Long-Life Battery Powers Trolley Trackers

Overview

NAMI has developed an innovative self-powered asset tracker with its long-life extreme temperature battery, providing full coverage and real-time monitoring of baggage trolley locations in the Hong Kong International Airport.

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Commercialisation opportunities
Non-exclusive licensing
Problem addressed

Asset tracking systems require a reliable battery power source to withstand prolonged periods of hot weather in an outdoor environment, which poses challenge to power consumption and power stability.

Innovation
  • NAMI’s tracker is integrated with long-lasting batteries and a weak-light-efficient energy-harvesting solar panel to charge the batteries indoors and outdoors to significantly extend the tracker’s service life to 2-5 years.
Key impact
  • Extreme temperature: can operate from -40°C to 85°C
  • Extended service life: extended significantly to 2 - 5 years
  • Successful trial: proof-of-concept trial completed
  • Scale-up plan: potentially scaled up for use on other baggage trolleys in the airport with the support of Airport Authority Hong Kong
Award
  • Silver Medal at the “2024 Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions”
Application
  • Monitoring locations of baggage trolleys and other properties including dollies, wheelchairs and tensile barriers indoors and outdoors of airports
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) is founded in 2000 by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. As Hong Kong’s largest government-funded research and development centre, ASTRI is a key force and super connector driving innovation and technology advancement in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and the global innovation ecosystem. This role is strengthened through its merger with Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI).

Committed to bringing high impact research from lab to market, ASTRI advances interdisciplinary, market driven R&D that delivers practical innovations for industry and meaningful benefits for society.

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