WiTricity -Wireless Electricity

Presented by
S. Pooja
188U5A0410
2nd ECE
--The Wireless Electricity.
CONTENTS
1) Introduction of witricity.
2) History of Witricity.
3) Need of witricity.
4) Basic Principle.
5) Experimental Design.
6) Electrical Response.
7) Types.
CONTENTS
8) Project about witricity.
9) Now and Future.
10) Advantages And Limitations.
 Introduction of witricity.
• The ability to provide electrical energy to remote objects
without wires using oscillating magnetic fields.
• The term WiTricity was used for a project that took place at
MIT, led by Prof. Marin Soljačić in 2007
• WiTricity is based on strong coupling between electromagnetic
resonant objects to transfer energy wirelessly between them.
This differs from other methods like simple induction,
microwaves, or air ionization.
• The system consists of transmitters and receivers that contain
magnetic loop antennas critically tuned to the same frequency.
 Introduction of witricity.
• Due to operating in the electromagnetic near field, the
receiving devices must be no more than about a quarter
wavelength from the transmitter (which is a few meters at the
frequency used by the example system). In their first paper, the
group also simulated GHz dielectric resonators. The WiTricity
devices are coupled almost entirely with magnetic fields (the
electric fields are largely confined within capacitors inside the
devices), which is argued to make them safer than resonant
energy transfer using electric fields (most famously in Tesla
coils, whose high electric fields allow them to be used as
lightning generators), since most materials couple weakly to
magnetic fields (Kurs, 2007)
Introduction of witricity.
History of Wireless Power:
 In 1899, Sir Nikola Tesla
Proposed a method of Wireless
Power Transmission.
 As it is in Radiative mode, most
of the Power was wasted and has
less efficiency.

 The efficient midrange power

transfer concept is Witricity. In
this model source and load are
in Magnetic resonance so there
is no power loss.
 Need of Witricity:
Now a days there is a Rapid development of autonomous
electronics like Laptops, Cell-phones, House-hold robots and all
those devices typically rely on chemical energy storage(Battery)
As they are becoming daily needs to present generation, Wire
less energy transfer would be useful for many applications as
above and they need midrange energy.
Basic Principle:
The basic principle involved in Witricity concept is, Two
objects having same resonating frequency and in Magnetic
resonance at Strongly coupled regime tend to exchange energy ,
while dissipating relatively little energy to the extraneous off-
resonant objects.
 Types:
There are 3 major types of wireless energy
transfer:
• Short range; Inductive Coupling
• Medium range; Resonant Induction
• Long range; Electromagnetic Wave Power
Transfer
 Project…
There are many projects of wireless energy
transfer:
a) Haier wireless HDTV.
b) Apple wireless charger.
c) Car charging technology.
and many more…..
 Haier wireless TV….
Using the wireless and
efficient transmission
technology to good effect,
Haier has developed a
completely wireless HDTV.
Employing WiTricity and
Wireless Home Digital
Interface (WHDI), the
HDTV is made to stream
videos over 100 feet.
That’s some distance,
when you’re talking of
no wires at all,
Apple wireless
Charger…. An accurate and reliable
wireless charging concept is
the requirement of the
modern technology world.
The leading technology
innovator Apple has been
spending much time to
develop an improved method
to recharge its devices
wirelessly. That is why
several of the company’s
recent patent applications
were related to various kind
of wireless charging options.
 Car charging technology…
Toyota and WiTricity
to develop new
wireless charging
tech that requires no
contact and
WiTricity’s current
technology is
comparable to
standard Level 2 fast
charge technology,
providing up to 3.3
kilowatts of
 How safe it is….
HOW SAFE IS WITRICITY ?
Human beings or other objects placed between the
transmitter and receiver do not hinder the transmission of
power. However, does magnetic coupling or resonance
coupling have any harmful effects on humans? MIT's
researchers are quite confident that WiTricity's coupling
resonance' is safe for humans. They say that the magnetic
fields tend to interact very weakly with the biological
tissues of the body, and so are not prone to cause any
damage to any living beings.
 Future…
•
MIT's WiTricity is only 40 to 45% efficient and according to Soljacic, they
have to be twice as efficient to compete with the traditional chemical
batteries. The team's next aim is to get a robotic vacuum or a laptop
working, charging devices placed anywhere in the room and even robots on
factory floors. The researchers are also currently working on the health
issues related to this concept and have said that in another three to five
years time, they will come up with a WiTricity system for commercial use.
WiTricity, if successful will definitely change the way we live. Imagine
cellphones, laptops, digital camera's getting self charged! Wow! Let's hope
the researchers will be able to come up with the commercial system soon.
Till then, we wait in anticipation!
 Advantages…
Safe, fairly efficient, good range.
`Magnetic fields interact weakly with biological masses
(humans), and energy is only transmitted between resonating
objects. Efficiency can be increased with time; most of the
60% lost is from heat radiated from the coils. Theoretically
one stationary coil in a room could power multiple devices
with receiving coils. No more messy wires, and with
widespread enough use it could even eliminate costly batteries.
 Limitations:
☼ The resonance condition should be satisfied and if any error
exists, there is no possibility of power transfer.
☼ If there is any possibility of very strong ferromagnetic material
presence causes low power transfer due to radiation.
 The transmission of power without wires is not a theory or a mere possibility, it is
• now a reality. The electrical energy can be economically transmitted without
• wires to any terrestrial distance.

 Wireless transmission of electricity have tremendous merits like high transmission

• integrity and Low Loss (90 – 97 % efficient) and can be transmitted to any where
• in the globe and eliminate the need for an inefficient, costly, and capital intensive
• grid of cables, towers, and substations.

 The system would reduce the cost of electrical energy used by the consumer and
• get rid of the landscape of wires, cables, and transmission towers. It has
• negligible demerits like reactive power which was found insignificant and
• biologically compatible.

 It has a tremendous economic impact to human society.