Study on intermittent microwave power transmission to a ZigBee device

Author

Ichihara, Takuya ; Mitani, Tomohiko ; Shinohara, Naoki

fYear

2012

fDate

10-11 May 2012

Firstpage

209

Lastpage

212

Abstract

The objective of the present study is to drive or charge a ZigBee device by intermittent microwave power transmission, which is compatible with the wireless sensor network. We found out that intermittent microwave power transmission drove the rectifier circuit with high efficiency at the average consumed power of the ZigBee devices. Also we confirmed that the ZigBee device could communicate correctly in high power density with intermittent microwave irradiation; whereas it could not communicate robustly in slight power density with continuous microwave irradiation. We finally demonstrated that the ZigBee device worked and communicated correctly without a battery by intermittent microwave power transmission.

Keywords

Zigbee; inductive power transmission; rectifying circuits; wireless sensor networks; ZigBee device; continuous microwave irradiation; high power density; intermittent microwave irradiation; intermittent microwave power transmission; rectifier circuit; wireless sensor network; Microwave FET integrated circuits; Microwave circuits; Microwave communication; Microwave devices; Microwave integrated circuits; Microwave measurements; Zigbee; Microwave Power Transmission; ZigBee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Workshop Series on Innovative Wireless Power Transmission: Technologies, Systems, and Applications (IMWS), 2012 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1777-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS.2012.6215795

Filename

6215795