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IN THIS PAPER
History of Wireless power. What is WiTricity? Need of WiTricity.. Basic Principle. WiTricity Technology How it works?? Features and benefits. Applications Pros and Cons.

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History of Wireless Power:

In 1899, Sir Nikola Tesla Proposed a method of Wireless Power Transmission.
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Nikola Teslas Wardenclyffe tower built on Long Island, NY in 1904. This tower was intended to Implement Teslas vision of transmitting power and information around the world. The tower was destroyed in 1917.
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The forgotten idea is reborn after 100 years!!

RESONANCE COUPLING
A group of engineers at MIT came up with the idea to use resonant induction to transmit power wirelessly.
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Resonance", a phenomenon that causes an object to vibrate when energy of a certain frequency is applied.

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The Brain behind WiTricity is of Prof. Marin Soljacic from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and he is the one who has proved that magnetic coupled resonance can be utilized in order to transfer energy without wires.
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Experimental Design:
The experimental scheme consisted of two Selfresonant coils. One coil (source coil) is coupled inductively to an oscillating circuit; the other (device coil) is coupled inductively to a resistive load. Self-resonant coils rely on the interplay between distributed inductance and distributed capacitance to achieve resonance.

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What is

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WiTricity is nothing but wireless electricity Transmission of electric energy from one object to another without the use of wires is called WiTricity Because of WiTricity some of the devices wont require batteries to operate.
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Need of

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Increased usage of Laptops, Cell-phones, House-hold robots etc which run on batteries.

Wire less energy transfer would be useful for many applications as above and reduce the usage of wires and batteries in our life.

BASIC PRINCIPLE
Two resonant objects of the same resonant frequency tend to exchange energy efficiently, while dissipating relatively little energy in extraneous off-resonant objects.
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WiTricity power source, left, is connected to AC power

Blue lines-Magnetic near field Yellow lines- flow of energy Power transfer is omni directional and more efficient. Bulb is connected to Capture device capture device coil

Source coil

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TECHNOLOGY
The Transfer of Electricity from one place to another without wires is known as WiTricity.

There is WiTricity power sources(transmitter) and capture devices(receiver).

Power source provides power to the devices where as capture device captures it to work. Power source and capture devices are specially designed magnetic resonators. Magnetic resonators efficiently transfer power over large distance via the magnetic near-field.

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Features and Benefits

1. Highly Resonant Strong Coupling Provides High Efficiency Over Distance.
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2.Energy Transfer via Magnetic Near Field Can Penetrate and Wrap Around Obstacles 3.Non-Radiative Energy Transfer is Safe for People and Animals.

4.Scalable Design Enables Solutions from mill watts to Kilowatts .

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TECHNOLOGY CAN PROVIDE

Direct wireless power-within the range of witricity power source

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Automatic

wireless charging- both in and out of range of its witricity power source.

Some statistics
Used frequencies are 1MHz and10MHz At 1Mhz, field strengths were safe for human At 10MHz, Field strengths were more than ICNIRP standards

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NOW

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No more helical coils Companies like Intel are also working on devices that make use of RIC Researches for decreasing the field strength Researches to increase the range WiTricity corp and Mitsubishi motors have agreed to research on easily deployable electric vehicles wireless charging 18 systems.
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TOMORROW

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1) Power from mains to antenna, which is made of copper 2) Resonates at less than 10MHz (electromagnetic waves) 3)Extended coverage range 4) Electricity received by antenna, also resonating at same frequency. 5) Energy not transferred to laptop re-absorbed by source antenna. People/other objects not affected as not resonating at 10MHz
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APPLICATIONS..
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIAL TRANSPORTATION

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Advantages
*No need of line of sight. *No need of power cables and batteries.
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*Does not interfere with radio waves.

*Wastage of power is small .

*No health implications. *Highly efficient than electromagnetic induction.
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*Less costly.

DISADVANTAGES

Distance constraint
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Field strengths have to be under safety levels

Initial cost is high

In RIC, tuning is difficult High frequency signals must be the supply
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WiTricity Technology will make our products:

More convenient:
No manual recharging or changing batteries.

Eliminate unsightly, and costly power cords.

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More reliable:
Never run out of battery power.

More environment friendly:

Reduce use of disposable batteries. Use efficient grid power directly instead of inefficient battery charging

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REFERENCES
http://www.WiTricity.com http://www.WiTricitypower.com http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/1143254/DC1/1 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1143254 http://www.witric.com/2007/06/10/WiTricity-impact/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiTricity http://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/WiTricity - ieee spectrum Jan 2011
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