Energy harvesting breakthroughs needed to power an IoT future

John Leonard
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Scientists are hard at work

Among the many challenges facing the Internet of Things (IoT) is the problem of power. How to keep millions of tiny devices running without having to replace the batteries when the charge runs out?...

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