{"id":28889,"date":"2015-03-13T10:21:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T09:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=28889"},"modified":"2015-03-13T10:21:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T09:21:36","slug":"enerbee-raises-e2-5-million-motion-powered-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2015\/03\/enerbee-raises-e2-5-million-motion-powered-sensors\/","title":{"rendered":"EnerBee raises \u20ac2.5 Million for their motion-powered sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/revolution-slider-video2.jpg\" alt=\"revolution-slider-video2\" width=\"823\" height=\"398\" \/><br \/>\nPower&#8217;s no joke &#8211; with the rise of the Internet-enabled hardware,\u00a0nearly anything is only a sensor &amp; a network connection away from becoming a connected object &#8211; a tire, a remote control, or door handle &#8211; and yet, for objects without their own power supply, optimizing battery life is critical.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s where <a href=\"http:\/\/enerbee.fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EnerBee<\/a> comes in. The Grenoble-based CEA project just raised \u20ac2.5 Million from Robolution Capital (a robotics\/hardware VC fund), Emertec, from BNP Paribas &amp; Credit Agricole. The company&#8217;s main product: sensors that can be powered indefinitely by minimal\u00a0amounts of\u00a0movement.<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"EnerBee Motion Makes Sense\" width=\"801\" height=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xe2mYHfj3a0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAs seen in their video, this can be anything from the jiggling of a door handle to the\u00a0rotations of a tire on the road.\u00a0Although proprietary, the technology leveraged is similar to that of Pilo, which we met last year when they launched at the <a title=\"[Interview] Pilo Cofounder and CEO Nicolas Toper introduces Pilo, the 100X Better Battery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2014\/07\/31\/interview-pilo-cofounder-ceo-nicolas-toper-introduces-pilo-100x-better-battery\/\">Summer 2014 edition of Paris Founders Event.<\/a><br \/>\nThe opportunities for low-power sensors to be self-sustaining by leveraging existing motion is enormous. Enerbee shows that you don&#8217;t need a lot of power, especially if you&#8217;re not looking for constant real-time updates. This philosophy has been the genesis of SIGFOX as well, with their low-bandwidth, low debit communication network, which has amazing battery life and a growing networking of countries that are enabled.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power&#8217;s no joke &#8211; with the rise of the Internet-enabled hardware,\u00a0nearly anything is only a sensor &amp; a network connection away from becoming a connected object &#8211; a tire, a remote control, or door handle &#8211; and yet, for objects without their own power supply, optimizing battery life is critical. That&#8217;s where EnerBee comes in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":28898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}