洞察

关于如何打造软硬件与无线技术相结合的产品、以及无电池传感的工程笔记。

行业

技术

主题

26 October 2026When Does a Design Change Mean You Have to Test Again?Nobody tells you to retest. A design change matters when it contradicts what your test evidence assumed, and that is the sentence nobody wrote down.19 October 2026Who Signs the Declaration of Conformity for the Radio Inside Your Product?Europe has no modular approval: the declaration of conformity for your product is yours to sign, even when somebody else designed the radio inside.12 October 2026Backup Battery Monitoring: Why You Cannot Put a Battery Inside to Watch a BatteryBackup battery monitoring has a contradiction at its centre: testing the reserve costs the reserve. What a passive reading changes, and when not to bother.5 October 2026From Prototype to Production: What Changes When One Unit Becomes Five HundredThe prototype to production step is not a scaling problem. What changes in test, tolerances, supply and conformity, and the five questions to ask first.28 September 2026RFID Read Point Design: What Decides Whether a Moving Asset Gets ReadRFID read point design decides whether a moving asset gets read. Why the window is time and not distance, what the line can give you, and five questions.21 September 2026Battery-Free BLE Tracking: Why the Ambient Energy Is Never There When You Need ItBattery-free BLE tracking works on average and fails on the day an asset goes missing. Why ambient energy is not a plan, and what to ask before you build.14 September 2026Sealed, Inaccessible, Mission-Critical: Four Questions Aerospace Battery-Free Sensors Have to AnswerYour asset is sealed, inaccessible and mission-critical. Four questions decide aerospace battery-free sensors, and none of them is about access.7 September 2026From Sensor to Work Order: CMMS Integration for Battery-Free DataCMMS integration is where battery-free sensor projects are decided. What a reading needs to carry before it can open, prioritise and close a WO31 August 2026Beyond Temperature: What Custom Battery-Free Sensors Can Actually MeasureCustom battery-free sensors go past temperature: pressure, load cells, pH and e-ink, what each one really costs, and where the honest limit is.24 August 2026Battery-Free Sensor Lifetime: What a Forty-Year Asset Actually DemandsBattery-free sensor lifetime is not battery life with the cell removed. What really ages in a sealed HV asset, and why the access interval sets the spec.17 August 2026Battery-Free Sensor Sampling Rate: What Your Power Budget Actually AllowsA battery-free sensor sampling rate is arithmetic, not a setting. The three inputs, the leakage cliff, and four levers when the spec asks for more.10 August 2026When Splitting Is the Right Call: A Cross-Domain Engineering Case StudyA cross-domain engineering case study: why we split a production test bench between two suppliers, and why the seam decided the whole project.3 August 2026NFC Maintenance Rounds: When to Put Sensors on Your RouteNFC maintenance rounds do not replace the walk, they change what it produces. Three questions decide whether your inspection route is a candidate27 July 2026Embedding Sensors During Manufacturing: RF GuidelinesDesigning a battery-free sensor into your product? The RF, enclosure and end-of-line test decisions OEMs must lock in before the mechanical design freezes.20 July 2026One Protocol or Several? The Roadmap Decision Behind a Battery-Free ProductShould a battery-free product commit to one wireless protocol or plan for several? A roadmap framework, and what adding a protocol later really costs.13 July 2026From Stuck to Scoped: How a Paid Scoping Study De-Risks a Cross-Domain ProjectA paid scoping study turns a stalled cross-domain project into an architecture, a costed plan and an honest go/no-go, before you commit to the build.6 July 2026Condition-Based Maintenance vs Periodic Inspection: The Business Case for UtilitiesCondition-based maintenance vs periodic inspection for HV switchgear: what each really costs, and how to build a business case utilities will actually sign.29 June 2026SF6 Monitoring Without Batteries: Pressure & Humidity in Gas-Insulated EquipmentBattery-free sensors track SF6 density and humidity inside sealed gas-insulated switchgear, no wires through the gas boundary. How it works and why now.22 June 2026Battery-Free Temperature Monitoring for Switchgear: Busbar Hot Spot DetectionBattery-free temperature sensors find busbar hot spots in live switchgear, with no wires and no batteries. How it works, the