Efficient Energy Transport in 60 Ghz for Wireless Industrial Sensor Networks

Radio frequency energy transport is a viable technology to power small-sized sensors in wireless industrial sensor networks (WISNs). 60 GHz wireless communication emerges as one of the leading technologies for next generation wireless networks, and it can also be useful to build up WISNs. In this ar...

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Published in:IEEE wireless communications 2017-10, Vol.24 (5), p.143-149
Main Authors: He Li, Ota, Kaoru, Mianxiong Dong, Hsiao-Hwa Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antenna design
Configuration management
Directional antennas
Directive antennas
Energy transfer
Horn antennas
Power efficiency
Radio frequency
Spherical antennas
Transport
Wireless communication
Wireless communications
Wireless networks
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:Radio frequency energy transport is a viable technology to power small-sized sensors in wireless industrial sensor networks (WISNs). 60 GHz wireless communication emerges as one of the leading technologies for next generation wireless networks, and it can also be useful to build up WISNs. In this article, we investigate the efficiency of RF energy transport in WISNs with 60 GHz communications. We present a spherical antenna design with supported analytics on directional antennas in 60 GHz wireless communications. We introduce and solve the spherical distribution problem of directional antennas to maximize the energy transport efficiency in WISNs. The extensive simulations given in this article verify that the proposed antenna configuration performs much better than the existing solutions in WISN applications.
ISSN:1536-1284
1558-0687
DOI:10.1109/MWC.2017.1600212