{"title":"Poster Abstract: A Human Body Power Transfer System to Enable Battery-Less Sensor Nodes","authors":"Rabea Rogge, Lukas Schulthess, C. Vogt, M. Magno","doi":"10.1145/3576842.3589167","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"New wearable technologies come with high requirements for miniaturization and flexibility, which are usually restricted by rigid batteries. Capacitive power transfer and communication, employing the human body as a conductive medium enables energy-efficient communication and even the possibility to achieve battery-less wearable sensors distributed on the body. This work presents as a proof-of-concept a complete system consisting of a custom-designed on-body transmitter and battery-less receiver and evaluates the power transmitted and the range achieved. We demonstrate the applicability of our prototype to a real-life scenario as a glucose level tracker even in realistic non-perfect grounding conditions. The realized design offers a power transmission of up to 2.5 mW at distances of 15 cm and at 125 cm, showing the possibility of battery-less on-body edge computing applications.","PeriodicalId":266438,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3576842.3589167","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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New wearable technologies come with high requirements for miniaturization and flexibility, which are usually restricted by rigid batteries. Capacitive power transfer and communication, employing the human body as a conductive medium enables energy-efficient communication and even the possibility to achieve battery-less wearable sensors distributed on the body. This work presents as a proof-of-concept a complete system consisting of a custom-designed on-body transmitter and battery-less receiver and evaluates the power transmitted and the range achieved. We demonstrate the applicability of our prototype to a real-life scenario as a glucose level tracker even in realistic non-perfect grounding conditions. The realized design offers a power transmission of up to 2.5 mW at distances of 15 cm and at 125 cm, showing the possibility of battery-less on-body edge computing applications.