[arunabh010]

Back in 2012, I picked up energy harvesting as one of my major project for wireless communications masters at NUS. Towards the end of masters I came up with a commercial idea of using energy harvesting for charging. Thus for summer that year, I ended up attending founders institute with idea of somehow commercializing wireless energy transfer. We got a team of friends, with my roommate PhD in physics, and a friend from electronics, and another friend from MS- mechatronics.

I proposed using wireless charging at short distance, after meandering for weeks with best use case, we ended up pursuing wireless charging for robots. Thus FLUXCHARGE1 came into existence.

When we realized that patent would be a major issue, which at that time was with Witricity2, we had to give up on the idea.

I did a quick homework of the situation and things haven’t changed much in four years. There are two major companies now pursuing it, (as mentioned here) http://www.energous.com/ http://www.ossia.com/

Also from R&D point of view my prof (Dr. Rui Zhang) from NUS is still pursuing how to do wireless energy transfer5

Reference 1. http://www.slideshare.net/arunabh010/fluxcharge-wireless-cha... 2. http://witricity.com/ 3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12508409 4. http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devic... 5. https://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/stfpage/elezhang/publication_SWIP...