A company by the name of Yank Technologies has taken to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to showcase what the future of in-car wireless charging could look like.
Many new cars offer Qi wireless charging pads but Yank’s solution is far more versatile. The technology is based on three-dimensional antenna arrays and advanced amplifier developments and allows you to charge up a device from anywhere in the car. It is truly wireless and doesn’t require any physical contact between a phone and a charging pad.
All that’s required is for the phone to support wireless charging or for a wireless charging adapter to be plugged into a device. As the Yank charger is wireless and doesn’t feature a charging pad, it can provide juice to multiple devices at one. It could even be used to power various in-built vehicle components like the key fob and electric wing mirrors.
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While some may be concerned the radio waves used in the charging system could cause harm, Yank says its charging system emits just 0.06 watts per kilogram of radio-wave radiation as measured by the Federal Communications Commission. By comparison, a cell phone placed to one’s ear emits between 1.1 and 1.5 watts per kilogram. The system offers 30 watts of charging power.
“Your phones have gigahertz antennas, such as Wi-Fi. Our technology operates in the low megahertz ISM [frequency] bands,” the company describes. “The higher the frequency, the higher your electric field levels typically are, and in turn the more harmful the radiation pattern typically becomes. Thus, even though we are transmitting more power than a phone, it is at a much longer wavelength so it is actually a safer radiation exposure.”
