ICE seminar: « Zero Energy Devices for 6G and Ambient IoT »
Abstract
Recently, a new type of device, called Ambient Internet of Things (Ambient IoT) device has been introduced for study and discussion at the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) of standardisation of mobile networks. This novel type of device is energy-autonomous, it does not need its battery to be replaced or charged manually. It harvests ambient energy to power itself and connect to the mobile network. Orange is currently actively exploring such kind of novel device to provide IoT services in a way that is sustainable economically, environmentally and societally, following the guidelines of the recently finished European Flagship Project Hexa-X II on 6G. Indeed, Orange Zero-Energy Devices (ZED) prototypes harvest ambient indoor and outdoor light to power themselves. They do not generate additional waves, instead they backscatter waves from the ambient Orange commercial mobile network and commercial smartphones, to broadcast their messages. Orange assesses these ZEDs, through simulations and experiments on the field, for the two use cases: (1) asset-tracking in outdoor thanks to ZED tags and (2)indoor self-positioning of smartphones thanks to ZED beacons.
Bio
Dr. Dinh-Thuy PHAN HUY is currently the Referent of Orange Expertise/Future Networks community of experts at Orange /Innovation /Networks. She is also a researcher on Backscattering technologies and on Artificial Intelligence in future networks. She received the degree in engineering from Supelec, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics and telecommunications from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Rennes, France, in 2015. In 2001, she joined France Telecom R&D (now Orange Innovation), Châtillon, France. She has contributed to and led several collaborative research projects on 5G. Her research interests include wireless communications and 6G. She has been involved in Hexa-x EU II project on 6G on Zero-Energy Device, and in RISE-6G EU project (2021-2023) on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces workpackage leader on sustainability and security, and IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on RIS (as industry liaison officer). She is co-inventor of more than 40 patents. She is an an IEEE senior member, and the recipient of several best paper awards from IEEE and EURASIP. She received the “Prix Irène Joliot Curie 2018 – catégorie Femme-Recherche-Entreprise” from the French Ministry of Education and Research. She is the first Orange Fellow.