Technology Description
“TenXsys is developing a system to deliver a non-invasive means of generating sufficient electrical power from host animals’ motion to enable long-term functioning of telemetry devices.
TenXsys has completed research focused on avian species to prove the feasibility of a non-invasive means of generating sufficient electrical power from host bird’s motion that can be integrated with TenXsys’ already developed animal telemetry devices. Using homing pigeons and captive wood ducks to gather motion data, TenXsys then used in simulations to determine the amount of mechanical energy available for a scavenging device. The simulation, using actual motion data recorded from homing pigeons and wood ducks, showed a range of available energy from 2 mJ up to 11 mJ of total energy. This is sufficient energy to trickle charge a small rechargeable battery, thus proving the feasibility of our energy-scavenging animal telemetry device for avian species. The elimination of, or reduced reliance on, batteries will enable a new generation of small, long-lasting telemetry devices for use in studying threatened, endangered, or poorly understood animal species.”
