System and Method for Wirelessly Powering a Sensor in a Bio-Processing Environment
DRIVE
March 5, 2020
A bio-processing system () for wirelessly powering one or more sensors (-) is presented. The system () includes bio-processing units (-), process supporting devices (-), energy sources (-), and sensors (-) including an energy harvesting unit () and an energy storage unit (). The system () includes a power management subsystem () wirelessly coupled to the sensors (-) and including a processor () configured to wirelessly monitor energy consumption of the sensors (-) and a level of energy stored in corresponding energy storage units (), select at least one sensor (-) based on the energy consumption of the sensors (-) and corresponding levels of energy stored in the energy storage units (), and identify at least one active energy source (-) as a power source, where the identified power source is configured to wirelessly transfer power to the selected sensor (-).
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