RF Power Transmission: Energy Harvesting for Self-Sustaining Miniaturized Sensor Nodes

Abstract

Radio Frequency (RF) energy transfer is an emerging technology to supply perpetually the new generation of internet of things devices. The proposed work shows the design and implementation of RF power transmission circuits the possible usages as a power source for batteryless devices. The realized circuits can receive power in the order of 1-10 mW depending on the distance from the transmitter, size, and antenna efficiency, allowing the deployment of these rectification circuits in any low power sensing network that requires a reliable and controllable power source. This paper will introduce and illustrate the preliminary results achieve for the work done for in a life-demo.