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Texas Instruments Incorporated

Solar energy harvesting kit from TI enables permanently-powered wireless sensor networks

Published in Lab Business Week, February 8th, 2009

As wireless network systems designers look to alternative energy sources, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) announced a solar energy harvesting (SEH) development kit that converts ambient light into power for industrial, transportation, agricultural and commercial applications. The credit card-sized eZ430-RF2500-SEH kit combines Cymbet Corporation's EnerChip(TM) thin-film battery technology with TI's MSP430 microcontrollers (MCU), CC2500 radio frequency (RF) transceivers and the eZ430-RF2500 development tool. Developers can now build self powered solar-based wireless sensor networks, eliminating system batteries, which cost time and money to periodically replace, especially in...

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