Safe and Secure Wireless Power Transfer Networks: Challenges and Opportunities in RF-Based Systems
It identifies critical problems for embedded device systems, but is incremental as it focuses on reviewing challenges rather than proposing new solutions.
The paper addresses the overlooked safety and security issues in RF-based wireless power transfer networks, highlighting their importance for widespread adoption and efficient operation.
RF-based wireless power transfer networks (WPTNs) are deployed to transfer power to embedded devices over the air via RF waves. Up until now, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted by researchers to design WPTNs that maximize several objectives such as harvested power, energy outage and charging delay. However, inherent security and safety issues are generally overlooked and these need to be solved if WPTNs are to be become widespread. This article focuses on safety and security problems related WPTNs and highlight their cruciality in terms of efficient and dependable operation of RF-based WPTNs. We provide a overview of new research opportunities in this emerging domain.