This charger can power compact IoT devices
Summary
Smaller batteries, such as the rechargeable options in wireless earbuds or fitness trackers, can last for days or weeks but use significantly less voltage to charge. With most wireless chargers designed for phones – and charging at 5 or more volts – this can create a problem that results in battery failure much faster than the manufacturer may have anticipated. Pumping too much energy into your mobile device batteries doesn’t just make your phone uncomfortably warm or your earbuds discharge that much faster. In the manufacturing sector, these devices can act as sensors to monitor equipment health, detect employee proximity to improve workplace safety, or perform a million other simple tasks that can help keep the operation running smoothly. Instead of hard-wiring every IoT device in your home or business into the building’s power grid, low-voltage slim chargers like the one Rohm Superconductors is rolling out can keep everything charged and ready to go.