Reach Power Inc., a Silicon Valley startup that delivers power wirelessly, said Friday it has raised $30 million in a funding round that will help it commercialize its products.
While big-dish antennas with high-power sources have been used to demonstrate similar technology in the past, the recent development of high-power antennas that focus on beams of energy, said Reach founder and CEO Chris DeValantes Could focus, and improve software for control. have made it possible to create effective wireless power transmission systems.
In one demonstration, DeVlantes connected a battery-free radio to an antenna-based wireless power receiver, which powered the radio up to 25 feet (7.6 m) away from the power transmitter.