Wireless Power Hotspot that Charges All of Your Devices
Each year, consumers carry an increasing number of gadgets on their person: mobile phones, tablets, smartwatches, etc. As a result, users must remember to recharge each device, every day. Wireless charging promises to free users from this burden, allowing devices to remain permanently unplugged. Tod...
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| author | Shi, Lixin Katabi, Dina Kabelac, Zachary E. Perreault, David J. |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Shi, Lixin Katabi, Dina Kabelac, Zachary E. Perreault, David J. |
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| description | Each year, consumers carry an increasing number of gadgets on their person: mobile phones, tablets, smartwatches, etc. As a result, users must remember to recharge each device, every day. Wireless charging promises to free users from this burden, allowing devices to remain permanently unplugged. Today's wireless charging, however, is either limited to a single device, or is highly cumbersome, requiring the user to remove all of her wearable and handheld gadgets and place them on a charging pad. This paper introduces MultiSpot, a new wireless charging technology that can charge multiple devices, even as the user is wearing them or carrying them in her pocket. A MultiSpot charger acts as an access point for wireless power. When a user enters the vicinity of the MultiSpot charger, all of her gadgets start to charge automatically. We have prototyped MultiSpot and evaluated it using off-the-shelf mobile phones, smartwatches, and tablets. Our results show that MultiSpot can charge 6 devices at distances of up to 50cm. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/991102022-09-27T21:06:50Z Wireless Power Hotspot that Charges All of Your Devices Shi, Lixin Katabi, Dina Kabelac, Zachary E. Perreault, David J. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Perreault, David J. Shi, Lixin Kabelac, Zachary E. Katabi, Dina Perreault, David J. Each year, consumers carry an increasing number of gadgets on their person: mobile phones, tablets, smartwatches, etc. As a result, users must remember to recharge each device, every day. Wireless charging promises to free users from this burden, allowing devices to remain permanently unplugged. Today's wireless charging, however, is either limited to a single device, or is highly cumbersome, requiring the user to remove all of her wearable and handheld gadgets and place them on a charging pad. This paper introduces MultiSpot, a new wireless charging technology that can charge multiple devices, even as the user is wearing them or carrying them in her pocket. A MultiSpot charger acts as an access point for wireless power. When a user enters the vicinity of the MultiSpot charger, all of her gadgets start to charge automatically. We have prototyped MultiSpot and evaluated it using off-the-shelf mobile phones, smartwatches, and tablets. Our results show that MultiSpot can charge 6 devices at distances of up to 50cm. National Science Foundation (U.S.) 2015-09-30T12:58:32Z 2015-09-30T12:58:32Z 2015-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781450336192 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99110 Lixin Shi, Zachary Kabelac, Dina Katabi, and David Perreault. 2015. Wireless Power Hotspot that Charges All of Your Devices. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2-13. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8835-7810 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2638-4028 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0746-6191 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4854-4157 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2789168.2790092 Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom '15) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Perreault via Vabulas |
| spellingShingle | Shi, Lixin Katabi, Dina Kabelac, Zachary E. Perreault, David J. Wireless Power Hotspot that Charges All of Your Devices |
| title | Wireless Power Hotspot that Charges All of Your Devices |
| title_full | Wireless Power Hotspot that Charges All of Your Devices |
| title_fullStr | Wireless Power Hotspot that Charges All of Your Devices |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wireless Power Hotspot that Charges All of Your Devices |
| title_short | Wireless Power Hotspot that Charges All of Your Devices |
| title_sort | wireless power hotspot that charges all of your devices |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99110 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8835-7810 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2638-4028 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0746-6191 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4854-4157 |
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