New Tech allows your Mobile Devices to Share Battery Power

Posted on October 23, 2017 by

Are you one of those who always worry about battery life all day long? There is good news for you that the new tech now let your mobile gadgets share battery power to elongate the life of your battery! However, it is noteworthy that an average technology and tech mobile aficionado has to charge a minimum of five devices or more on a regular basis, between mobile phone, fitness tracker, smart watch, laptop and a camera.

The worst and frustrating thing is when something happens to the battery and you have got a completely charged gadget lying right next to it, without a way of relocating that power from one to another.

Recent news made it known that researchers who hailed from the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the Massachusetts Amherst University have come up with a way out of this global problem.

These researchers have come up with a system that can let diminutive mobile devices avail the benefit of battery clout in bigger gadgets close by for communication. It is known as Bradio – an abbreviation for braid of radios, and can elongate the life of a battery hundreds of times in some cases.

Deepak Ganesan who was the leader of the research team opined that people normally take the capacity to devolve storage and calculation from their relatively limited PCs to the source-rich cloud for granted in most cases.

He stressed further that, it is sensible that gadgets should have the ability to offload the quantity of power they consume for communication to those devices with additional energy.

How It Works

The team presented a paper exhibiting how this development works at the conference of the Association for Computing Machinery’s special interest group on data communication (SIGCOMM) in Florianópolis, Brazil.

As a matter of fact, the session is basically a jazzed-up adaptation of Bluetooth, with the exemption of the receiving device spending energy to get data off the sending device, instead of the other way round – just a little like an RFID chip. This makes a lot of sense, as the receiving devices have the propensity to have larger batteries more than senders.

For instance, the phone performs the majority of the work instead of the tracker, by the time a fitness tracker needs its data to be sent to your phone, and this extends the battery life of the tracker significantly.

To make things clear, the results of the finding covers the cost of transmitting data or communication only, according to the statement of Pan Hu – a member of the research team.

Consequently, the sensors may clearly dominate the entire power consumption and reduce the advantages of optimizing the radio, in a situation where a radio is transmitting from a camera that consumes a lot of milliwatts in the course of using its sensor.

This is a great development and opportunity as far as the tech mobile world is concerned!