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RF Energy Transfer Testbed Based on Off-the-shelf Components for IoT Application

IoT 응용을 위한 RF 에너지 전송 테스트베드 구현 및 실험

  • Aziz, Arif Abdul (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering) ;
  • Tribudi, Dimas (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering) ;
  • Ginting, Lorenz (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering) ;
  • Rosyady, Phisca Aditya (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering) ;
  • Setiawan, Dedi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering) ;
  • Choi, Kae Won (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering)
  • Received : 2015.08.31
  • Accepted : 2015.10.20
  • Published : 2015.10.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a testbed for testing the RF energy transfer technology in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment, and provide experimental results obtained by using the testbed. The IoT environment considered in this paper consists of a power beacon, which is able to wirelessly transfers energy via microwave, and multiple sensor nodes, which makes use of the energy received from the power beacon. We have implemented the testbed to experiment the RF energy transfer in such IoT environment. We have used off-the-shelf hardware components to build the testbed and have made the tesbed controlled by software so that various energy and data transmission protocol experiments can easily be conducted. We also provide experimental results and discuss the future research direction.

본 논문에서는 IoT 환경에서의 RF 무선 에너지 전송을 실험할 수 있는 테스트베드 구현 방안에 대해 설명하고 이를 이용한 실험 결과를 소개한다. 본 논문에서 고려하는 IoT 환경은 마이크로파를 통해 무선으로 에너지를 전송할 수 있는 전력 비콘(power beacon)과 이로부터 에너지를 수신 받아 동작하는 다수의 센서 노드로 구성되어 있다. 이러한 IoT 환경에서 RF 에너지 전송을 실험하기 위한 테스트베드를 구현하였으며 주로 상용 제품으로 테스트베드를 구성하고 소프트웨어를 통한 제어를 가능하게 함으로써 다양한 에너지 및 데이터 전송 프로토콜 실험을 수행할 수 있는 환경을 쉽게 구축할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 테스트베드를 통한 실험 결과를 소개하고 향후 테스트베드 활용 방안에 대해 논의한다.

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