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KMOU scientists develop an energy-efficient wireless power and information transfer system

The new framework for solving the energy efficiency problem outperforms state-of-the-art systems

KMOU scientists develop an energy-efficient wireless power and information transfer system
2023-09-05
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Industrial Internet of Things (IIoTs) refers to a technology that combines wireless sensors, controllers, and mobile communication technologies to make every aspect of industrial production processes intelligent and efficient. Since IIoTs can involve several small battery-driven devices and sensors, there is a growing need to develop a robust network for data transmission and power transfer to monitor the IIoT environment.

 

In this regard, wireless power transfer is a promising technology. It utilizes radio frequency signals to power small devices that consume minimal power. Recently, simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), which utilizes a single radio frequency signal to simultaneously perform energy harvesting and information decoding, has attracted significant interest for IIoTs. Additionally, with smart devices rapidly growing in number, SWIPT has been combined with nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, which is a promising candidate for IIoTs due to their ability to extend the battery life of sensors and other devices. However, the energy efficiency of this system falls significantly with transmission distance from the central controller.

 

To overcome this limitation, a team of researchers from South Korea, led by Associate Professor Dong-Wook Seo from the Division of Electronics and Electrical Information Engineering at Korea Maritime and Ocean University, has developed a new framework by applying SWIPT-aided NOMA to a distributed antenna system (DAS), significantly improving the energy and spectral efficiencies of IIoTs. “By applying a DAS with supporting antennas relatively close to edge users alongside a central base station, SWIPT-NOMA’s loss with growing distance can be reduced efficiently. This improves information decoding and energy harvesting performance,” explains Dr. Seo.

 

Their study was made available online on 27 October 2022 and published in Volume 19, Issue 7 of the journal IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics in 01 July 2023.

 

The researchers formulated a three-step iterative algorithm to maximize the energy efficiency of the SWIPT-NOMA-DAS system. They first optimized the power allocation for the central IoT controller. After that, the power allocation for NOMA signaling and power splitting (PS) assignment for SWIPT were optimized jointly, while minimizing the data rates and harvested energy requirements. Finally, the team analyzed an outage event in which the system cannot provide sufficient energy and data rates, thereby extending the joint power allocation and PS assignment optimization method to the multi-cluster scenario.

 

They validated their algorithm through extensive numerical simulations, finding that the proposed SWIPT-NOMA-DAS system is five times more energy efficient than SWIPT-NOMA without DAS. Also, it shows a more than 10% improvement in performance over SWIPT-OMA-DAS.

 

Highlighting the significance of their study, Dr. Seo says: “This technology ensures very efficient energy consumption and offers various advantages such as convenience, low power, and battery life extension. Thus, it can be applied to smartphones, laptops, wearable devices, and electric vehicles. Most importantly, the SWIPT-NOMA-DAS system can optimize resource allocation and efficiently perform wireless charging and information transmission for users in an IoT environment.”

 

Let us hope that this groundbreaking framework provides a significant boost to the IIoTs communications technology!

 

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Reference

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2022.3217503

Authors: Dongjae Kim1, Minseok Choi2,, and Dong-Wook Seo3,

Affiliations:

1Artificial Intelligence Convergence Research Center for Regional Innovation, Korea Maritime and Ocean University

2Department of Electronic Engineering, Kyung Hee University

3Division of Electronics and Electrical Information Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University

 

About National Korea Maritime & Ocean University 

South Korea’s most prestigious university for maritime studies, transportation science and engineering, the National Korea Maritime & Ocean University is located on an island in Busan. The university was established in 1945 and since then has merged with other universities to currently being the only post-secondary institution that specializes in maritime sciences and engineering. It has four colleges that offer both undergraduate and graduate courses.

Website: http://www.kmou.ac.kr/english/main.do

 

About the author

Dong-Wook Seo is an Associate Professor of the Division of Electronics and Electrical Information Engineering at Korea Maritime and Ocean University (KMOU). Before joining KMOU, he was a senior researcher for the Defense Agency for Technology and Quality (DTaQ) and the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI). He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2011. His team is currently developing next-generation high-performance electromagnetic systems for wireless communications, energy, and sensing applications.

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