We so frequently
use the word “SMART” to refer any person, gadget, Idea, etc , but what it
actually means? Smart is an acronym which stands for S-specific,M-measurable,A-achievable,R-realistic,T-time-specific.It
means abridge your efforts and hard work to bring out the best results in an
easy but logical and efficient manner.
We live in a world
where smartness is overloaded,all we need is from smart people to smart phones
and smart city to smart homes.In such a phase why not take a small step to
reform our country from “INDIA” to “SMART INDIA”.
If you make a
survey and ask people out there whether they prefer a landline or a mobile
phone,then 8/10 people would probably go with the mobile phone option because
of the obvious reasons. One of the important and basic reason behind this is
that the cords have been cut. In the same manner imagine your surrounding,your
city,your country free from the overhead hanging ,the danger alarming heavily
voltage stuffed transmission lines. We always warn our kids to stay away from
the electric poles as we fear the electric shock, also many a times we observe
birds die due to severe shocks of transmission lines.
Besides these
general problems some technical problems like heating of transmission
lines,power loss, power theft,etcalso exist. Even the weather conditions hamper
the transmission system.
Well to avoid or
reduce these problems a wonderful concept of Wireless Power Transmission
(WPT) or wireless transmission of
electricity(witricity) can be implemented .WPT concept was first invented and conceived by the
commonly known as Father of wireless- Nikola Tesla in 1892. Further research
and study is still being continued.
Witricity can be
implemented at domestic level i.e. restricted to our homes may be for charging
devices,running equipments with less power requirement , etc by using the technique of 1)mutual
induction or 2) Magnetic resonant coupling .Other domestic applications are in
artificial cardiac pacemakers, charging of electric vehicles, RFID tags. On
large scale also it can be applied by using the laser beam technology or the
concept of microwave power transmission. The solar power satellites,wireless
powered drone aircraft are an important applications of WPT on large scale.
The problems
discussed above are cured in WPT. The
other advantages are power can be delivered in any direction i.e.
omnidirectional, the cost of conductors is reduced to zero, any human
interference b/w the transmitter and receiver neither harms the person nor
hampers the transmission process if the WPT is applied under the safety level
strengths of radiations.
But as a coin has
two sides there are also some drawbacks of this techniques which we can
overcome by the study , research and experiments in this aspect. Once this is
achieved it will be a boon for the society to free ourselves from the tangles
wires thus improving the view of our country. This can prove a smart step ,taken
in a smart way for
a smart INDIA.
