ITEN Named as CES 2024 Best of Innovation Awards Honoree

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The French solid-state battery manufacturer is recognized for its contribution to Sustainability, Eco-Design & Smart Energy with its new tiny ecofriendly rechargeable 250µA.h micro-battery.

LYON, France — I-TEN,SA today announced that it has been named a CES® 2024 Best of Innovation Awards Honoree for its 250µA.h micro-battery This year’s CES Innovation Awards program received a record number of over 3000 submissions. The announcement was made ahead of CES 2024, the world’s most powerful technology event, happening Jan. 9-12 in Las Vegas, NV.

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The CES Innovation Awards program is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in 29 consumer technology product categories. Those with the highest rating receive the “Best of Innovation” distinction. An elite panel of industry expert judges, including members of the media, designers, engineers and more, reviewed submissions based on innovation, engineering and functionality, aesthetic and design.

ITEN are a French company manufacturing solid-state SMD micro-batteries. As a fully integrated device manufacturer, ITEN control the complete value chain from material synthesis up to the packaging and test. ITEN have raised more than 120M$ since the foundation of the company and their technology has been granted more than 300 patents worldwide so far.

The new 250µA.h micro-batteries have a footprint of #4,5 x 3,2 mm and have two more main features:
– they can be recharged quickly (80% in 8 minutes) and simply at constant voltage (like a capacitor);
– they can deliver high power and high peak currents, of more than 30mA over 100ms, meaning a C-Rate of more than 120.

The C-rate is a key performance for batteries used in low power IOT solutions. Such low-power IOT solutions do indeed consume less and less energy on the average but from time-to-time, the power supply must deliver current spikes to power RF transceivers, microcontrollers sensors or actuators for…