{"id":19437,"date":"2015-11-19T08:48:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/power-over-wi-fi-named-one-of-the-years-game-changing-technologies"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:17","slug":"power-over-wi-fi-named-one-of-the-years-game-changing-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/power-over-wi-fi-named-one-of-the-years-game-changing-technologies","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Power Over Wi-Fi\u2019 named one of the year\u2019s game-changing technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/power-over-wi-fi-named-one-of-the-years-game-changing-technologies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Washington engineers have developed a novel technology that uses a Wi-Fi router\u2014a source of ubiquitous but untapped energy in indoor environments\u2014to power devices.<\/p>\n<p>The Power Over Wi-Fi (PoWiFi) system is one of the most innovative and game-changing technologies of the year, according to Popular Science, which included it in the magazine\u2019s annual \u201cBest of What\u2019s New\u201d awards announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The technology attracted attention earlier this year when researchers published an online paper showing how they harvested energy from Wi-Fi signals to power a simple temperature sensor, a low-resolution grayscale camera and a charger for a Jawbone activity tracking bracelet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-11-power-wi-fi-year-game-changing-technologies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Washington engineers have developed a novel technology that uses a Wi-Fi router\u2014a source of ubiquitous but untapped energy in indoor environments\u2014to power devices. The Power Over Wi-Fi (PoWiFi) system is one of the most innovative and game-changing technologies of the year, according to Popular Science, which included it in the magazine\u2019s annual \u201cBest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1497,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-energy","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69170,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19437\/revisions\/69170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}