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.
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
Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI)
As a Materials Expert, Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI) has a strong portfolio of innovative technologies to support and collaborate with the industry, offering frontier-applied research on advanced materials as well as technology transfer for commercialization success.
NAMI, incorporated in 2006, is designated by the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong Government as a Research and Development Center for nanotechnology and advanced materials. NAMI undertakes and provides support for market-driven research in nanotechnology and advanced materials, and strives for commercialization of the technologies to benefit the industry and the society at large, as well as re-industrialization to promote the economic growth and sustainability of Hong Kong.
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