Power-over-Skin’s “skin-powered” technology allows wearable devices to work without batteries
Modern computing devices are powerful and compact and can be easily worn on the body. However, batteries have become a major obstacle to design and user experience, increasing the weight and size of the device, and requiring regular charging and removal of the device.
To solve these problems, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have proposed “skin-powered” technology that transfers energy through the body.
Powerful computing devices are now small enough to be easily worn on your body. However, batteries pose a major design and user experience hurdle, add weight and bulk, and often require regular disassembly and charging of the equipment.
To this end,”skin-powered” was developed, a method that uses the human body itself to power many distributed, battery-less, wearable devices.
Demonstrates power transmission from body distance to head to feet, and has enough energy to power a microcontroller capable of sensing and wireless communication.
Share the results of a research activity that informed our implementation, as well as experiments to verify the final system.
Finally, several demonstration devices are provided, from input controllers to longitudinal biosensors, that highlight the efficacy and potential of the method.
Original text:https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3654777.3676394
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