{"id":133912,"date":"2022-01-11T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/extreme-low-power-chip-with-energy-harvesting-provides-lifetime-battery-solution-for-remote-controls"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:23:09","slug":"extreme-low-power-chip-with-energy-harvesting-provides-lifetime-battery-solution-for-remote-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/extreme-low-power-chip-with-energy-harvesting-provides-lifetime-battery-solution-for-remote-controls","title":{"rendered":"\u201cExtreme low power\u201d chip with energy harvesting provides lifetime battery solution for remote controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/extreme-low-power-chip-with-energy-harvesting-provides-lifetime-battery-solution-for-remote-controls2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UEI \u201cExtreme Low-Power\u201d chip for Bluetooth, voice remote controls with energy-harvesting in order to provide lifetime battery life.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Most people probably don\u2019t mind changing batteries in remote controls every so often, but it contributes to e-waste especially if you\u2019re not using rechargeable batteries, and I always find it\u2019s pain as I don\u2019t usually have stock, or don\u2019t feel like waiting for several hours to recharge the batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Universal Electronics Inc, or UEI for shorts, claims to have a solution with a family of QuickSet-certified chips using \u201cExtreme Low-Power\u201d, energy-harvesting and \u201chigh-performance technology\u201d that would provide lifetime battery life to Bluetooth, voice remote controls. The main goal is \u201cto help transition the world towards a more sustainable future, by reducing primary battery waste throughout the life of the product, which in turn reduces the cumulative CO2 footprint\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UEI \u201cExtreme Low-Power\u201d chip for Bluetooth, voice remote controls with energy-harvesting in order to provide lifetime battery life. Most people probably don\u2019t mind changing batteries in remote controls every so often, but it contributes to e-waste especially if you\u2019re not using rechargeable batteries, and I always find it\u2019s pain as I don\u2019t usually have stock, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}