Energizing 5G: Near- and Far-Field Wireless Energy and Data Trantransfer as an Enabling Technology for the 5G IoT

Abstract

We are surrounded in our daily lives by a multitude of small, relatively inexpensive computing devices, many equipped with communication and sensing features. From these has evolved the concept of "pervasive intelligence" [1], [2], a basis from we can envision our future world as an Internet of Things/Internet of Everything (IoT/IoE), in terms of both a consumer IoT/IoE (interconnected devices within an individual's environment) and the Industrial IoT (interconnectedness to improve business-to-business services, mainly through machineto-machine interactions) [3].