{"id":19439,"date":"2020-06-19T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=19439"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:56","slug":"odelberg-receives-fellowship-to-help-run-the-world-with-low-power-batteryless-circuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/19\/odelberg-receives-fellowship-to-help-run-the-world-with-low-power-batteryless-circuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Odelberg receives fellowship to help run the world with low-power batteryless circuits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-web-news-files.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odelberg-NDSEG-content.jpeg\" alt=\"(Photo of Trevor Odelberg.)\"\/><figcaption>Trevor Odelberg. (Photo courtesy U-M College of Engineering)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.engin.umich.edu\/2020\/06\/trevor-odelberg-receives-ndseg-fellowship-to-help-run-the-world-with-low-power-batteryless-circuits\/\">Ph.D. student Trevor Odelberg received a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship for his research on low power circuits and devices.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By combining low-power energy circuits with energy harvesting systems, the need for battery replacements (and batteries altogether) can be reduced, enabling new applications in big data and The Internet of Things.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s just physically impossible to replace trillions of batteries, not to mention all the toxic waste that would be produced from having to do that,\u201d Odelberg says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sensing applications particularly benefit from a reduced need for batteries. Low-powered devices can be used to detect and track movement and map building layouts in order to keep people safe in dangerous scenarios. These devices can also power biomedical implants to evaluate drug effectiveness and monitor vital signs, or used in environmental sensors that monitor pollution or track animal migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph.D. student Trevor Odelberg received a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship for his research on low power circuits and devices. By combining low-power energy circuits with energy harvesting systems, the need for battery replacements (and batteries altogether) can be reduced, enabling new applications in big data and The Internet of Things.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s just physically impossible to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/19\/odelberg-receives-fellowship-to-help-run-the-world-with-low-power-batteryless-circuits\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[852],"class_list":["post-19439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-engineering"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odelberg-NDSEG-content.jpg",1158,772,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odelberg-NDSEG-content-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odelberg-NDSEG-content-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odelberg-NDSEG-content-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odelberg-NDSEG-content-700x467.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odelberg-NDSEG-content.jpg",1158,772,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odelberg-NDSEG-content.jpg",1158,772,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odelberg-NDSEG-content-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odelberg-NDSEG-content-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odelberg-NDSEG-content-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odelberg-NDSEG-content-665x443.jpg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Odelberg-NDSEG-content.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Ph.D. student Trevor Odelberg received a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship for his research on low power circuits and devices. By combining low-power energy circuits with energy harvesting systems, the need for battery replacements (and batteries altogether) can be reduced, enabling new applications in big data and The Internet of Things.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s just&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19506,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439\/revisions\/19506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}