{"id":246096,"date":"2026-10-29T05:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/no-batteries-no-plugs-scientists-create-a-tiny-sensor-that-powers-itself"},"modified":"2026-10-29T05:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:55:49","slug":"no-batteries-no-plugs-scientists-create-a-tiny-sensor-that-powers-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/no-batteries-no-plugs-scientists-create-a-tiny-sensor-that-powers-itself","title":{"rendered":"No Batteries, No Plugs: Scientists Create a Tiny Sensor That Powers Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Scientists have developed a tiny temperature sensor that harvests energy from magnetic fields near electrical wiring.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Electrical wiring produces weak electromagnetic fields that typically go unnoticed, but researchers have found a way to turn some of that energy into a power source for tiny electronic devices. Scientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-arkansas\/\">University of Arkansas (U of A)<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-michigan\/\">University of Michigan<\/a> have developed a graphene-based energy harvester capable of powering an ultra-low-power temperature sensor without a conventional battery.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype operates using energy collected from its immediate surroundings, consuming power measured in nanowatts, or billionths of a watt. It represents another advance toward the team\u2019s goal of developing autonomous sensors that could function unattended for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed a tiny temperature sensor that harvests energy from magnetic fields near electrical wiring. Electrical wiring produces weak electromagnetic fields that typically go unnoticed, but researchers have found a way to turn some of that energy into a power source for tiny electronic devices. Scientists at the University of Arkansas (U of A) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246096","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}