WYSIPS : turning surfaces into new smart energy

sunpartnerIs there anyone who hasn’t felt the anxiety or frustration of running out of battery just when you were expecting an important call or take a train with your electronic ticket on your mobile phone? Wysips want to change that.

Sunpartner, an French engineering firm specializing in solar NETs (New Energy Technologies), has developed a revolutionary technology known as Wysips (What You See Is Photovoltaïc Surface), that can transform any surface into an energy-producing medium using natural or artificial light without changing its look.

Using a novel combination of optical and photovoltaic properties, Wysips produced an ultra-thin, transparent, photovoltaic component. The Wysips Crystal component, placed beneath the screen, supplies enough energy to guarantee your phone stays permanently charged. So you will never run out of battery.

The Wysips Crystal component is 90% transparent (measured by industry standards) and is invisible to the naked eye. It has no impact on the phone’s intrinsic qualities: contrast, readability, angle of view or luminosity. Light energy is recovered and transformed into electric power that is directed back into the phone charging circuit, as if it were plugged into the grid or connected to a USB port.

The power generated by the component reaches 2.5 mW/ cm2 in the sunlight (1 sun), providing two to four extra minutes of communication time for 10 minutes of exposure on a 3G network. By the end of 2014, Wysips aims to reduce the exposure time for 1 minute of communication by four (5Mw/cm2). And for products requiring only 60%-70% transparency, it can generate power of up to 10 mW/ cm2.

In august 2013, Sunpartner and TCL Communication, 7th largest manufacturer of smartphones, which designs and markets Alcatel One Touch phones, have announced the signing of a partnership to develop smartphone prototypes powered by solar and artificial light. This project will enable TCL Communication to evaluate the technology in both technical and marketing terms. Sunpartner is now designing prototypes for three global leaders in mobile telephony.

For More Information contact: www.sunpartnergroup.fr