Everactive Releases First Development Kit, Opening Batteryless IoT to All

SANTA CLARA, CA – Everactive, the maker of category-defining batteryless Internet of Things (IoT) systems, is releasing its first development kit to allow third-party developers to build their own IoT products without the constraints of batteries. The company’s self-powered hardware and managed network are purpose-built to acquire and deliver the dense physical-world data that will usher in an age of hyper-scale IoT. Opening up that technology will allow IoT developers to easily build the scalable, sustainable, and data-rich products long demanded by their customers. 

The development kit includes two of Everactive's patented batteryless IoT devices, each with a comprehensive sensor suite that simultaneously measures temperature, humidity, pressure, and triaxial acceleration. Utilizing a low-light indoor photovoltaic harvester as the sole power source, these devices can measure and wirelessly transmit data every 15 seconds. The ability to wirelessly deliver such robust data exclusively from harvested energy represents a significant breakthrough for designers and engineers whose IoT projects have struggled to scale. The development kit will allow developers to better understand and experiment with the power of energy-harvesting technology for IoT applications.

Everactive ENV+ Eversensors. Batteryless IoT devices powered exclusively & continuously from dim indoor light (size: 50mm x 20mm).

To date, fundamental technology limitations have prevented IoT from reaching its full potential.  Specifically, IoT developers have struggled to achieve widespread adoption due to the continued reliance on batteries and inadequate wireless communication options. The finite power available in batteries and their inevitable replacement cycles force designers to make trade-offs between device lifetime, data quality, and deployment scale. Similarly, existing wireless options have proven suboptimal in balancing data rate, range, and network density.    

“Our core breakthroughs in ultra-low-power wireless systems have overcome both the battery problem and networking issues that have plagued IoT. With that as the foundation, we then built an entire data delivery system specifically designed to manage the massive influx of new real-world data sets only made possible by batteryless. Ultimately, it is that data—and the derived insights—that matters to our developers and their end users.” -Dr. Benton Calhoun, Co-Founder & Co-CTO at Everactive    

Everactive leverages the world’s most energy-efficient semiconductors to continuously operate devices from low levels of micro-renewable harvested energy—all without batteries. Its purpose-built wireless network, Evernet, communicates robust data rates at a long range from high-density sensor networks. Delivering data through a managed network simplifies the activation process and vastly improves the speed at which an engineer can begin to experiment.  

With over 15,000 devices deployed in only a handful of initial applications, Everactive has technically solved and commercially proven how to easily create, manage, and deliver the dense physical-world data streams required to achieve hyperscale IoT. Those applications have helped an array of blue-chip end users such as Anheuser-Busch InBev, Colgate-Palmolive, Kraft-Heinz, Merck, and the United States Air Force achieve operational efficiency and sustainability goals.

Now, third-party developers can reap the benefits of batteryless technology for their own IoT products and services.  The company is currently accepting orders for development kits and will begin shipping in November.  

About Everactive

Everactive helps developers of connected products easily design without the constraints of batteries by providing a hardware toolkit and managed network purpose-built for self-powered devices. Built upon the company’s groundbreaking advances in ultra-low-power circuit design and wireless communication, that toolkit enables developers to build suites of hyperscale Internet of Things applications that continuously analyze an explosion of new data across a wide range of applications and throughout entire environments. Everactive has offices in Santa Clara, CA; Charlottesville, VA; and Ann Arbor, MI. For more information, please visit www.everactive.com.