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IOT Offers Sizable Opportunities for Flexible Electronics

CPI, Reelables and Cisco are working on a battery-on-circuit integrated with an ultra-thin IoT device.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

The Internet of Things (IoT) will provide big opportunities for developers and operators of printed flexible electronics in sectors, with estimates of total demand being worth over $10 trillion worldwide by 2025.   But it also poses massive technological challenges in Europe, particularly for the region’s state-funded technology development institutes. They are at the forefront of efforts to transfer advances like IoT from the R&D stages in academia and start-ups to SMEs whose support is...

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