How about never having to use batteries again?

We’ve seen firsthand how many batteries these devices get through, which got us thinking: batteries kill business cases. If the electricity grid can rely on renewable sources, why can’t IoT-connected devices do the same? Tryst Light Energy solves just that, energy harvesting for the IoT.

As engineers, we needed something we could use ourselves. After researching recent advances in solar technology, we knew we wanted to create a high-efficiency solution that was more durable, cheaper, and smarter than standard batteries. And we’re calling it: Light Energy.

Works from under your desk – Tryst Light Energy

We managed to tick all of these boxes. The result was a ‘Light Energy’ battery. Operating on just 200 lux of light, (about the same amount of light as you’d find under your desk) this ridiculously energy-efficient battery lasts a minimum of 50 years and comes with a power management module that anyone can use.

Field tests have been very successful. Tryst Energy currently has two patents pending and a number of companies are using its tech in different sectors – predictive maintenance is a particularly large growth area. Tryst Energy will continue to evolve as TWTG spin-off company.

Tryst seems to have hit on a problem affecting many people and we’ve been getting lots of attention as a result. Tryst pitched at SXSW in 2016, has presented for the European Energy Union, is part of Roadmap Next Economy’s Prototyping Program, and has had a fair bit of international media coverage. Coverage can be found on The Next Web, BNR (Dutch) and NOS.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 827908.