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Wireless beacon could recharge consumer devicesEE Times report that the wireless battery technology unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show by Powercast LLC is destined for a consumer device being readied for release later this year by Philips Electronics N.V. This product uses the North American licence exempt allocation at 900 MHz, unlike another system reported last year which planned to use the HF bands! The report says: Philips "will be one of our first customers to ship in volume later in 2007," said Keith Kressin, vice president of Powercast (Ligonier, Pa.). The company claims its Powercaster and Powerharvester modules can recharge batteries in consumer devices smaller than a cellphone using RF broadcasts from up to a meter away. Using the 900-MHz band, Powercast transmists RF energy to a receiver module measuring about half the size of a AAA battery. In beta testing of a wireless sensor network at the Pittsburgh zoo, the
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