Power without wires

This article presents the history of WPT and the various technologies and applications of this exciting technology. In the near future, standardization and regulation will be of importance to realizing WPT based products for commercial applications. The WPC has defined a standard for inductive coupling and members of this group have released conforming products. There are, as yet, no standards or regulation for resonant coupling and MPT technologies. In Japan, a technical forum known as Broadband Wireless Forum has been established to discuss the future of WPT. SPS researchers have also submitted a proposal for WPT to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). In the IEEE MTT Society, the Technical Committee MTT-26 Wireless Energy Transfer and Conversion was established in June, 2011 to discuss the future of WPT.

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