protocol, the business case.16 June 2026Predictive Monitoring for High-Voltage Equipment: Where Owning the Whole System Is the Only OptionSwitchgear, GIS and transformers are sealed and critical. Monitoring them takes battery-free sensing, and that takes one team owning HW, FW, SW and RF.8 June 2026Why We Build Battery-Free Sensors: The Hardest Proof of Owning the Whole RF/Firmware/Software StackBattery-free sensors are our hardest product and the strongest proof that we own hardware, firmware, software and RF together, and why it matters to you.2 June 2026Does Your Sealed, Inaccessible Asset Actually Need Battery-Free? A Practical FilterA three-question filter to tell whether your monitoring application really needs battery-free sensing, or whether a battery or a wire is simpler, cheaper.25 May 2026When One Vendor Can’t Own It: The Hidden Cost of Splitting a HW/FW/SW + Wireless ProjectWhat happens when a project that needs hardware, firmware, software and wireless together is split across four specialists, and the risk nobody budgets for.18 May 2026SENSEID SDK: Building Custom Applications in .NET and PythonThe SENSEID SDK is a starting point for battery-free sensor applications in .NET and Python. What it covers, what it leaves to you, and when you need more.11 May 2026SenseNFC Evaluation Guide: Tap Your Phone to Read a Battery‑Free SensorThe SenseNFC evaluation board: a battery-free humidity and temperature sensor powered and read by your phone's NFC. No reader, no gateway, no batteries.4 May 2026SenseBLE Evaluation Guide: BLE Burst Tags — Same Sensors, Different InfrastructureThe SenseBLE evaluation boards: battery-free sensor tags that send BLE advertising bursts. Same sensors as SenseID, cheaper infrastructure.28 April 2026SenseID Evaluation Guide: EPC C1G2 Tags for Temperature, Humidity, Acceleration & MoreThe SenseID evaluation boards: five battery-free EPC C1G2 sensor tags for temperature, humidity, motion, magnetic field and contact, on any RFID reader.21 April 2026Getting Started: Your First Battery‑Free Measurement with KL‑OSIRISA step-by-step guide to your first battery-free sensor measurement with KL-OSIRIS, our free software: connect a reader, place a tag, see live data.14 April 2026The Economics of Battery‑Free: RFID Reader Cost vs RF TX + BLE RXWhy a UHF RFID reader costs more than an RF transmitter plus BLE gateways, when each one makes sense, and how to think about total cost of ownership.7 April 2026Choosing Your Protocol: EPC C1G2 vs BLE vs NFC for Battery‑Free SensingHow to choose between EPC C1G2, BLE and NFC for battery-free sensors: a practical framework based on your infrastructure, cost structure and use case.31 March 2026One Sensor, Three Protocols: How SenseID, SenseBLE and SenseNFC Share the Same Sensing CoreSenseID, SenseBLE and SenseNFC use the same battery-free sensors. What changes is the communication protocol and the infrastructure you need. How to choose.24 March 2026Warehouse Sensing Without Batteries: Weight, ID & Environment with Any ProtocolBattery-free sensors for warehouse weight, ID and environmental monitoring. Choose EPC C1G2 or BLE by the infrastructure you have: the sensors are the same.17 March 2026Agri 4.0: Soil & Irrigation with RFID/BLE + Occasional NFC CheckA hybrid Agri 4.0 playbook: battery-free RFID at powered touchpoints, BLE for row-level trends and NFC spot checks, with cell design and acceptance tests.10 March 2026Automotive: Can TPMS Go Battery‑Free with RFID/NFC Service Modes?In-motion TPMS stays battery-powered. Battery-free works for tire ID and service-time sensing with RFID and NFC. What is feasible today, and what it takes.3 March 2026Cold Chain Without Batteries: RFID at Scale, BLE in Blind SpotsBattery-free cold chain monitoring on site, with UHF RFID and BLE touchpoints in rooms, docks and portals. In transit, use battery data loggers.24 February 2026Decoding Range Specs: RFID Read Range vs BLE CoverageRFID read range and BLE coverage are not the same thing. How to turn spec-sheet range claims into real deployments, and when hybrid RFID and BLE wins.17 February 2026DCIM Reinvented: Battery‑Free Sensors via RFID & BLE/WiFi GatewaysInstrument racks, doors and aisles with battery-free RFID sensor tags and BLE or WiFi gateways: less cabling, no battery swaps, clean data into your DCIM.10 February 2026Inside a Battery‑Free Sensor: Power Path, Storage, and Duty CyclingBattery-free sensor design: the power path, storage sizing and duty cycling, plus UHF RFID, BLE burst and NFC