Ambient RF Energy Scavenging: GSM and WLAN Power Density Measurements

By Hubregt J. Visser, A. Reniers, J. Theeuwes. European Microwave Conference, 2008

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• RF Energy Harvesting and Transport for Wireless Sensor Network Applications: Principles and Requirements (2013, methodology): “Measurements performed in a wireless local area network (WLAN) environment indicate power density values that are at least one order of magnitude lower [16].”
• Wi-fi backscatter (2014, background): “power from ambient RF signals including TV, cellular, and Wi-Fi transmissions [26, 27, 22].”
• A High-Efficiency Broadband Rectenna for Ambient Wireless Energy Harvesting (2015, background): “Some researchers have conducted the field measurement survey in order to identify the frequency band and the power density of the ambient wireless energy [24], [25].”
• Micropower energy harvesting (2009, background): “First measurements in a WLAN environment indicate power density levels that are at least one order of magnitude lower [48].”
• A Multi-Band Stacked RF Energy Harvester With RF-to-DC Efficiency Up to 84% (2015, background): “Although being ubiquitous in our daily live, the drawback of RF sources is that the power density they can provide is low [3].”
• Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Wireless Sensor Networks (2010, background): “First measurements in a WLAN environment indicate power density levels that are at least one order of magnitude lower [67].”
• Ambient RF Energy Harvesting in Urban and Semi-Urban Environments (2013, background): “Other surveys [20], [21] compare their measurements relative to the distance from the nearest TX.”
• Strategy for Microwave Energy Harvesting From Ambient Field or a Feeding Source (2012, background): “that typical power levels 25–100 m from a GSM base station reach several μW/cm2 , especially in urban areas [34].”