Our group leverages ultra low power communication technologies like backscatter communications at mmWave frequencies to enable sustainable ubiquitous sensing. We are interested in a wide range of sensing applications ranging from structural health monitoring, agricultural sensing, and chemical warfare agent detection.

One of the most significant impacts of Prof. Eid’s Ph.D. work (“5G as a Wireless Power Grid“) is the demonstration that, thanks to the specifications of the new 5G standards, cellular service providers will have the ability–—after extending their offer from voice alone to data in the 1990s–—to become power providers, enabling perpetual environmentally-friendly power autonomous sensing, tracking, and communication devices. Our group aims to implement this vision by developing systems that enable long range, high efficiency powering links capable of supplying power to a wide range of targets spanning from ultra-low power IoT devices to large in flight UAVs.