{"id":12457,"date":"2014-10-08T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12457"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:12:00","slug":"how-to-enable-the-internet-of-things-without-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/how-to-enable-the-internet-of-things-without-batteries","title":{"rendered":"How to enable the Internet of Things without batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurzweil AI<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uw.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Washington<\/a> engineers have designed a clever new communication system called <a href=\"http:\/\/iotwifi.cs.washington.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wi-Fi backscatter<\/a> that uses ambient radio frequency signals as a power source for battery-free devices (such as temperature sensors or wearable technology) and also reuses the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to provide Internet connectivity for these devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Internet of Things devices are going to take off, we must provide connectivity to the potentially billions of battery-free devices that will be embedded in everyday objects,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/homes.cs.washington.edu\/%7Egshyam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shyam Gollakota<\/a>, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/how-to-could-enable-an-internet-of-things-without-batteries\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurzweil AI University of Washington engineers have designed a clever new communication system called Wi-Fi backscatter that uses ambient radio frequency signals as a power source for battery-free devices (such as temperature sensors or wearable technology) and also reuses the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to provide Internet connectivity for these devices. \u201cIf Internet of Things devices [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46839,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions\/46839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}