Creating a smart chip that charges itself with radio waves

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com - Dutch researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have created a smart chip that derives its energy from radio waves, which it uses to transmit information.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> These microchips can help support the emerging “internet of things” industry – an evolving concept of the internet where all things in our lives have internet connectivity – as smart chips that measure temperature, light and air pollution are increasingly being used in cities, smart homes and offices.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The new chip measures two square millimeters in size and weighs 1.6 milligrams, and includes an antenna sensor horn that captures power from a wireless router. One of the most important problems facing the use of slides is making them free from the charging battery.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The chip currently operates within a narrow range of just 2.5 centimeters, but the researchers hope to expand this range to one metre.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The most important characteristic of these chips is that they are very cheap, as the cost of each of them does not exceed 20 cents, <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">and it is expected that cities around the world will include 1.6 billion things related to the Internet, 518 million smart buildings, and one billion smart homes in 2016.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>