Xiaomi has announced Mi Air Charge, a revolutionary new wireless charging technology that can charge your electronic devices remotely within a radius of several meters. “It’s not science fiction,” Xiaomi says in a weblog post describing what it is calling a “bold attempt to turn the whole house ‘truly’ wireless.” Using a set of proprietary hardware, Xiaomi has reimagined almost everything we believed we knew about wireless charging and is working towards a future with no any cables or wireless charging stands.
Xiaomi has constructed a transmitter, roughly the size of a Mi Air Purifier, which comes outfitted with 5 phase interference antennas to ‘accurately’ detect your phone’s place even though an additional array of 144 antennas transmits millimeter-wide waves straight to the phone by way of beamforming to charge it ‘over-the-air’.
At this point, it is protected to assume this technologies will work with Xiaomi phones—only—which, in the future, will pack a pair of their personal antenna arrays, a devoted beacon antenna to broadcast their place and getting antennas to convert the millimeter wave signal into electric power to facilitate charging.
We’re excited to bring you the remote charging technologies – Mi Air Charge Technology! Charge many devices simultaneously even though you happen to be gaming, walking about or even when something’s in the way, no strings attached. Another giant leap forward in wireless charging technologies! pic.twitter.com/wEoB10wOQ2
— Xiaomi (@Xiaomi) January 29, 2021
The technologies in its existing generation is capable of 5W remote charging a single device inside quite a few meters. It can also charge many devices at the identical time. But the true ‘breakthrough’ bit, in our opinion, is the claim that “even physical obstacles do not reduce the charging efficiency.”
Xiaomi is going so far as to say smartwatches, bracelets and other wearable devices will also be in a position to use Mi Air Charge in the ‘near’ future and “soon our living room devices, including speakers, desk lamps and other small smart home products, will all be built upon a wireless power supply design, completely free of wires, making our living rooms truly wireless.”
The technologies is not prepared for prime time but, which signifies Xiaomi is not prepared to bring it to marketplace anytime quickly. There is also no assure if it will bring it to marketplace at all, in its existing kind at least, but its vision is certainly one-of-its-type and straight from the future. It will be fascinating to see how far Xiaomi can take this, and how quickly, but most importantly, how extended ahead of we see it coming to life in our living rooms.