Advantages
- Increase convenience and ubiquity for charging of everyday devices by eliminating the need for a power cord or
battery replacement
- Reducing cost associated with maintaining mechanical connectors.
- Facilitating safe powering or charging devices that need to remain sterile or hermetically sealed (waterproof).
- Eliminates the need for disposable batteries to boost environmental friendliness.
- Utilises grid power to exponentially reduce costs and environmental footprint vis-a-vis manufacturing,
transporting, and using batteries based on traditional electrochemistries.
- Make devices safer by eliminating the sparking hazard associated with conductive interconnections, and by
making them watertight and explosion proof by eliminating connector headers and wires that run through
roofs, walls or other barriers (even skin tissue).
- Reduces system cost by leveraging the ability to power multiple devices from a single source resonator.
- Reduces need for evasive surgeries if heart pumps and other medical equipment can be charged wirelessly.
(Thoratec and WITricity)
- Empower retail monitoring of consumer habits and practices. (Powermat's cloud based management system)
- Decrease of contamination in hygiene sensitive environments.
- Optimises unmanned droned capabilities by allowing laser-based recharge of drones midflight. (Currently
being developed Lockheed Martin)
- Enhances soldier well-being as wireless charging technology could potentially reduce an estimated 40 pounds
of battery soldiers carry when on missions.
- Enable unmanned submarine charging in deep-sea conditions or in areas unsafe to run wires.