Welcome to optixtal, inc.
More Power to You!
A custom innovator of supercapacitors, leading efforts to provide alternatives to batteries and extend battery life.
Supercapacitors from Optixtal, Inc.
Our vision for OptiXtal is to create power storage components with the right geometry, flexibility, and electrical properties to sustain products for a long time, making possible the first steps towards a greener world. We offer the smallest form factor in the machining and manufacturing industry, enabling you to use a smaller battery or one with less power. We can custom-build supercapacitors that will fit your space, thus allowing you to expand your battery life without undergoing expensive package redesign. Our supercapacitors are ultra-thin (less than 1 mm thick), flexible, and have twice the capacitance of comparable products for the same footprint, as well as half the leakage current of comparable products.
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TOWARDS A SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET
What is the most dangerous part of a car? The majority opinion is the “nut behind the wheel”. In this case, the trend towards cars that drive themselves (the so-called smart cars) makes immense sense. Think about this: Whether they are smart cars, bridges, and roads that monitor their own health (smart infrastructure), or buildings that reduce energy (smart buildings), all of them require sensors that measure a whole host of things. How are you going to power these soon-to-be trillions of sensors? Obviously, wiring them is not an option, and neither is using batteries. Imagine replacing billions of dead batteries at periodic intervals!
On the other hand, one way is for the power to be self-sustaining, just like the technology that requires its use. A vibration here, a little light there, or a hot/cold interface somewhere is just enough to power the sensor, measure something, and then send the data wirelessly to a receiver or the cloud for further action. Electric vehicle manufacturers are beginning to show an increased sense of enthusiasm as they ponder the idea of charging EVs without needing to plug the car into a device. This is an idea that is not so new to us at Optixtal!
In the same way that cell phones and wireless networks changed the face of communication, we believe that our supercapacitors, coupled with dynamic wireless charging, can revolutionize transportation. What makes our concept even more unique is that we propose using supercapacitors to charge EVs. At the same time, they are in motion, an idea vastly contrary to the one mentioned in the article. In essence, this concept combines technology and imagination to help deliver a lighter, greener, and safer car. At Optixtal, we envision creating power storage components with the correct geometry, flexibility, and electrical properties to sustain sensors for a long time, enabling us to take the first steps towards a green world. More power to you!
Powering the IoT – An Innovator’s Perspective
Nearly every day, we get multiple emails about breaking news, breakthroughs, webinars, or announcements regarding developments in the Internet of Things (IoT). Not all emails use the term IoT, although most do. In fact, Prof. Lee at Stanford goes even further, calling it “The Internet of Everything”. Others use terms such as M2M (machine-to-machine), wearables, and structural health monitoring. As an innovator in what I believe will be the critical component for powering a subset of IoT, I have been asked by many to define what IoT is, where I see it evolving, and our role in it. Therefore, I will attempt to answer the above. So what exactly is IoT
Broadly speaking, IoT is a catchall phrase that includes the ability of devices, machines, and infrastructure (think roads, buildings, and bridges) to measure something (sense), send it to a manager (maybe a machine or a human) to make a decision, and then take a specific action (actuate). In other words, there are four critical steps in a successful IoT platform: sensing, data communication, decision protocol, and actuation. What are good examples of IoT in practice? Sensing that you are running low on milk in your fridge, your garage door did not close properly, your heart rate is 20% higher on today’s jog, etc. Communicating this data (most probably) wirelessly to another unit, either nearby or far away, to a manager for taking action. The manager then makes a decision, deciding to send a text to you to buy milk, send a text to you that the garage door will attempt to close itself, or send a query to your healthcare provider with the latest data. The final step is actuation: powering the circuitry to send the text or turning on the motor circuitry to shut the garage door. The question we think about nearly every day is this: How do we power the IoT?