EnSO AMES generic building block technologies will be customizable (choice of rechargeable micro battery product family, choice of harvesting technology and power conditioners IP blocks, shapeable and conformable/flexible low profile packaging). As large volume market segments are targeted, EnSO manufacturing challenges will develop high throughput processes that will be versatile enough to produce at the targeted competitive cost customized AMES.
EnSO progress beyond State of the Art are:
Obj1: Provide the end users of EnSO with a “sustainable competitiveness tool box”, which will enable them to determine the balance criteria between cost, use case and value perception. In other words, EnSO will respond to a need (use case) by bringing value (value perception) at the proper price level (cost).
Obj 2: Develop several AMES boards using different types of energy harvestings, smart recharge circuits, rechargeable solid state batteries and power conditioning IC’s. This development platform includes all the test boards needed to develop rapidly a microsystem (Microcontroller, radio IC, Sensor, power conditioner, etc...) and can be built as fast and simple as “a Lego game “.
Obj 3: Go beyond the current state of the art by developing an AMES module and the underlying integration technologies that is ready for industrial manufacturing and use in real end products. It will fully integrated advanced thin and flexible Printed Electronics (PE) AMES modules.
Obj 4: Reach TRL8 qualification of micro batteries that fulfil the requirements of EnSo End Users partners.
Obj 5: Focus development efforts on thermoelectric, photovoltaic and piezoelectric approaches, aiming to demonstrate industrial feasibilities through demonstrator making and cost-effective process development.
Obj 6: Align various key enabling building blocks specifications, in order to serve a maximum of Smart Objects requirements with a minimum set of manufacturing routes. Then, EnSO project will evaluate the AMES volume manufacturing capability, in terms of devices performances (capacity, reliability) as well as industrial performances (testability, yield, throughput and cost).
To achieve this objective, EnSO will combine the advanced industrial relevant capabilities of the pilot lines in the scope of the project: micro battery pilot line, PV pilot line, thermal harvester pilot line, mechanical harvester pilot line, printed substrate pilot line, heterogeneous assembly pilot line.
3 direct key impact areas are foreseen in developing this European eco system:
- Exploitation of new materials and equipment,
- Exploitation of solid state micro batteries, energy harvesting, smart wireless charging technologies and AMES,
- Exploitation of Smart Object in several key application areas (Smart Society (secure authentication wearable and display card, supported by GEMALTO, electronic Seal and meter supervisor, supported by GNF, smart lock, supported by OJMAR, and wearable sensor, supported by EVALAN) , Smart Health (smart eyewear, supported by OPHTIMALIA, hearing aids, supported by GNHEARING, chronic diseases management sensor, supported by Maastricht Instruments and bruxisme treatment splint supported by Maastricht University), Smart Mobility and Smart Production key applications (indoor localisation and navigation support, supported by AED engineering, autonomous sensor nodes, supported by AIRBUS, industrial asset monitoring, supported by EDITAG, autonomous condition monitoring for bearings supported by SKF and people & objects tracking supported by ALPWISE).
