{"id":120896,"date":"2021-03-26T03:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/leveraging-the-5g-network-to-wirelessly-power-iot-devices"},"modified":"2021-03-26T03:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:22:35","slug":"leveraging-the-5g-network-to-wirelessly-power-iot-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/leveraging-the-5g-network-to-wirelessly-power-iot-devices","title":{"rendered":"Leveraging the 5G network to wirelessly power IoT devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/leveraging-the-5g-network-to-wirelessly-power-iot-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have uncovered an innovative way to tap into the over-capacity of 5G networks, turning them into \u201ca wireless power grid\u201d for powering Internet of Things (IoT) devices that today need batteries to operate.<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia Tech inventors have developed a flexible Rotman lens-based rectifying antenna (rectenna) system capable, for the first time, of millimeter-wave harvesting in the 28-GHz band. (The Rotman lens is key for beamforming networks and is frequently used in radar surveillance systems to see targets in multiple directions without physically moving the antenna system.) <\/p>\n<p>But to harvest enough power to supply low-power devices at long ranges, large aperture antennas are required. The problem with large antennas is they have a narrowing field of view. This limitation prevents their operation if the antenna is widely dispersed from a 5G base station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have uncovered an innovative way to tap into the over-capacity of 5G networks, turning them into \u201ca wireless power grid\u201d for powering Internet of Things (IoT) devices that today need batteries to operate. The Georgia Tech inventors have developed a flexible Rotman lens-based rectifying antenna (rectenna) system capable, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,418,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-internet","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}