Energy Neutral Activity Monitoring: Wearables Powered by Smart Inductive Charging Surfaces

Xenofon Fafoutis; Lindsay R Clare; Neil Grabham; Steve Beeby; Bernard H Stark; Robert J Piechocki; Ian J Craddock

doi:10.1109/SAHCN.2016.7732986

Energy Neutral Activity Monitoring: Wearables Powered by Smart Inductive Charging Surfaces

Xenofon Fafoutis, Lindsay R Clare, Neil Grabham, Steve Beeby, Bernard H Stark, Robert J Piechocki, Ian J Craddock

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Abstract

Wearable technologies play a key role in the shift of traditional healthcare services towards eHealth and self-monitoring. Maintenance overheads, such as regular battery recharging, impose a limitation on the applicability of such technologies in some groups of the population. In this paper, we propose an activity monitoring system that is based on wearable sensors that are powered by textile inductive charging surfaces. By strategically positioning these surfaces on pieces of furniture that are routinely used, the system passively charges the wearable sensor whilst the user is present. As a proof-of-concept example, experiments conducted on a prototype implementation of the system suggest that 36 minutes of daily desktop computer usage are on average sufficient to maintain a wearable sensor energy neutral.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 13th IEEE International Conferernce on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON 2016)
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of a meeting held 27-30 June 2016, London, UK
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	144-152
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509017324
ISBN (Print)	9781509017331
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SAHCN.2016.7732986
Publication status	Published - Dec 2016
Event	13th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON) - London, United Kingdom Duration: 27 Jun 2016 → 30 Jun 2016

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Conference	13th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON)
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	27/06/16 → 30/06/16

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Digital Health
SPHERE

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EHealth
Energy harvesting
Energy neutral operation
Inductive power transfer
Internet of things
Wearable technologies

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Fafoutis, X., Clare, L. R., Grabham, N., Beeby, S., Stark, B. H., Piechocki, R. J., & Craddock, I. J. (2016). Energy Neutral Activity Monitoring: Wearables Powered by Smart Inductive Charging Surfaces. In 2016 13th IEEE International Conferernce on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON 2016): Proceedings of a meeting held 27-30 June 2016, London, UK (pp. 144-152). Article 7732986 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/SAHCN.2016.7732986

Fafoutis, Xenofon ; Clare, Lindsay R ; Grabham, Neil et al. / Energy Neutral Activity Monitoring : Wearables Powered by Smart Inductive Charging Surfaces. 2016 13th IEEE International Conferernce on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON 2016): Proceedings of a meeting held 27-30 June 2016, London, UK. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016. pp. 144-152

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Fafoutis, X, Clare, LR, Grabham, N, Beeby, S, Stark, BH , Piechocki, RJ & Craddock, IJ 2016, Energy Neutral Activity Monitoring: Wearables Powered by Smart Inductive Charging Surfaces. in 2016 13th IEEE International Conferernce on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON 2016): Proceedings of a meeting held 27-30 June 2016, London, UK., 7732986, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 144-152, 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), London, United Kingdom, 27/06/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/SAHCN.2016.7732986

Energy Neutral Activity Monitoring: Wearables Powered by Smart Inductive Charging Surfaces. / Fafoutis, Xenofon; Clare, Lindsay R; Grabham, Neil et al.
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