Energous Eyes Near-, Mid-Field Wireless Charging Products This Year, With FCC OK
Energous made “significant progress” toward bringing its RF wireless charging technology to market, CEO Stephen Rizzone told investors. The company, with investments of $10 million and $15 million from partner Dialog Semiconductor, is on track to deliver its first commercial-scale…
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quantities of silicon to small-scale, early adopter customers this year, he said. In a market slow to take off with many companies and technologies, Energous’ edge is the ability to send “significant power at a distance to focused receivers all under software control, safely, and within the current rules and regulations in the regulatory environment,” said Rizzone. The company positions the technology toward mobile devices including smartphones. The company completed the approval process with the FCC two months ago for through-the-air charging of any wireless device, putting a process in place for companies to submit products for approval, said Rizzone. “We didn’t want to have to effect a rule change because it takes potentially years.”