Jelaxshan Jehanathan

Student No: 120122394

wireLESS Charging How convenient would it be if we could charge our mobile devices such as tables and mobile phone devices wirelessly avoiding tangled wires and worrying about losing your wires? Life would be much easier, right? Technology has seen many advancement in recent years, and one area which has evolved radically is the wireless communication technology (phones), which are entering our everyday life. However one thing which has not been keeping up with the advancement as rapidly as communication technology, is the implementation of wireless charging into the devices we use every day. The vision most people have with wireless charging is that we are able to drop our phone on a desk after work and have it fully charged when you pick it up on your way out. Yet in recent months some progression has been made in a wireless charging system. One way scientist tried to charge their devices wirelessly is to use electromagnetic radiation. However to accomplish efficient charging of mobile devices over some distance, power loss due electromagnetic wave propagation must be avoided. Correspondingly human exposure levels to the electromagnetic radiation must be kept at a minimum while appropriate power must be delivered to the devices and most important of all it should be suitable for every mobile device and should be of low cost. To combat the above problems a revolutionary way of a wireless charging system based on ultra-wideband retro-reflective beam forming is proposed. The proposed wireless charging method comprises of several miniature antenna elements distributed equally. According to the University of Texas which has developed this method, pilot signals (which are essentially short impulses they receive from mobile phone devices); will construct a focused electromagnetic beam onto the device with the help of the antenna elements. This process is called beam forming. With the help of this process we will be able to focus sufficient power delivery to the mobile devices, while we also keep the power to a minimum and below safety level in all other locations. Consequently, this proposed process achieves extraordinary charging capability and efficiency, due to the reduction of wave being dissipated into the air and also due to little or no interference from other objects, as these electromagnetic beams are concentrated into delivering power to compatible devices only. According to the University of Texas, this wireless charging system may be used for both indoor and outdoor uses in the near future. However to be able to use it both indoors and outdoors multiple base station have to be built into the wireless charging system, which also contains the central station, so that these stations can jointly emit concentrated power beams wirelessly to devices. To conclude beam forming results in delivering focused beams of electromagnetic waves to devices while keeping power levels in all the other locations under safety level, which ensures high efficiency and charging capability and human safety at the same time. To achieve proficient beam forming, the antenna should receive pilot signals from the target mobile device. Thereafter the antenna would analyse the pilot signals magnitude and strength in real time, and once the analysis of these pilot signals is complete the antennas will then transmit a conjugate version of the pilot signal they received, resulting into the conjugate version of the pilot signal to transmit focused electromagnetic beam onto the target device. Since beam forming detects and receives pilot signal from mobile devices it can also be sued to charge multiple portable devices. In the near future this proposed system can be used in all weather conditions and capable of charging several portable devices at the same time and furthermore more this technology is cheap, compact size and weight.

Jelaxshan Jehanathan

Student No: 120122394

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