The present disclosure relates to electronic transmitters, and more particularly to transmitters for wireless power transmission.
There are many tracking systems that have evolved for observing, controlling, monitoring, and identifying living beings or objects. The tracking systems follows the movement of living beings and objects for supplying a timely ordered sequence of respective location data to a model; for example, a tracking system that depicts the motion of an animal through a suitable interface such as a display,
Some of the systems utilized for tracking living beings or objects may be a GPS (Global Positioning System) and a Real-time Locating System which may be integrated or adapted to suitable devices. Usually, these tracking systems applied in devices may include a battery, a signal receiver, and a transmitter. However, these tracking devices may not result successful due to the battery life charge may not last for sufficient time and the user may be forced to plug it in or remove the battery from the device to gain charge and achieve the tracking purpose. Furthermore, these tracking devices may result expensive when other services are adapted, such as statistics reports.
Charging the battery or plug in to a power source may result a tedious activity and may represent a burden to users. Current solutions to this problem may include inductive pads which may employ magnetic induction or resonating coils. Nevertheless, such a solution may still require that these tracking devices may have to be placed in a specific place for powering. Thus, tracking devices during charging may not be portable.
For the foregoing reasons, there is a. need for cost-effective wireless power transmission system where these tracking devices may be powered without requiring extra chargers or plugs, and where the functionality of this tracking devices may not be compromised.
The present disclosure describes a wireless tracking system for tracking, controlling, monitoring, and identifying living beings and objects using wireless power transmission on a pocket forming. The following wireless tracking system may operate by having one transmitter and one or more receivers adapted or integrated to a living being and objects.
In an embodiment, a description of pocket-forming methodology using at least one transmitter and at least one receiver may be provided.
In another embodiment, a transmitter suitable for pocket-forming including at least two antenna elements may be provided, and a receiver suitable for pocket forming including at least one antenna element may be provided.
In a further embodiment, wireless tracking system may be used determining the location of objects or living beings by using a wireless power transmission on pocket-forming.
In an even further embodiment, in order to track the location of a determined living being or object, a cloud-based service may be suitable for finding the location of receiver.
Yet, in another embodiment, wireless tracking system may be programmed to send notifications when living beings or objects are not in the place where it/she/he has to be.
Furthermore, wireless tracking system may optionally operate when receiver may include at least one audio component, such as a speaker or microphone.
Alternatively, in the wireless tracking system, transmitter may be connected to an alarm system.
The embodiments described in the following disclosure may provide an improved wireless tracking system for observing, controlling, monitoring, and identifying living beings and objects from any suitable device and/or place. Furthermore, the wireless tracking system may be extendable by integrating a variety of services that a user may require to supervise determined living beings or objects. In addition the workload of wireless tracking system may not be compromised by problems of power charging, because transmitter may be responsible to provide power or charge when receiver may require, without having to remove any battery or plug in to a power source.
These and other advantages of the present disclosure may be evident to those skilled in the art, or may become evident upon reading the detailed description of the prefer embodiment, as shown in the accompanying drawings.
“Pocket-forming” may refer to generating two or more RE waves Which converge in 3-d space, forming controlled constructive and destructive interference patterns.
“Pockets of energy” may refer to areas or regions of space where energy or power may accumulate in the form of constructive interference patterns of RF waves.
“Transmitter” may refer to a device, including a chip which may generate two or more RF signals, at least one RF signal being phase Shifted and gain adjusted with respect to other RF signals, substantially all of which pass through one or more RF antenna such that focused RF signals are directed to a target.
“Receiver” may refer to a device which may include at least one antenna, at least one rectifying circuit and at least one power converter for powering or charging an electronic device using RF waves.
“Cloud-based service” may refer to services or resources made available to users on demand via the Internet which
The present invention can be better understood by referring to the following figures. The components in the figures are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustrating the principles of the disclosure. In the figures, reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the different views.
In the following detailed description, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof. In the drawings, which are not to scale or to proportion, similar symbols typically identify similar components, unless context dictates otherwise. The illustrative embodiments described in the detailed description, drawings and claims, are not meant to be limiting. Other embodiments may be used and/or and other changes may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the present disclosure.
In some embodiments, receiver 108 may be implemented externally to electronic devices in the form of cases, e.g. camera cases, phone cases and the like which may connect trough suitable and well known in the art techniques such as universal serial bus (USB). In other embodiments, receiver 108 may be embedded within electronic devices.
In another embodiments, receiver 108 may he implemented in tracking systems for observing, following, and recording the movement of people, animals, or objects in determined period of time. Receivers 108 may be adapted to living beings or objects in a variety of forms such as including receivers 108 in bracelets, necklaces, belts, rings, ear chips, and watches, among others. In addition, the implementation of receiver 108 in tracking systems may be complemented with the use of a transmitter 102 which may he employed for locating receiver 108 through RF waves 104. Furthermore, receiver 108 along with transmitter 102 may allow that tracking systems may not be interrupted; due to receiver 108 may always be charged or powered by RF waves 104. Alternatively, receiver 108 may be adapted to GPS, real-time location systems or other existent tracking systems for finding, monitoring and controlling the location of living beings such as animals or humans, and/or the location of objects such as cars, electronic devices, and commodities, among others.
