A  leader in solar energy powering of electronic and mobile devices, and Virtual Extension, a leading wireless mesh networks company, today announced the availability of high-performance Wireless Mesh Networks powered by Solar Energy Harvesting. Such networks are expected to be used and to initiate a whole new range of applications in Internet of Things, smart city, agriculture, smart lighting control, smart water management, environmental monitoring, medical, security and safety industries and many more.

 Virtual Extension VEmesh™ networks, operating in the ISM sub-1GHz frequency bands, are based on synchronized-flooding technology. This technology provides true bi-directional mesh networking with space diversity. It completely eliminates the need for routing, and in turn the need for self-forming, self-healing and human involvement. All VEmesh end-nodes act also as relays, to retransmit data in order to create a mesh modular solution, with no need for dedicated routers. The routers’ elimination means less communication overhead, as well as simpler and less expensive processors, while space diversity eliminates multipath effects and provides no single point of failure.

Another benefit of the new generation Virtual Extension wireless mesh networks is the lower power requirement, thus enabling battery-powered applications to reliably run for many years on a single cell battery. Following the integration with Sol Chip Energy Harvester, this need for battery is now eliminated.

The Sol Chip Everlasting Solar Battery harvests light energy to power billions of individual appliances. Through its innovative IP, Sol Chip’s technology integrates all the components required — in a single battery unit — to harvest and supply sustainable solar/light energy to low-power applications. Sol Chip’s technology utilizes low-cost manufacturing flow, thereby increasing overall efficiency and decreasing design complexity, while reducing cost.