Microwave Directional Wireless Power Transmission for Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract:

Power shortage is one of critical issues stalling the development of wireless sensor networks. This paper attempts to address this issue by means of microwave power transmission. In this paper, we propose a sensor node framework using a high-frequency microwave power transmitting module to allow sensor nodes to transmit power to others. We introduce the process of exchanging power between two adjacent sensor nodes and design a power transmission routing protocol called PTR in this paper. PTR optimizes the power transmission of a whole network so that the power of energy sources can efficiently reach any sensor node in the network. We have done simulations and analysis on this framework and the results are positive.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 756-759)
• Pages: 746-750
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.756-759.746
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Dong Rong Wu, He Jun Wu, Xiao Lu Zhu
• Keywords: Energy Shortage, Power Transfer Protocol, Wireless Power Transmission, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)

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