As computing devices become smaller and more numerous, powering them becomes more difficult; wires are often not feasible, and batteries add weight, bulk, cost, and require recharging/replacement that is impractical at large scales. Ambient backscatter communication solves this problem by leveraging existing TV and cellular transmissions, rather than generating their   Read More ...

Ambient Backscatter wins the best paper award at ACM SIGCOMM 2013, to be held in Hong Kong, China between August 12 and August 16, 2013. The paper is titled Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air Check out the UW CSE announcement and the project webpage.