Sustainable electronics based on Wireless Power Transfer techniques: some contributions from the COST ACTION IC1301

Wireless Power Transmission (WPT) for sutainable electronics (WIPE) focus mainly the efficient design for circuits, systems and strategies specially tailored for battery-less systems, battery-free sensors, passive RFID, Near Field Communications (NFC). WIPE is nothing but a set of enabling technologies aimed to foster the internet of things (IoT). Main applications of WIPE techniques are found in different areas such as: Healthcare, Security, Agriculture, Vehicular Industry, Sports and Gaming, Aerospace Industry, Flexible Manufacturing Industry, Structural Health Monitoring.
The European COST action IC1301 (http://www.cost-ic1301.org) brings together RF and mixed-signal circuit and system designers as well as material sciences engineers, from academia and industry with different backgrounds to:
1. Provide enhanced circuit and subsystem solutions to increase the efficiency in WPT;
2. Investigate the use of novel materials and technologies that allow minimizing cost and maximizing integration of the electronics with the targeted applications;
3. Contribute to standardization and regulation issues related to this research area.
This work aims to present to the audience some results issued from this research network after four years of cooperative activities.