Building · Ambient IoT

Borrowed energy: the interactive lab

Five interactive models with adjustable inputs and notes explaining their limits.

What this explores

A companion to my investigation of battery-free sensing. Follow the system around a tag, change an energy budget, estimate collection area for a lighting load, and ask what a silent shipment sensor can actually tell you.

These models use illustrative values rather than measurements from Wiliot hardware. The shipment scenario cannot establish whether food is safe. I plan to explore AI miniaturization in a separate essay.

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