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Safe Charging for Wireless Power Transfer


Abstract:

As battery-powered mobile devices become more popular and energy hungry, wireless power transfer technology, which allows the power to be transferred from a charger to am...Show More

Abstract:

As battery-powered mobile devices become more popular and energy hungry, wireless power transfer technology, which allows the power to be transferred from a charger to ambient devices wirelessly, receives intensive interests. Existing schemes mainly focus on the power transfer efficiency but overlook the health impairments caused by RF exposure. In this paper, we study the safe charging problem (SCP) of scheduling power chargers so that more energy can be received while no location in the field has electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exceeding a given threshold Rt. We show that SCP is NP-hard and propose a solution, which provably outperforms the optimal solution to SCP with a relaxed EMR threshold (1-ε)Rt. Testbed results based on 8 Powercast TX91501 chargers validate our results. Extensive simulation results show that the gap between our solution and the optimal one is only 6.7% when ε = 0.1, while a naive greedy algorithm is 34.6% below our solution.
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking ( Volume: 25, Issue: 6, December 2017)
Page(s): 3531 - 3544
Date of Publication: 26 September 2017

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I. Introduction

As battery-powered mobile and portable devices become more popular and energy-hungry, energy conservation and scavenging schemes are increasingly important for the device usability. Among all such schemes, wireless power transfer technology [1] attracts intensive research and industry interest due to its convenience in applications. With this technology, energy can be transferred wirelessly from an energy storage to consuming devices such as RFIDs [2], sensors [3], cell phones [4], laptops [5], vehicles [6] and unmanned planes [7]. According to a recent report, the wireless power transfer market is expected to grow to US$17.04 billion in 2020 [8].

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