Why WYSIPS is special?
If you have ever used wireless chargers you must be knowing that it is another kind of botheration. You are still restricted and confined up to the point your charger base wire goes. On top of it, there is hardly any industry standard in this regard. Wireless chargers support phone models that they are meant for. What about getting a true freedom of charging? It’s around the corner now. This new technology is coming to your rescue.
WYSIPS is the abbreviation of What You See Is Photovoltaic Surface. Technology Blog is excited about this technology and published a detailed review here. SunPartner , France, has developed transparent 300-micron-thick solar cell or WYSIPS Crystal film. This is capable of turning the conventional battery and power generation concept upside down.
The main component of this new technology is kind of transparent material (90% transparent, and less than 0.5mm thick) and can be installed beneath any glass screen. The transparent material is a combination of micro-lenses and photovoltaic materials in a combined way. The basis of Wysips® components originated from the concept of lenticular images (The images which are angle dependent). It allows observers to see different images from different viewing angle
Therefore, the same surface or screen can be utilized for various purposes. Seeing this possibility, SunPartner Technologies and 3M came together with the idea of using smartphone screens for power generation and data transfer purpose. SunPartner is supposed to produce the WYSIPS surface and 3M is supposed to produce the adhesive to put it on the screen.
Wisps are capable to deliver 5.8MW per square centimeter, and SunPartners believe that they will be able to double that output shortly. This has the straight potential of extending the battery life by more than 20 percent and this may prove crucial for heavy Smartphone users. How many of you felt the need of having a little bit of extra juice at the day end before you place the phone for charging at night? One of the major attractive features is the inexpensiveness of the technology, which is pegged at less than 1 USD per 4 inches of material.
Most attractive part of this 20 percent changing enhancement is the possibility of running bigger units like E-Ink devices of Kindle, Nook, or small watch. For them, this extra juice can entirely eliminate the need of physical charging for the day
Recently Sun Partner Technologies and Oledcomm come together declaring a partnership involving life. This will probably be called as WYSIPS Connect. Life, or Light Fidelity, simply means communicating with light (VLC-Visible Light Communication). Here, data are transmitted by visible light waves, and NOT by infrared waves.
But why there is so much so much hullabaloo about Li-Fi? It is simply because Li-Fi is faster and more secure when compared to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Li-Fi can attain speeds up to 3.5 gigabits per color. This means a Red-Green-Blue (RGB) LED light together will be able produce Li-Fi speeds of up to 10.5gbps, or 10 times faster than Wi-Fi.
Lastly, but not the least, there are challenges in the way. Here, we are talking about multiple layers and multiple angles. This obviously has something to do with the limitation of viewing angles. There are apprehensions that this layer will blur the screen from a wider viewing angle.
May be, with the advent of super retina displays this problem may not be that critical, but we still have to wait and see the commercial application of WYSIPS. Let there be light…for charging and data transfer.
Author: Technology Blog
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