Cleanspace to track urban air pollution with a little help from power harvested from radio waves

Madeleine Cuff
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Personal air quality monitor uses ambient energy from wifi and mobile networks to track pollution data

Former British science minister and Labour peer Paul Drayson has this week unveiled a ground-breaking method of harvesting energy from ambient radio waves to power low-energy sensors, beacons, or wearable...

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