16-18 June 2020
ASSIST Center, North Carolina State University

SMA and NCSU are pleased to announce the EnerHarv 2020 international workshop on energy harvesting and micro-power management will held from 16-18 June 2020 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA and hosted by NC State (North Carolina State University). The event will be managed by the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at NCSU.

The mission remains unchanged from the inaugural EnerHarv 2018, to create 'a focal point for a community of experts and users of energy harvesting & related technologies to share knowledge, best practices, roadmaps, experiences and create opportunities for collaboration' primarily in the wireless IoT edge device sector www.EnerHarv.com. EnerHarv 2018 was hailed as a major success indicating a clear need for a workshop of this nature to help build, grow, sustain, guide and inform the 'power IoT ecosystem.' As an exciting part of this announcement, we are pleased to also announce the full EnerHarv 2018 proceedings have now been made free and open to the public and can be found here: http://www.enerharv.com/enerharv-2018-data-repository/.

EnerHarv was set up to help solve the 'trillion sensor challenge' of 2025, recognizing most of the world's IoT devices will require a portable power source such as a battery that needs to outlive the device that it powers. Although energy harvesting plays an important role, powering these devices is not just about energy harvesting (which is not always possible in many operational environments) but also embedding power management technologies that minimize the 'battery drain' and maximise the conversion and storage efficiencies. Furthermore, minimizing the power consumption of sensing, computation, and communication electronics plays a critical role.

EnerHarv 2018 showed the value in bringing a broad range of stakeholders to our ecosystem (e.g. packaging, software, industrial design) and the critical need to bring in end-users across multiple applications (building management, medical technologies, assisted living, environmental, conditional monitoring of equipment, systems, power supplies). These considerations strongly influenced the decision to host the event in the Raleigh/Durham area, where there is a hotbed of industrial and academic activity and a collaborative ecosystem is already in place.

EnerHarv 2018 demonstrated a need for technology and thought leadership in this sector and the potential benefits of emerging technologies, if properly guided and integrated. It cross connects not just suppliers and developers of power electronics components and systems but also demonstrates the power of collaboration when experts from power electronics, ICT and MEMS co-develop standardized, inter-operable and system optimized solutions for real life applications.

Attendees will learn of the many constituents of existing and emerging 'power IoT' solutions and how to apply these in a system-optimized way creating high impact solutions for a broader range of applications. Through networking, attending tutorials, panel sessions, viewing real life demos and participating in discussions, attendees will gain a step function increase in their knowledge and ability to develop/gain access to energy harvesting powered solutions. EnerHarv 2020 will also be supported by (i) CPSS, (ii) the EU EnABLES project,  which is already building an international 'power IoT' community comprising almost 300 academic and industry stakeholders (www.enables-project.eu) and (iii) IEEE PELS, the largest power electronics professional society in the world under the biggest professional organization in the world.

EnerHarv 2020 will be chaired by Prof. Mehmet C. Ozturk, deputy director of the ASSIST Center. Brian Zahnstecher from PowerRox (representing PSMA) shall be co-chair. Technical chairs Mike Hayes from Tyndall and Shad Roundy from the University of Utah shall represent PSMA & ASSIST respectively.

In the next few weeks the EnerHarv 2020 committee will announce exciting keynotes and an outline agenda. Anyone interested in learning more or participating should contact either of the chairs below at www.enerharv.com/contact/.

An opportunity not to be missed for anyone interested in 'powering the internet of things'.

	Provided by
Mehmet Ozturk, NC State (General chair)				Brian Zahnstecher, PowerRox (General co-chair)

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