This seminar is the introduction to Battery-less Smartphone.

Battery-less Smartphone actually

means a Smartphone without battery or the mobile which harness energy from Radio signals or
waves converted with the help of photo diodes.
While Smartphone makers are vying with each other to boast of 4000mAh and 5000mAh
batteries in their devices, a team of scientists have succeeded in testing a mobile phone than can
work without a battery as the power source.
The basic concept the research team at the Washington University worked on was that the
maximum amount of energy consumed by a mobile phone is in the process of converting the
signals which are in analogue format into data that is digital in format.
This process has been done away with in this battery-free device. Instead, the vibrations
produced when a person is speaking through the tiny microphone in the handset are speech
encoded and transmitted to the receiving mobile handset as such. At the receiving end, this
encoded speech is converted back into vibrations, which the phone’s speaker is able to capture
and you can complete the conversation.
A physical button has been provided on the demo phone to switch between transmitting and
receiving modes. This is just a prototype and once the concept is accepted and mass production
takes place this can always be improved upon to make it more sophisticated.
The researchers have developed a base station which can handle the transmission and receiving
of the signals from the mobile device. This base station type module, the team believes can be
easily integrated into the cellular network towers that the service providers rely on to capture and
transmit signals. This is an interesting development and if the phone companies pick up the
suggestions and work on this, battery-free mobile phones can indeed become a reality.