Wireless Power Transfer Technologies, Applications, and Future Trends: A Review

Alabsi, Aisha; Hawbani, Ammar; Wang, Xingfu; Dubai, Ahmed Al-; Hu, Jiankun; Aziz, Samah Abdel; Kumar, Santosh; Zhao, Liang; Shvetsov, Alexey V.; Alsamhi, Saeed Hamood

Abstract

Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) is a disruptive technology that allows wireless energy provisioning for energy- limited IoT devices, thus decreasing the over-reliance on batteries and wires. WPT could replace conventional energy provisioning (e.g., energy harvesting) and expand for deployment in many of our daily-life applications, including but not limited to healthcare, transportation, automation, and smart cities. As a new rising technology, WPT has attracted many researchers from academia and industry in terms of technologies and charging scheduling within a plethora of services and applications. Thus, in this paper, we review the most recent studies related to WPT, including the classifications, advantages, disadvantages, and main application domains. Furthermore, we review the recently designed wireless charging scheduling algorithms and schemes for wireless sensor networks. Our study provides a detailed survey of wireless charging scheduling schemes covering the main scheme classifications, evaluation metrics, application domains, advantages, and disadvantages of each charging scheme. We further summarize trends and opportunities for applying WPT at some intersections.

Citation

Alabsi, A., Hawbani, A., Wang, X., Dubai, A. A., Hu, J., Aziz, S. A., …Alsamhi, S. H. (in press). Wireless Power Transfer Technologies, Applications, and Future Trends: A Review. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2024.3380607

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 18, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Mar 22, 2024
• Deposit Date: Mar 19, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 22, 2024
• Electronic ISSN: 2377-3782
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2024.3380607
• Keywords: wireless power transfer, wireless sensor networks, smart homes, healthcare, industrial, charging schemes
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3569355