Wireless charging and readout via textile coil for continuous full-body wearable computing

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Auteurs principaux: Takahashi, Ryo, Kawahara, Yoshihiro
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author Takahashi, Ryo
Kawahara, Yoshihiro
author_facet Takahashi, Ryo
Kawahara, Yoshihiro
contents The growing use of wearable devices for activity tracking, healthcare, and haptics faces challenges due to the bulkiness and short lifespan of batteries. Integration of a textile-based wireless charging and readout system into everyday clothing can enable seamless power supply and data collection around the body. However, expanding such system to cover the entire body is challenging, as it increases electromagnetic interference with the body, degrading the performance of wireless system. This article introduces a meandered textile coil designed for body-scale, efficient wireless charging and readout. The meander coil can confine a strong inductive field near the body surface, ensuring W-class safe charging and sensitive readout with uW-class low power. Moreover, its zigzag design is simple enough for mass production on industrial knitting machines. Therefore, the body-scale meander coil can continuously operate battery-free wearable devices across the body, leading to ubiquitous deployment of continuous full-body wearable computing into everyday clothing.
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spellingShingle Wireless charging and readout via textile coil for continuous full-body wearable computing
Takahashi, Ryo
Kawahara, Yoshihiro
Human-Computer Interaction
The growing use of wearable devices for activity tracking, healthcare, and haptics faces challenges due to the bulkiness and short lifespan of batteries. Integration of a textile-based wireless charging and readout system into everyday clothing can enable seamless power supply and data collection around the body. However, expanding such system to cover the entire body is challenging, as it increases electromagnetic interference with the body, degrading the performance of wireless system. This article introduces a meandered textile coil designed for body-scale, efficient wireless charging and readout. The meander coil can confine a strong inductive field near the body surface, ensuring W-class safe charging and sensitive readout with uW-class low power. Moreover, its zigzag design is simple enough for mass production on industrial knitting machines. Therefore, the body-scale meander coil can continuously operate battery-free wearable devices across the body, leading to ubiquitous deployment of continuous full-body wearable computing into everyday clothing.
title Wireless charging and readout via textile coil for continuous full-body wearable computing
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11015