Micropower converters for internet-of-things devices

由于电子电路的小型化，计算、通信和传感功能可以集中到越来越小的元件中，然后无缝集成到我们周围的物体中，这些物体反过来可以变得“智能”，并在广泛的“物联网”（IoT）中相互连接。然而，这些物理对象在可用能量、计算能力和通信带宽方面资源有限。因此，如果我们想要开发可扩展的物联网设备和应用，以实现智能世界的承诺，我们必须特别关注资源效率。

Thanks to the miniaturization of electronic circuits, computing, communication and sensing functions can be concentrated into smaller and smaller elements, and then integrated seamlessly into the objects around us, which in turn can become "smart" and interconnected in a widespread "internet of things" (IoT). However these physical objects have limited resources in terms of available energy, computing power, and communication bandwidth. Therefore, we must pay special attention to resource efficiency, if we want to develop IoT devices and applications that can be scaled up to fulfil the promise of the smart world.