Wireless Powering Internet of Things with UAVs: Challenges and Opportunities

Yalin Liu; Hong Ning Dai; Qubeijian Wang; Muhammad Imran; Nadra Guizani

doi:10.1109/MNET.013.2000385

Wireless Powering Internet of Things with UAVs: Challenges and Opportunities

Yalin Liu, Hong Ning Dai, Qubeijian Wang, Muhammad Imran, Nadra Guizani

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to overcome the deployment constraint of The Internet of Things (IoT) in remote or rural areas. Wirelessly powered communications (WPC) can address the battery limitation of IoT devices through transferring wireless power to IoT devices. The integration of UAVs and WPC, namely UAV-enabled wireless powering IoT (Ue-WPI-o T) can greatly extend the IoT applications from cities to remote or rural areas. In this article, we present a state-of-the-art overview of Ue-WPIoT by first illustrating the working flow of Ue-WPIoT and discussing the challenges. We then introduce the enabling technologies in realizing Ue-WPI-oT. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the enabling technologies in Ue-WPIoT. We finally outline the future directions and open issues.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	146-152
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Network
Volume	36
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MNET.013.2000385
Publication status	Published - Mar 2022

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