Undersea Wireless Power and Data Transfer System With Shared Channel Powered by Marine Renewable Energy System

Abstract

Marine renewable energy (i.e., wave, tidal or ocean current, thermal gradient, and salinity gradient), can revolutionize ocean observing capabilities and marine power supply method. Under the marine environment, as the conductive feature of seawater, it has big challenge for wireless power and signal transfer under marine environment. To deal with this issue, this paper provides an undersea wireless power and data transfer system with the shared channel which powered by renewable system. The power and data could be transferred with the same channel based on the time division multiplexing theory. In one switching cycle, the power is transferred in the first half switching cycle and the data is transferred in the second half switching cycle. The data is modulated by frequency-shift keying (FSK) modulation method. The frequency for power transfer is set as 240 kHz. With the FSK modulation method, the two signal carriers’ frequencies are respectively set 10 MHz and 2 MHz. The data could be completely transferred with the high bandwidth. The glass tank experimental platform is constructed with the 35‰ salinity water. The simulated and experimental results verify the theory analysis and the calculation very well.