(Soc = System on a Chip, NB-Iot = Narrow Band Iot, PMIC = Power Management Integrated Circuit)

Power has proven to be a bottleneck in the adoption of many IoT applications, with battery maintenance or power cabling reducing the ROI of an IoT system significantly.

• Battery life in many use-cases is shorter than the application life, thus requiring maintenance during system usage and thereby greatly increasing IoT total cost of ownership.
• IoT nodes are typically distributed in remote or difficult to access areas, making cables impossible and changing batteries even more expensive.

NOWI’s energy harvesting technology can power virtually any small IoT device (and fit into it) and allows them to run without changing batteries during up to 15 years.

“The (Huawei) Boudica V150 NB-IoT SoC is a market leading IoT communications device integrating modem, radio, power management, application subsystem and dedicated security core in a single chip. With only a few required external components, it enables low system cost and is able to support all of the global NB-IoT frequencies whilst operating direct-from-battery with ultra-low current draw. As such, it is the ideal device to be paired with our breakthrough energy harvesting technology to achieve power autonomy without sacrificing functionality.” 
Simon van der Jagt, CEO NOWI

Full article https://iotbusinessnews.com/2019/06/24/20709-huawei-combines-nb-iot-device-soc-with-nowis-energy-harvesting-pmic-to-enable-new-iot-applications/