Can WiFi Beamforming Support an Energy-Harvesting Wearable?
Speaker (s):
TRAN Huy Vu
PhD Candidate
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
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October 31, 2017, Tuesday
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Meeting Room 4.4, Level 4
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University
80 Stamford Road
Singapore 178902
We look forward to seeing you at this research seminar.
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About the Talk
We tackle the problem of developing a wearable device that operates indoors on harvested RF energy, but can support gesture tracking applications that require relatively energy-intensive inertial sensors. We propose an infrastructure-assisted energy harvesting paradigm, where a ubiquitously-deployed WiFi infrastructure helps to significantly improve the harvesting power, by employing state-of-the-art techniques for device-free user localization and beam formed, directional packet transmission. Preliminary experimental results suggest that these techniques might be able to support an intelligent, triggered mode of gesture recognition. The results also point to several practical challenges that such an opportunistically beam- formed mode of WiFi-based energy harvesting must address.
This a pre-conference talk for 5th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting & Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSsys 2017).
About the Speaker
TRAN Huy Vu is a PhD candidate in the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, working in the area of mobile and wearable computing with Professor Archan Misra. He received his Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering degree from the Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, Vietnam, in 2009 and 2012 correspondingly. His current research focuses on sensing system on wearable device.
