The Work Plan

The Wireless Power Consortium is committed to improve and extend the Qi wireless power specifications.

Further increase in design freedom for wireless power products

The current version of the Qi low power specifications allows a range of possible transmitter designs. The first version of the specification allowed four types of transmitters. Two multi-coil arrays, a moving coil, and fxed single coil transmitters. And each type allows different shapes and sizes where manufacturers can make their own trade off between cost, user experience, and design.

We are now further increasing the freedom in transmitter design. Members of the consortium have proposed several new transmitter types. These new types are added to the specification when analysis has shown that the new transmitter will not cause incompatibilities with the existing Qi power receivers.

We will continue to add new transmitter types. For details see: http://www.wirelesspowerconsortium.com/blog/15/compatibility-or-freedom. Here you can read how we make sure that new transmitters will not cause incompatibilities. 

Extension to medium power

The Wireless Power Consortium has started work to extend the Qi specification to medium power. The low power specification delivers up to 5 Watt, the medium power specification will deliver up to 120 Watt.