The Texas Instruments eZ430 - RF2500 - SEH Solar Energy Harvesting Development Tool helps designers create a perpetually powered wireless sensor network based on the ultra-low-power microcontroller (MCU). The MSP430 eZ430 - RF2500 - SEH Solar Energy Harvesting module includes a high efficiency Cymbet solar panel optimized for operating indoors under low-intensity fluorescent lights that provide enough power to run a wireless sensor application with no additional batteries. This TI development kit also has inputs for external energy harvester s and stores additional energy in a pair of Cymbet EnerChip thin-film rechargeable batteries. The eZ430 - RF2500 is used to run the energy harvesting application and is a completed USB-based wireless development tool based around the MSP430 ™ MCU. The TI kit includes a debugging interface that allows for real-time, in-system debugging and programming for the MSP430 and is also the interface to transfer data to a PC from a wireless system.

• Efficient solar energy harvesting module for the eZ430-RF2500
  
• Battery-less operation
  
• Works in low ambient light
  
• 400+ transmissions in dark
  
• Adaptable to any RF network or sensor input
  
• Inputs available for external harvesters (thermal, piezo, 2nd solar panel, etc.)
  
• USB debugging and programming interface with application backchannel to PC
  
• 18 available analog and communications input/output pins
  
• Highly integrated, ultra-low-power MSP430 MCU with 16-MHz performance
  
• Two green and red LEDs for visual feedback
  
• Interruptible push button for user feedback
  

• Two eZ430-RF2500T wireless target boards
  
• One eZ430-RF USB debugging interface
  
• One AAA battery pack with expansion board (batteries included)
  
• One SEH-01 Solar Energy Harvester Board
  
• One MSP430 Development Tool CD containing documentation and development software:
  
• eZ430-RF2500-SEH Demo and Source Code
  
• eZ430-RF2500-SEH Development Tool User's Guide
  
• eZ430-RF2500 Development Tool User's Guide
  
• MSP430x2xx Family User's Guide
  
• Code Composer Essentials v3.1 Core Edition