model 412 helicopter
9.32. Solar-powered wireless G-Link seismic sensor on the Corinth Bridge
in Greece.
9.33. Multiple solar-powered nodes monitor strain and vibration at key
locations on the Goldstar Bridge over the Thames River in New London, Conn
9.34. MicroStrain Wireless sensor and data acquisition system
9.35. Volture vibration harvester
9.36. Another version of Volture
9.37. International Space Station
9.38. Solar panels for the Hubble telescope
9.39. Schematic representations of a PN-couple used as TEC (left) based on
the Peltier effect or TEG (right) based on the Seebeck effect.
9.40. Nextreme thermoelectric generator
9.41. eTEC Module and Die
9.42. Morph concept
9.43. Flexible & Changing Design
9.44. Concept device based on reduce, reuse recycle envisages many forms
of energy harvesting
9.45. Carrying strap provides power to the sensor unit
9.46. An optical image of an electronic device in a complex deformation
mode
9.47. NTT DOCOMO concept phone with energy harvesting
9.48. Pavegen Systems Limited is looking for ways to tap into the energy
of moving crowds
9.49. Heart energy harvesting
9.50. Perpetuum vibration harvester
9.51. PowerFilm literature
9.52. PulseSwitch Systems makes piezoelectric wireless switches that do
not need a battery
9.53. Seiko Thermic wristwatch
9.54. Knee-Mounted Device Generates Electricity While You Walk
9.55. SolarPrint Beta Power management solution
9.56. Power output vs. Lux Level for a-Si andDSSC
9.57. Light Levels in a typical office.
9.58. Tissot Autoquartz
9.59. Heart harvester developed at Southampton University Hospital
9.60. Compromise between power density and energy density
9.61. Thin film batteries with supercapacitors were efficient for energy
storage
9.62. Two other battery formats
9.63. Syngenta sensor
9.64. Trophos BES Power Management & Application Architecture
9.65. Transmitter left and implanted receiver right for inductively
powered implantable dropped foot stimulator for stroke victims
9.66. PicoBeacon, the first fully self-contained wireless transmitter
powered solely by solar energy
9.67. Surveillance bat
9.68. Sensor head on COM-BAT
9.69. A solar bag that is powerful enough to charge a laptop
10.1. Self-powered Wireless Sensor Technology from EnOcean
10.2. Solar powered wireless sensor node
10.3. Sensor monitoring rock net using energy of net movement and solar
cells
11.1. Energy harvesting for small devices, renewable energy replacing
power stations and what comes between.
11.2. Global market number million
11.3. Global market unit value dollars
11.4. Global market total value millions of dollars
11.5. Consumer market number million
11.6. Consumer market unit value dollars
11.7. Consumer market total value millions of dollars
11.8. Industrial, healthcare and other non-consumer markets number million
11.9. Industrial, healthcare and other non-consumer markets unit value
dollars
11.10. Industrial, healthcare and other non-consumer markets total value
millions of dollars
11.11. Consumer market number by sector
11.12. Consumer market total value by sector
11.13. Consumer market value by technology 2022
11.14. Non-consumer market value by technology 2022
11.15. Total market value by technology 2022
11.16. Meter reading nodes number million 2010-2022
11.17. Meter reading nodes unit value dollars 2010-2022
11.18. Meter reading nodes total value dollars 2010-2022
11.19. Other nodes number million 2010-2022
11.20. Other nodes unit value dollars 2010-2022
11.21. Other nodes total value dollars 2010-2022
11.22. Total node value billion dollars 2010-2022
11.23. WSN systems and software excluding nodes billion dollars 2010-2022
11.24. Total WSN market million dollars 2010-2022
11.25. WSN and ZigBee node numbers million 2012, 2022, 2032
11.26. Average number of nodes per system 2012, 2022, 2032
11.27. WSN node price dollars 2012, 2022, 2032
11.28. WSN node total value $ million 2012, 2022, 2032
11.29. WSN systems and software excluding nodes $ million 2012, 2022, 2032
11.30. Total WSN market value $ million 2012, 2022, 2032
11.31. Global bicycle and car production millions
Energy Harvesting and Storage for Electronic Devices 2012-2022: Forecasts, Technologies, Players published by IDTechEx Ltd. in October 1, 2012. This report consists of 411 Pages and the price starts from US $ 3995.
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