Crowdsharing Wireless Energy Services

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new ecosystem for sharing wireless energy among IoT devices using energy harvesting, wireless power transfer, and crowdsourcing, aiming to provide a sustainable and flexible energy solution.

Contribution

It presents a novel framework for crowdsharing wireless energy in IoT environments, combining energy harvesting, transfer, and crowdsourcing techniques.

Findings

Proposes a comprehensive energy crowdsharing framework.

Identifies open challenges and potential solutions.

Highlights the potential for green, ubiquitous IoT energy provisioning.

Abstract

We propose a novel self-sustained ecosystem for energy sharing in the IoT environment. We leverage energy harvesting, wireless power transfer, and crowdsourcing that facilitate the development of an energy crowdsharing framework to charge IoT devices. The ubiquity of IoT devices, coupled with the potential ability for sharing energy, provides new and exciting opportunities to crowdsource wireless energy, thus enabling a green alternative for powering IoT devices anytime and anywhere. We discuss the crowdsharing of energy services, open challenges, and proposed solutions.