Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SWIPT-MED (SWIPT- MED: Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer for Medical Implants)
Berichtszeitraum: 2021-10-01 bis 2023-09-30
Most of the AIMDs are equipped with wireless communication systems for data transfer, device monitoring and reprogramming. In this regard, we have proposed that energy harvesting from radio frequency (RF) signals for a wireless communication system provides a new paradigm called Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transmission (SWIPT)that allows the wireless implant nodes to recharge their batteries from the RF data signals.
In the literature, SWIPT has been studied for in-door and outdoor environment and has investigated transmission of high energy levels with large antenna dimensions for harvesting energy. There have been no studies in the literature for investigating SWIPT within the human body. So, my research project have explored the potential of SWIPT for the human body environment.
The major objectives of the project include: 1) optimum energy-capacity function and the end-to-end analytical model of SWIPT for deep implants; 2) hardware design of SWIPT for implant communication systems; and 3) feasibility of the novel SWIPT architecture for medical implant technology by in-vitro liquid phantom models and in-vivo living animal experimental studies. The new fundamental knowledge developed from the project could be applied to multiple other domains.