{"id":121044,"date":"2021-03-29T20:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/energy-harvesting-card-treats-5g-networks-as-wireless-power-grids"},"modified":"2021-03-29T20:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:22:33","slug":"energy-harvesting-card-treats-5g-networks-as-wireless-power-grids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/energy-harvesting-card-treats-5g-networks-as-wireless-power-grids","title":{"rendered":"Energy-harvesting card treats 5G networks as wireless power grids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sNuFU3H5GR0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team from Georgia Tech has just announced a world-first: a 3D-printed rectifying antenna the size of a playing card that can harvest electromagnetic energy from 5G signals and use it to power devices, turning 5G networks into wireless power grids.<\/p>\n<p>Wireless communications put a lot of energy into the air, and over the years we\u2019ve covered <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/intel-researchers-demo-rf-energy-harvester\/10837\/\">a number<\/a> of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/graphene-wi-fi-signals-wireless-charging\/\">efforts<\/a> to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/rca-airnergy-charges-gadgets-ambient-wifi-signals\/13856\/\">harvest that energy<\/a>. Short-range Wi-Fi signals have been the target of several projects, TV broadcasts and radio signals have been the focus of others. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/smartphone-radio-wave-scavenging\/37702\/\">One device<\/a> even hopes to increase the life of a smartphone\u2019s battery by 30 percent just by harvesting some of the radio waves the phone itself is generating.<\/p>\n<p>But 5G communications offer a whole new opportunity. 5G has been designed for blazing fast and low-latency communications, reads the Georgia Tech team\u2019s latest study, published in the peer-reviewed journal <i>Scientific Reports.<\/i> To do so, mm-wave frequencies were adopted and allowed unprecedently high radiated power densities by the FCC. Unknowingly, the architects of 5G have, thereby, created a wireless power grid capable of powering devices at ranges far exceeding the capabilities of any existing technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from Georgia Tech has just announced a world-first: a 3D-printed rectifying antenna the size of a playing card that can harvest electromagnetic energy from 5G signals and use it to power devices, turning 5G networks into wireless power grids. Wireless communications put a lot of energy into the air, and over the years [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121044","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}