DocumentCode
2064064
Title
An improved design of a wireless keyboard powered by solar cells and a large capacitor
Author
Bai, Ying-Wen ; Yang, Ming-Yuan
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Fu Jen Catholic Univ., Taipei
fYear
2008
fDate
14-16 April 2008
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
This paper mainly proposes an improved design of a wireless keyboard system by analyzing the hardware characteristics of each of its modules with the goal of reducing the power consumption of the wireless keyboard. In our experiment we have set the wireless keyboard at a fixed active voltage of 2.2 V with the lowest possible current consumption. The system can extend the working hours by 1.94 times and standby hours by 5.67 times. Instead of the memory effect of the rechargeable battery, our design uses a non-memory self-sufficient component of a 15 Farad 4.6 V large capacitor, rechargeable up to more than 100,000 times, as our energy storage unit which supplies the power for the whole wireless keyboard in which the power exhaustion probability is less than 1 % as it uses solar cells of 9.7 cm times 5.8 cm.
Keywords
capacitors; computer power supplies; keyboards; solar cells; large capacitor; nonmemory self-sufficient component; solar cells; voltage 4.6 V; wireless keyboard; Batteries; Capacitors; Energy consumption; Hardware; Keyboards; Microcontrollers; Photovoltaic cells; Power supplies; Radio frequency; Voltage; Large Capacitor; Power Consumption; Queuing Model; Solar Cells; Wireless Keyboard;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Consumer Electronics, 2008. ISCE 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Vilamoura
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2422-1
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-2422-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559541
Filename
4559541
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