Receiver 108 may communicate with transmitter 102 by generating a short signal (e.g., RF) through antenna elements 204 in order to locate its position with respect to the transmitter 101 Receiver 108 may utilize at least one communications component 210, which may enable receiver 108 to communicate with other devices or components. Communications component 222 may enable receiver 108 to communicate using a wireless protocol. As described in
While transmitter 102 may charge or power receiver 108, micro-controller 208 (from transmitter 102) may be able to process the information provided by communications component 222 from receiver 108, as described above. This information may be repeatedly uploaded to a cloud-based service 306 to be stored in a database in determined intervals of time. Through data stored in database, the information may be read through a suitable interface such as computer software from any suitable computing device and from any suitable location. Transmitter 102 may use a unique identifier of receiver 108 for identifying and tracking electronic device 304 from other devices. The unique identifier of receiver 108 may be according to the type of communications component 210 that may be used in receiver 108; for example, if a Wi-Fi protocol is used, the MAC address may be the unique identifier. This unique identifier may allow the information of electronic device 304 with receiver 108 to be mapped and stored in the database stored in cloud-based service 306. Other unique identifiers may include International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers, Which usually comprise a 15-digit unique identifier associated with all GSM, UMTS and LTE network mobile users; Unique Device ID (UDID) from iPhones, iPads and IPods, comprising a combination of 40 numbers and letters set by Apple; Android ID, which is set by Google and created when a user first boots up the device; or International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), which is a unique identification associated. with the subscriber identity module (SIM). Furthermore, user may be able to obtain user credentials to access the database stored in a private or public cloud-based service 306 to obtain the information of receiver 108. In this embodiment, cloud-based service 306 may be public when the service, provided by the same transmitter 102 or wireless manufacturer, is utilized in the public network by using only the user credentials for obtaining the desired information. And, cloud-based service 306 may be private When transmitter 102 may be adapted to a private network that has more restrictions besides user credentials.
In another embodiment, in order to track the location of a determined living being or object, a cloud-based service 306 may be suitable for finding the location of receiver 108. For example, in
Yet, in another embodiment, wireless tracking system 300 may be programmed to send notifications when living beings or objects are not in the place where it/she/be has to be. For example, if a cat is not at owner's home, a notification such as an interactive message may be sent to a cellphone notifying that the cat is not at home. This interactive message service may be adapted to cloud-based service 306 as an extra service. The interactive message may be optionally sent to an e-mail or to a computer software as it may be desired. Furthermore, additional information may be included in the interactive message such as current location, time, battery level of receiver 108, among other type of data.
Yet, in another embodiment, wireless tracking system 300, may operate when receiver 108 may include at least one audio component, such as a speaker or microphone, which may enable location determination via sonic triangulation or other such methods.
Yet, in another embodiment, transmitter 102 may be connected to an alarm system which may he activated when receiver 108 is not located in the place where it has to be.
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Subsequently, the owner of dog 402 receives a message notification informing that his/her dog 402 is outside second room 410. When dog 402 arrived at second room 410, receiver 108 received RF waves 104 from second transmitter 414, while this second transmitter 414 detects the presence of a new receiver 108 and uploads the location and time to database stored in the public cloud-based service 306. Afterwards, the owner of dog 402 accesses public cloud-based service 306 through a smartphone application for tracking the location of dog 402. The owner may have his/her credentials to access cloud-based service 306, where the user account is mapped with MAC address of first transmitter 412 and receiver 108. In the cloud-based service 306 is displayed the locations with determined times where dog 402 has been during its absence from first room 408, using the MAC address of receiver 108. Finally, the owner is now capable to rescue his/her dog 402 by knowing the current location where dog 402 is.
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If one or more generators are illegally subtracted from cellar facility, transmitter 102 activates an alarm and notifies a security guard through an interactive message informing that one or more generators 602 are being stolen. Security guard accesses to a cloud-based service 306 through an application and identifies generators 602 that were stolen through UUID of each electronic tag 606. Security guard receive another interactive message informing the current location of the stolen generators 602, in which this information was obtained when receivers 108 from electronic tags 606 receive RF waves 104 from other transmitter 102. This other transmitter 102 may uploaded the information of the current location of the stolen generators, allowing the guard finding these generators 602.
While various aspects and embodiments have been disclosed herein, other aspects and embodiments may be contemplated. The various aspects and embodiments disclosed herein are for purposes of illustration and are not intended to be limiting, with the true scope and spirit being indicated by the following claims.
The present disclosure is related to U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. Nos. 13/891,430 filed May 10, 2013, entitled “Methodology For Pocket-forming” and 13/925,469 filed Jun. 24, 2013, entitled “Methodology for Multiple Pocket-Forming” the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by these references.