Philips Innovation Services is an Engineering firm within Philips. They provide resources and services to other business units within Philips and to clients outside of Philips. The Electronic Products & Systems department focuses on product development. Philips Lighting develops lighting products and was looking for a way to connect sensors to their products wirelessly for both powering the sensor as for transferring data.
As Electronics Designer I was responsible for creating a demonstrator to demonstrate the concept/idea to relevant stakeholders to get budget for a dedicated development project.
For this project I did the following activities:
- Derived a concept that used off the shelf components (Qi and NFC)
- Looked for suitable power supply to generate the required voltages
- Determined the buffer required to allow the sensor to start up without overloading the Qi link
- Built a demonstrator with an existing street lantern
I was able to create a demonstrator in time that nicely demonstrated the idea to the relevant stakeholders resulting in the required funding for a follow-up project.