Wireless Power Consortium

Setting the international standard for interoperable wireless charging
The sign of compatibility

Creative Tension

The draft specification is ready.  We can concentrate now on prototyping, verification, and on improving the readability of the specification.

The participants in a standardization effort usually have different requirements, different cultures and different solutions in mind. These differences slow down the technical work but the end result is more versatile and robust than a solution any one of the participants could have come up with alone.

I see that happening now. The tension between the different interests did not bog us down but sparked creativity. In the technology outline that is published on the front page you will see that it is possible to allow a variety of transmitter designs, all interoperable with a great variety of different receiver designs. That design freedom is the result of creative tension and the willingness to take other participant’s interests seriously.

5 Responses to “Creative Tension”

  1. Chris says:

    When will the draft be available to read? I work with wireless power and am curious how this consortium, formed after my research, expects this technology to shape.

    • Menno Treffers says:

      The draft specification is available now, but only for members. Get your company to join and participate in the review!

  2. Oles' says:

    Are you planning to make the specification or any part of it publicly available in future?
    When is it might be possible?

    • Menno Treffers says:

      @Oles. Yes, the spec will become public. When the consortium finishes the spec it will be offered to a formal standard setting organization, such as IEC, for fast track standardization. The spec will then, obviously, become public.

  3. Excellent site, keep up the good work