A System on Chip for Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

The talk entitled A System on Chip for Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer is motivated by the continuous development of loT (Internet Of things) infrastructure and applications which is paving the way to advanced and innovative ideas and solutions, some of which are pushing to the limit the state-of-the-art technology. The increasing demand of WSN (Wireless Sensor Nodes) Nodes which need to be capable to collecting and sharing data wirelessly while often positioned in places hard to be reached and serviced, motivates engineers to look for innovative solutions of energy harvesting and wireless power transfer to allow battery-free sensor nodes. RF harvesting and wireless power transfer, due to the pervasiveness of RF energy, that can reach out of sight places, could be a key technology to power wirelessly IoT sensor devices, that in order to be ubiquitous, need to be wireless, maintenance free, battery free and low cost enough to be used almost anywhere. A System on Chip is presented to be used either as RF power receiver and as a Ultra Low Power high performance power management for multi source energy harvesting. Several different possible applications example are shown.