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Smart Energy POWER SUPPLIES

From a 5G energy and cloud perspective, we need to accelerate the pace of data center deployment,
reducing the energy requirements that cannot increase proportionally to the complexity of a data
center. The complexity of data centers is bound to increase over the years. Scaling energy, therefore, at

a much more efficient pace is an important path. “Our focus is on providing high-efficiency smart power
solutions to reduce consumption, through intelligence and efficiency, and thus enable our customers
to have an impact on emissions — and these are drastic impacts,” said El-Khoury.

“We cannot be blind to the fact that as producers of all these great technologies that enable this
mission, we are not responsible for how we create them. We have to address the sustainability needs
of today and the future. We must lead and manage our operations in a way that is responsible through
abatement and conversion. To achieve our mission, we will be carbon-neutral by 2040. Only then will
we feel proud to provide smart solutions that enable everyone to meet not only their own demand but
The Rise of Wireless
also that of their customers — that is, all of us who are consumers of these technologies.”

Power Networks

By Cesar Johnston, CEO of Energous

Soon, internet-connected devices will outnumber all of Earth’s humans by a ratio of 5:1.

That’s according to analyst firm IDC, which projects a 3× increase in the global IoT ecosystem
between now and 2025, when the number of internet-of-things devices is expected to reach
39.3 billion, up from about 12 billion devices today.

This exceptional growth brings with it both tremendous potential for positive outcomes from IoT
deployments as well as concerns around how to reliably power these billions of devices that are
often located in rugged, hard-to-reach environments and/or away from central power sources.

This challenge stems from one basic fact: Most of the 12 billion–plus IoT devices today are either
powered by batteries — which don’t all lose power at the same time and end up in landfills as
toxic e-waste — or by cumbersome charging cables and cords that bring with them logistical
nightmares, limited flexibility in designs, and hidden costs to IT teams managing large-scale IoT
deployments. For these deployments to truly be effective and successful, we must remove the
unnecessary reliance that many of today’s IoT devices have on wires, power cables, and replaceable
Reference batteries that are not only stunting IoT deployments but gaming our environment.

Welcome to the rise of wireless power networks, an ecosystem of technologies including transmitters
▶ PowerUP Virtual Conference (June 28–30, 2022) and receivers that enable wireless power transmission across any distance for a wide range of

applications for the billions of IoT devices today and the billions more of tomorrow whose power

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