Short-range 4×4 MIMO Wireless Communication and Power Transfer system

This paper investigated coexistence possibility of high efficiency Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) system and high-speed communication system in Short-range Wireless Communication and Power Transfer (WiCoPT) system. To realize both high power transfer efficiency and high data rate, this paper proposes the WiCoPT system, which is supported by the Short-Range Multiple Input and Multiple Output (SR-MIMO) transfer technique. Relationship between the antenna element spacing and the transmission performance was analyzed to clarify the maximum performances of the power transfer efficiency and the data rate. The paper analyzed and demonstrated a 4×4 MIMO WiCoPT system. The numerical analysis indicates that the antenna element spacing to maximize the power transfer efficiency is different from that to realize the highest channel capacity. In addition, the analysis clarifies there are two suitable antenna element spacing for high power transfer operation. Therefore, our proposing system chose the antenna element spacing to realize the second peak for the high-level power transfer efficiency simultaneously. The 4×4 MIMO WiCoPT system achieved a channel capacity of 45 bit/s/Hz and a power transfer efficiency of 64.8 %.