Efficient Distributed Wireless Power Transfer System for Multiple Wearable Sensors through Textile Coil Array

Abstract

When it is necessary to detect various physiological signals of the human body, clothing embroidered with near-field effect patterns can be used as a long-term power supply medium to supply power to long-distance transmitters and receivers to form a wireless power supply system. The proposed system uses an optimized parallel circuit to achieve a power transfer efficiency of more than five times higher than that of the existing series circuit. The power transfer efficiency of simultaneously supplying energy to multiple sensors is increased higher than five times and even more when only one sensor is coupled. When powering eight sensors at the same time, the power transmission efficiency can reach 25.1%. Even when eight sensors powered by the coupled textile coils are reduced to one, the power transfer efficiency of the whole system can reach 13.21%. Additionally, the proposed system is also applicable when the number of sensors ranges from 2 to 12.