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Wireless Transfer of Energy Alongside Information in Wireless Sensor Networks

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Despite steady improvements over the last few decades, wireless communication networks are still severely constrained by the availability of an energy source. The problem manifests itself in many applications, in particular, wireless sensor networks enabling a plethora of Internet of Things devices, where communications are infrequent and the nodes are often idle; and also small-scale communication networks, whose nodes need to be minuscule limiting the possibilities to incorporate long-term energy peripherals such as batteries. Such applications can achieve optimal energy efficiency using passive (battery-less) receivers that wirelessly receive energy and information at the same time. In this chapter, we describe a set of techniques, introduced in our past work (Javaheri H Wireless Transfer of Energy Alongside Information: From Wireless Sensor Networks to Bio-Enabled Wireless Networks 2012 [37]), (Javaheri, Noubir, ipoint: A platform-independent passive information kiosk for cell phones 2010 [42]), to simultaneously deliver energy alongside information during wireless communications. We present mechanisms to consolidate energy and information transfer in wireless sensor networks. We introduce iPoint, a communication system including a passively powered wireless receiver capable of establishing two-way communication with a commodity smartphone without any hardware modifications. In contrast to traditional RFID tags, iPoint provides high computation and sensing capabilities and most importantly, it does not require specialized reader device to communicate. We prototype and experimentally evaluate our design that includes optimization techniques to ensure efficient delivery of energy and information and novel communication protocols.

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