{"id":124356,"date":"2021-06-27T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T00:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/backscatter-breakthrough-runs-near-zero-power-iot-communicators-at-5g-speeds-everywhere"},"modified":"2021-06-27T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T00:23:14","slug":"backscatter-breakthrough-runs-near-zero-power-iot-communicators-at-5g-speeds-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/backscatter-breakthrough-runs-near-zero-power-iot-communicators-at-5g-speeds-everywhere","title":{"rendered":"Backscatter breakthrough runs near-zero-power IoT communicators at 5G speeds everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/backscatter-breakthrough-runs-near-zero-power-iot-communicators-at-5g-speeds-everywhere.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The promise of 5G Internet of Things (IoT) networks requires more scalable and robust communication systems\u2014ones that deliver drastically higher data rates and lower power consumption per device.<\/p>\n<p>Backscatter radios\u2014passive sensors that reflect rather than radiate energy\u2014are known for their low-cost, low-complexity, and battery-free operation, making them a potential key enabler of this future although they typically feature low data rates and their performance strongly depends on the surrounding environment.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Nokia Bell Labs, and Heriot-Watt University have found a low-cost way for backscatter radios to support high-throughput communication and 5G-speed Gb\/sec data transfer using only a single transistor when previously it required expensive and multiple stacked transistors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The promise of 5G Internet of Things (IoT) networks requires more scalable and robust communication systems\u2014ones that deliver drastically higher data rates and lower power consumption per device. Backscatter radios\u2014passive sensors that reflect rather than radiate energy\u2014are known for their low-cost, low-complexity, and battery-free operation, making them a potential key enabler of this future although [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124356","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=124356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}