tap-to-measure patterns that work in practice.3 February 2026The Rise of Zero‑Maintenance Sensors: A Game Changer for IndustryZero-maintenance sensing is a strategy, not one technology: battery-free where a reader reaches, batteries for autonomous updates, wires for real time.27 January 2026Why RF Energy Harvesting Beats “Natural” Sources for Reliable IoT SensorsWhy RF energy harvesting from a RAIN RFID reader beats indoor light and vibration when you need a reliable, on-demand measurement from an industrial sensor.16 December 2025EPC Gen2 + Sensor Integration: Two Standards‑Compliant Paths (EPC‑embedded vs. User Memory)Two standards-compliant ways to carry sensor data over EPC Gen2: embedded in the EPC or read from User memory. How we design both, and when each one fits.10 December 2025What “Battery‑Free” Really Means in IoT — Clearing the ConfusionBattery-free does not mean no energy. The sensor harvests energy on demand, often from sub-1 GHz RF, stores it briefly, measures and sends the data back.2 December 2025Automating with Insight: Battery-Free Switch Monitors for Smarter ProcessesKnow whether a switch, interlock or lock is open or closed without wires or batteries: battery-free RFID switch monitors that replace manual checks.26 November 2025Top 5 Energy Harvesting Techniques for IoT DevicesSolar, thermoelectric, piezoelectric, RF and kinetic: the five main energy harvesting techniques for IoT devices, and how each one works.18 November 2025Smarter Irrigation: Saving Water with Batteryless RFID Soil SensorsBatteryless RFID soil sensors measure moisture, temperature and EC across the field, so irrigation delivers water only where and when the soil needs it.11 November 2025Smarter Together: How Hybrid Technologies Strengthen Wireless Sensor NetworksNo single technology fits every IoT network. How hybrid architectures combine RFID wake-up, RF energy and Zigbee data into stronger sensor networks.4 November 2025Designing RFID Systems with Sensor Tags: What You Need to KnowRFID sensor tags are not standard ID tags. What changes in energy, timing and command sequence when an RFID system reads sensor data instead of IDs only.28 October 2025Smarter Cooling: Batteryless Thermal Monitoring for Data CentersBatteryless RFID temperature tags on every rack show where the heat is, so data center operators can cut cooling energy without risking hot spots.21 October 2025Keeping Rotors Cool: Battery-Free Sensors for Smarter MachinesMeasuring temperature on the spinning rotor of electric motors and generators, where wires cannot reach, with battery-free sensors read without contact.14 October 2025Kliskatek SenseID: Battery-Free Sensor Tags That Go Beyond IdentificationSenseID battery-free tags answer a standard UHF RFID inventory with their ID and their sensor data, so an RFID system can sense, not just identify.7 October 2025Acting on Data: Batteryless RFID Relays for Smart ControlHarvested RF energy can act, not just sense: a batteryless RFID relay switches a low-power load on a reader's command and keeps its state afterwards.30 September 2025Energy Harvesting: Powering Wireless Sensors Without BatteriesHow energy harvesting powers wireless sensors without batteries, and why we focus on RF: it is the energy you can guarantee, even in dark, closed spaces.24 September 2025Designing Battery-Free Wireless Sensors: Challenges and SolutionsUltra-low power, variable energy, timing, power budget and size: the five challenges of designing battery-free wireless sensors, and how to address them.16 September 2025Resilience by Design: How Batteryless Sensors Can Accelerate Disaster RecoveryEmbedded batteryless sensors can report beam deformation, water ingress and tilt after a disaster, so damage is found without waiting for an inspection.10 September 2025Exploring the Applications of Battery-Free Sensing in Industrial ApplicationsBattery-free sensing in industrial settings: condition monitoring, environmental monitoring and asset tracking, with the benefits and challenges of each.29 November 2024Energy-Limited Systems vs. Power-Limited Systems: A Comparative InsightEnergy-limited and power-limited systems hit different limits. The difference, and why it matters when you design battery-free, energy harvesting sensors.8 October 2024Welcome to Our Blog: Exploring the Future of Wireless and Battery-Free SensingThe Kliskatek blog on wireless and battery-free sensing: energy harvesting, sensor design, applications and practical guides from the team that builds them.