Wireless Power

• As the Internet of Things (IoT) peaks in the next five years, electromagnetic pollution will become the new public health issue.
• Devices for 5G NR low- and mid-band took off as the overall market grew to US$1 billion in 2018: The market will continue to climb nearly US$2 billion by 2024.
• Led by smart speakers, the wireless charging enabled smart home market is expected to grow to more than 100 million units in 2028.
• The wireless power market as a whole is expected to grow to one billion receiver units shipped by 2020.
• In-building wireless penetration in the vast middle-sized and enterprise verticals will increase dramatically and account for more than half of in-building small cell shipments in 2021.
• Asia pacific is expected as a prominent region for wireless charging market due to growing number of consumer electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops and wearable devices.
• The world market for wireless charging is expected to exceed 350 million enabled receiver units shipped in 2017.
• The wireless sensor network market in APAC is expected to grow at a high rate between 2017 and 2023.
• In 2017, there will be a move towards more connectivity in industry using LoRa at the low end or 60 GHz wireless technology at the high end.
• Wireless charging will add a significant amount of easy usability for EV drivers who don't want to be bothered with plugging in and unplugging their cars.
• Resonant wireless charging will be a good choice once chips supporting the technology become more widely available.
• The advent of low-power wide area and short-range networks purpose-designed for IoT will account for 65% of wireless connections in five years.
• Temperature sensors are expected to lead the energy harvesting market for wireless sensor network.
• Getting full duplex on a chip to improve key aspects of existing wireless systems into cellphones will probably take about five years.
• Wireless charging on a par with conventional plug-in charging could have major implications for the adoption of electric vehicles.
• Solar power, water purification systems, and wireless Internet will outfit the buildings-with the goal of making them available to the rest of the community if other natural disasters arise in the future.
• Over 40% of IoT devices will transmit data to gateways or other nearby devices using low-power wireless personal-area networking technologies.
• 5G, the latest generation of mobile wireless, will accelerate the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), which in turn will allow us to better monitor energy consumption through an estimated 4.1 billion cellular IoT connections globally by 2024.
• Global wireless power receivers and transmitters shipments will continue to grow to approximately 2.1 billion units in 2023.
• Annual unit shipments for wireless power receivers and transmitters across all applications are forecast to grow from 450 million units in 2017 to more than 2.2 billion units in 2023.
• Low-power wireless networks are also well suited for connecting many wearable devices, which need to be highly power-efficient to maximize battery life: Overall, 2018 will bring the dream of universal connectivity a step closer to reality.
• Power saving demos at CES 2018 will include wireless charging for phones, tablets and wearables.

Last updated: 10 January 2021