Modern infrastructure increasingly depends on sensing. Roads, railways, and industrial assets are expected to report their condition continuously, yet powering those sensors remains one of the hardest practical problems. Grid connections are expensive, batteries require maintenance, and solar is often unreliable or impractical.
“BitPowerNode began with a simple question: what if the infrastructure itself could power the sensing systems attached to it?”
Every roadway, bridge, and rail corridor constantly dissipates energy through vibration, deformation, and mechanical stress. Individually these losses are small, but they are continuous and unavoidable. Rather than attempting large-scale generation, BitPowerNode explores recovering a small fraction of that wasted energy and using it locally.
The system conditions and stores recovered energy to support low-power sensing and communication, enabling long-lived monitoring without regular battery replacement or permanent grid access. The design philosophy is deliberately pragmatic: energy recovery, not energy creation.
Technically, the platform combines high-efficiency GaN-based power conversion with storage optimised for Sodium-Ion chemistry, favouring robustness, safety, and supply-chain stability over peak energy density. The goal is reliability over decades rather than maximum output in short bursts.
BitPowerNode is still an active development effort, and much of the work focuses on real-world constraints. Energy availability varies by location, installation quality matters, and environmental exposure becomes a primary engineering challenge. Designing for graceful degradation rather than perfect conditions is therefore central to the approach.
We see the first applications not in high-power infrastructure, but in persistent sensing: structural monitoring, traffic analysis, and distributed telemetry in locations where conventional power solutions are difficult to justify. In that sense, BitPowerNode is less an energy device and more an enabling layer. A way to make long-lived infrastructure awareness practical at scale.
BitPowerNode is now moving toward early prototyping and field validation. We are particularly interested in working with infrastructure operators, research partners, and investors who see value in long-lived sensing and resilient edge power. If this problem space resonates, we welcome conversations with organisations interested in helping move the work from design into real-world trials.
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