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Battery-Free Cellphone

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Shyamnath Gollakota,

Joshua R. SmithAuthors Info & Claims

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Volume 1, Issue 2

Article No.: 25, Pages 1 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/3090090

Published: 30 June 2017 Publication History

Abstract

We present the first battery-free cellphone design that consumes only a few micro-watts of power. Our design can sense speech, actuate the earphones, and switch between uplink and downlink communications, all in real time. Our system optimizes transmission and reception of speech while simultaneously harvesting power which enables the battery-free cellphone to operate continuously. The battery-free device prototype is built using commercial-off-the-shelf components on a printed circuit board. It can operate on power that is harvested from RF signals transmitted by a basestation 31 feet (9.4 m) away. Further, using power harvested from ambient light with tiny photodiodes, we show that our device can communicate with a basestation that is 50 feet (15.2 m) away. Finally, we perform the first Skype call using a battery-free phone over a cellular network, via our custom bridged basestation. This we believe is a major leap in the capability of battery-free devices and a step towards a fully functional battery-free cellphone.

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2. Human-centered computing
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Published: 30 June 2017

Accepted: 01 June 2017

Revised: 01 April 2017

Received: 01 February 2017

Published in IMWUT Volume 1, Issue 2

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