AutoCharge: Automatically Charge Smartphones Using a Light Beam
Did u know smartphones get automatically charged without requiring explicit effort from users!!!
whaaat..😲Yes guys you heard it right,Microsoft proposes a new approach, called AutoCharge, to explore the feasibility of automatic smartphone charging.The AutoCharge approach automatically locates a smartphone on a desk and charges it in a transparent matter from the user.
This can be achieved by methods:-
1.First, we leverage solar charging technique but use it in indoor spaces, to remotely charge a smartphone using a light beam without a wire.
2.Second, we employ an image-processing based technique to detect and track smartphones on a desk for automatic smartphone charging.
The prototype is under experiment and has not been accomplished yet 😭
The experimental prototype shows the light charger automatically identifies the smartphone in some 0.3 seconds, and proceeds to charge it almost as fast as existing wired chargers. Solar charging is a very unexpected solution for such an application, as both outdoor and indoor usage is unfeasible due to conditions such as the weak, scattered in-room lighting, or users carrying their smartphones in their pockets where no light can enter. Microsoft had to devise a method for indoor solar charging, making it work 24 hours per day. The ambitious task is accomplished by firing a straight beam of concentrated light with little scatter, which allows it to carry the necessary charge.
how does it work?
As for the image recognition part, it is facilitated by a camera that monitors a surface - for example, your desk. Algorithms detect when a smartphone in need of charge is in the eye of the camera, and if that happens to be the case, a rotating motor adjusts the direction of the charging beam so it hits the right spot.
obvious flaws:
The biggest hurdle AutoCharge needs to overcome is the lack of solar charging systems inside the phone itself. Manufacturers would need to add a special charging system into new models for it to work. Additionally, Microsoft doesn’t see the AutoCharge system replacing traditional charging methods, because it’s unlikely to be installed everywhere we go, but a home system would be convenient.
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