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| 24 | oral presentation, completed |
RF Harvesting for Scattering at 1.8 Volt between Battery-less Transponder and Mobile Telephones This work studies the feasibility of RF (radio frequency) harvesting of electromagnetic energy from intentionally generated RF signals in the 2.4 GHz ISM band as power supply for a battery-less (back-)scattering transponder. Our setup uses two regular, unmodified mobile telephones, one for transmitting RF signals and quasi-continuous Bluetooth (BLE) advertising signals, the other for receiving the scattered signals back-scattered from the transponder. The transponder comprises a harvesting circuit for accumulating energy from the incident RF signals to provide power to a control unit that modulates the incident BLE signal. This modulation applies frequency translation via 4 MHz subcarrier and frequency shift keying for communication such that the scattered signal is detectable by a BLE receiver of the receiving telephone. We compare different implementation technologies for bitstream generation and subcarrier modulation: hardware, microprocessor (MCU) as well as digital and analog designs. Experiments show that the combination of MCU and switchable analog subcarrier generator shows the most promising result with an active power consumption of less than 1.2 mW and an wireless range extension to 4 cm. Thus, the proposed design enables an improved communication between battery-less transponder and mobile telephone, which encourages further endeavors in this direction. |
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IEEE RFID-TA Conference, Aveiro, Portugal 2023 IEEE Publication |
| 23 | project, ongoing |
Comparative Study Concerning Feasibility and Potential Advantages of Different Circuit Implementation Techniques Research Partner: Institute for Microelectronics and Embedded Systems (IMES), Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil, Switzerland | not published yet | |
| 21 | oral presentation, completed |
Harvesting Data Streams for Scattering between Battery-less Transponder and Mobile Telephones WLAN signals provide a continuous data stream coexisting with BLE 5.0 advertising signals. Alternative data transfer protocols and different WLAN transmission frequencies have been studied. Results show that the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) over WLAN provides high duty cycle transmissions at an operational range of approx. 2 cm without interfering the scattering process. |
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WPW 2022 Conference, Bordeaux, France 2022 IEEE Publication |
| 18 | oral presentation, completed |
RF Harvesting at 2.4 GHz for Scattering between Battery-less Transponder and Mobile Telephones WLAN broadcast signals from the transmitting mobile telephone provide an additional source of energy for our battery-less transponder. Particularly, an Android specific form of WLAN tethering shows the most promising potential for our scattering application, which is based on regular, unmodified mobile telephones. |
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IEEE RFID-TA Conference, Delhi, India, 2021 (virtual) IEEE Publication |
| 15 | oral presentation, completed |
Harvesting for Scattering Bluetooth-Signals between Battery-less Transponder and Mobile Telephones A BLE transmitter of a transmitting mobile telephone provids an quasi-continuous RF signal, which is achieved by using the extended advertizing messages and their periodic retransmissions according to the BLE Standard version 5.0. A specifically designed code sequence generates a quasi-continuous wave signal of approx. 2 ms duration, which provides the basis for the transponder’s scattering process. |
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Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC), Seoul, South Korea, 2020 (virtual) IEEE Publication |
| 13 |
oral presentation, completed |
Harvesting for Scattering Modulated RF-Signals Receivable by Mobile Telephones A micro-controller (MCU) of a transponder is operated by using energy of RF harvesting circuit, an external 1 MHz crystal and an internal asynchronous RC oscillator for generating a frequency shift keying modulated subcarrier. The MCU consumes 9.2 mW during active operation. |
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Conference, Wireless Power Week (WPW) London, UK, 2019 IEEE Publication |
| 10 |
poster presentation, completed |
Harvesting for Scattering RF-Signals receivable by Mobile Telephones A battery-less transponder combines RF (radio frequency) harvesting and RF scattering to modulate an incident continuous wave signal such that the scattered signal is receivable by a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) receiver of a regular, unmodified mobile telephone. |
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Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC) Montreal, Canada, 2018 IEEE Publication |
| 07 |
poster presentation, completed |
Energy Harvesting in EM Fields Evaluation of electromagnetic energy and design of a suitable harvesting prototype. The project involved evaluating the potential of energy harvesting in different wireless communication environments, incl. personal cell phones, as well as implementing a harvesting circuit by specifically designing antenna, matching circuit and voltage multiplier. The wirelessly harvested power was sufficient to operate low energy devices such as sensors and microcontrollers (pocket calculator). Project at FHO-HSR (University of Applied Sciences), Rapperswil, Switzerland with idp invent ag as project partner |
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| 05 | Patents and Divisional Application for Sale/License | Transponder tag that is operable by a mobile telephone, portable object, mobile telephone, and corresponding methods Transponder Tag for receiving wireless signals at a frequency of a local wireless network (ISM radioband), configured to use the energy of these signals for transmitting tag information to a mobile telephone via a short-range RFID connection. This is particularly useful for numerous short distance applications, e.g. for obtaining a quick confirmation that all needed personnel belongings (keys, medical box etc.) are "on board" when leaving home/office. |
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| 01 | Patents for Sale/License | Method of operating an RFID-enabled mobile telephone, mobile telephone, remote unit and application program product RFID-enabled Mobile Telephone for quickly and conveniently checking the nearby presence of correspondingly tagged portable objects (keys, medicine box etc.), e.g. before leaving home or office, and a wristwatch for remotely controlling such a telephone |
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