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SmartMetric Has Developed Powerful Energy Harvesting to Provide Additional Power Options to Its Powered Use Anywhere Biometric Credit Card
SmartMetric Has Developed Powerful Energy Harvesting to Provide Additional Power Options to Its Powered Use Anywhere Biometric Credit Card.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nSmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME): Building on its unique hybrid solid state battery and rapid recharge internal to the card, power management system, SmartMetric has successfully added to its card power system powerful energy harvesting technology. This technology harvests electrical energy emitted from instore contactless card readers used for contactless payments and converts this electrical energy into power that powers the card's internal processor used for the biometric fingerprint reading of the card user's fingerprint.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220711005847/en/Energy harvesting from reader to card (Photo: Business Wire)\nHolding the card within close proximity to the contactless card reader sends radio waves that are converted into an electrical field that is then used to power the instant fingerprint reading of the card holder. Simply speaking, the user simply holds the finger on the card's biometric fingerprint sensor while they hold it over the instore contactless reader which in turn provides the power to the card to perform an instant fingerprint verification that unlocks the card.\n\nThe theoretical harvesting of energy from the ether is something that dates back to the renowned scientist Nikola Tesla. “While our energy harvesting doesn’t extract power from atmospheric vibrations or the globe's magnetic fields, we have been able to convert radio waves into energy that can power our biometric cards' circuits,” said today SmartMetric’s President and CEO, Chaya Hendrick.\n\nThis radio wave energy harvesting, while being an exciting innovation, does have its limitations. The power harvesting from the radio waves emitted from a card reader are not standardized, which poses electrical engineering issues in calibrating our power absorption in relation to the power available from the source card reader radio emissions. Another issue is that the actual power that is able to be absorbed into our biometric card is affected by the time the card is held over the reader. So, a calculation between card reader power emission by the time the card is held in close proximity of the power field comes into calibrating the actual power provided to the SmartMetric biometric card. Add to these variables, another calculation needs to...