Many cell phones today don’t owe much to a computer in terms of performance, but a difficulty in this market is battery life. Fast charging alleviates this problem, but the industry is already studying technologies that, in the perhaps not-too-distant future, could overcome this obstacle. For now, wireless remote charging systems are prototyped to work with small IoT devices, but companies like Oppo already see a future where they can reach more devices.
Oppo has released a technical manual in which it describes its infrared induction system to power home intelligence gadgets.
These devices collect energy through a radio frequency system transmitted by telephone towers, television towers, FM signal, and others capable of somehow accessing the home terminal’s connections — such as even Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. With this, the company believes that even some IoT items will be able to operate without battery in the future, as they usually have a fixed position in the user’s home.
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The application for more popular products, such as smart watches or even smartphones, is not ruled out. Incidentally, this would be a welcome novelty that could solve the main problem of the accessory. Today, even the most high-end smartwatches require daily charging, which is far from ideal for a wristwatch. If it were possible to recharge it just by being at home, the user would no longer have the almost Herculean task of taking the device off and on the arm every day.
Oppo is not the first
There would also be positive sustainable changes if the system gained commercial scale in the future. Removing batteries from a series of products from the market would prevent them from being disposed of in nature in the future.
It is worth remembering that Oppo is not the first manufacturer to test this technology. Motorola has already publicly demonstrated a similar system, as has Xiaomi. This seems to be a path in which the development teams of telephony brands should bet in the coming years. But it is too early for projections involving the commercial production of ecosystems that operate in this way.
For now, Samsung may emerge launching a control that recharges by Wi-Fi waves. The accessory is part of the brand’s investments in increasing the sustainability of its products, and succeeds the control of the 2021 TVs that recharged by solar energy, and should be delivered together with most of the televisions sold by the brand this year.
