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About Powercast

Passionate about innovation, dedicated to delivering excellence

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Our Mission

Our mission is to revolutionize the way the world accesses and utilizes power by delivering innovative wireless charging solutions and products.

Powercast is leading the way in transforming the power landscape, creating a world where wireless power solutions are seamlessly integrated into our daily lives. We are at the forefront of sustainability, productivity, and convenience, envisioning a future where every device is charged wirelessly, every task is simplified, and every action leaves a smaller ecological footprint.


Laying the Foundation

In 2003, a small team set out to develop true wireless power solutions that could both eliminate batteries and enable completely untethered devices that do not need wires or charging surfaces. It was clear that long-range wireless power, or power over distance that could remotely charge enabled devices, would be a game changer for many industries and products. The team spent several years refining its wireless charging technology – which transmits a radio frequency (RF) whose energy can be “harvested” to power devices embedded with a small receiver – and entered the market at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), where Powercast’s technology won CNET’s Best of CES for Emerging Technology.

Solving real-world wireless charging challenges since 2007

Powercast has since helped customers solve many remote wireless charging challenges, powering their wireless sensor networks, waterproof designs, reusable smart bands, RFID tags and many other commercial and industrial devices, and in 2017 launched solutions designed to power consumer electronics devices. Along the way, the company has accumulated multiple awards and created significant intellectual property (IP) surrounding RF-based wireless power, including 97 patents worldwide /awards/and 21 patents pending.

How Powercast’s patented technology works

Where enabled devices automatically charge when within range of a transmitter, Powercast’s contactless charging technology provides over-the-air power at a distance to multiple devices – no wires, charging mats or direct line of sight needed. A transmitter sends RF energy to Powercast’s Powerharvester® receiver embedded in a device, which converts it to direct current (DC) to directly power that device or recharge its batteries. Operating across a wide RF power (as low as -20 dBm) and frequency (10MHz to 6GHz) range, the Powerharvester receivers are designed to convert RF to DC with up to 80 percent efficiency.

Two long-range transmitters pair with the Powerharvester receivers to serve different markets. Powercast’s 120-foot-range Powercaster® transmitter was FCC- and ISED-approved in 2010 (FCC ID:  YESTX91501, IC #:  8985A-TX91501) for commercial and industrial applications. Powercast’s smaller PowerSpot® transmitter for consumer electronics can be a standalone charger, or be built into other consumer products that then become “PowerSpots” able to charge multiple enabled devices around them. The goal is for consumers to simply place enabled items for recharging within range of a PowerSpot in their home or public places.

 

Contact us today. We are eager to assist you with Wireless Power, Lifetime Power, and Custom Engineering solutions for your applications.

Our products are available through leading electronics distributors.

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Powercast products and technology are covered by one or more of and other patents pending.  See patent numbers.

 

The following trademarks listed in this site are solely owned by Powercast Corporation:

 

Powercast®, Powerharvester®, Powercaster®, Lifetime Power®, Powerspot®, Wireless Power For A Wireless World , Power Finally Untethered, Power Over Distance, and Vikaura®

 

POWERCAST HISTORY

Learn about our journey and key milestones throughout the years.

2023

Powercast wins (3) CES Innovation Awards for the $5 BOM cost Powerspot X RF transmitter

2022

Powercast ships 15 million PCC110 RF harvester chips in 2 years

2019

World’s first wirelessly rechargeable consumer gaming product: Wireless Charging Grip

2018

Powercast launches first wireless power transmitter

2017

Far-Field FCC & ISED Part 15 Approval for consumer devices

2015

1st Smart Badge design win

2014

1st RFID sensor design win

2013

1st Asset tracking design win

2012

1st Medical design win

2011

Achieved Profitability

2010

Distributors ship first PCC110 Powerharvester Chip

2010

Far-Field FCC & ISED Part 15 Approval (Commercial)

2008

Far-Field FCC Part 18 Approval

2007

Won CNET’s Best Emerging Technology at CES

2006

Delivered 5 watts continuous to a receiver using a phased array (military application)

2003

Founded with the vision of enabling untethered devices powered over the air