A Truly Wireless World – Is This the Future?
Wireless power, or at least the idea of it, has been around for centuries. Nikola Tesla invented the first “Tesla coils” that produced an electrical field able to wirelessly power light bulbs up to fifty feet away in the late 1800s. Unfortunately, this did not lead to widespread use of wireless power.
Constantly, every day, there are thousands of wireless energy signals being sent back and forth across large distances, but we have yet to perfect easy methods of wireless electricity. That might be about to change.
For a while, there have been wireless charging stations available for cell phones, but those come riddled with many mobile computer support problems. Most of the time, these wireless-charging stations will only work with certain products, or they become obsolete when you upgrade to a new model of phone because of incompatibility.
There are many people trying to fix these mobile computer support issues and expand the uses of wireless power transmission. A new group of leaders in global industries recently formed the Power Matters Alliance (PMA) in an effort to update the way power works all over the world. According to Ran Poliakine, the CEO of Powermat Technologies, in an article by Market Watch, “The only thing preventing us from enjoying the freedom of a truly wireless world is the power cord. Powermat Technologies is pleased to be collaborating with the IEEE to develop a new paradigm for power.” The PMA hopes to set standards for wireless power as well as create a smarter way for power to interact with our devices.
To this end, a student in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke has developed a wireless power-transmitting coffee table for the Smart Home dorm. Yink Teo got the idea when he “saw the CEO of WiTricity, Eric Giler, demonstrating the use of wireless power in consumer electronics such as televisions and mobile phones” and he decided to develop the idea on his own.
With these new developments, it is easy to imagine a close future where you will never have to plug a laptop into a wall socket again. You would simply set it on the charging surface and it would be ready to go when you need it. The major mobile computer support problem right now is making all devices compatible with the charging stations. When that problem is fixed, probably by standardizing the frequency used to connect the devices, we will be in a new era of truly wireless electronics.
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