Texas MicroPower, Inc.
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Texas MicroPower Inc. (TMP), formerly known as Texas Piezoelectric Inc., was founded in 2006 based on licensed University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) technology and has been pre-seed funded by Texas Emerging Technology Fund with its first tranche in March 2008. It has ongoing development partnership with world-class materials device development and energy harvesting (EH) systems teams from the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), and has secured additional funds from NSF in July 2008. The company is also collaborating with local industrial partners for commercial EH applications.
TMP’s mission is to develop materials, devices, and circuit and system technologies for commercial products and solutions that will harvest energy from multiple naturally-available sources such as human energy, wind, vibrations, or solar into micro-power transferred ideally into battery-free, isolated and remote electronic devices such as wireless sensors, medical implants or further complement traditional storage for portable electronics.
TMP’s value proposition and business strategy differs from current fragmented EH approaches and is based on addressing all the key factors in the value chain from generation to specific application need which is essential for the successful commercialization and broader based applications. The development strategy is based on significant recent advancement in piezoelectric materials technology complemented with other energy sources, storage and power management for a total solution. This technology will be further developed for highly integrated miniature thin-film structures, EH systems for broad application segments with associated device circuits, and systems design. In the process, we shall leverage the advances in power management and wireless communication working in unison with other traditional generation and storage mechanisms to realize integrated commercializable cost-competitive system solutions with revenue potential from EH IP, material, components, and system sales.
