Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas in deal with energy harvester, Midé

PHOENIX, USA: Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet Inc. announced the addition of vibration energy harvesting manufacturer, Midé to its line card. Avnet will offer customers a broad array of Midé energy harvesting products including its integrated Volture Vibration Harvester power supplies, and raw piezoelectric energy harvesters.

Midé’s proprietary materials exploit the piezoelectric effect to scavenge otherwise wasted energy from mechanical vibration to use as an electrical power source. Vibration energy harvesters can supplant traditional batteries, creating permanently powered and maintenance-free devices for use in wireless sensors, process controls, transportation and aerospace applications. Also available to Avnet customers is the Midé Slam Stick Vibration Recorder, an ultra-portable vibration data logger for characterizing vibration sources.

“We are excited to work with Avnet to bring our full line of energy harvesting solutions to market,” said Chris Ludlow, director of engineering at Midé. “Choosing Avnet as a distribution partner was based as much on Avnet’s ability to support our products through their technical, design-chain specialists, as it was the ability to introduce our products to its more than 100,000 customers. We look forward to working together to help bring more products to market.”

“Energy harvesting is a hot topic in the design community,” said Joe Tillison, technology director for Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. “The addition of Midé to Avnet’s line card rounds out our portfolio of energy harvesting transducers and enabling technologies for energy harvesting applications. Together, with the expertise of suppliers like Midé and reference designs from best-in-class IC suppliers, Avnet offers our mutual customers an advantage that helps get products to market faster.”