A contactless distributed power supply system for modular automation components is being developed by a team lead by Professor Hans-Peter Schmidt at The University of Applied Sciences in Amberg, Germany, with the help of Opera electromagnetic design software. The system uses magnetic induction to facilitate the transfer of power and data between an input coupling device and a number of physically separate devices distributed along the length of a ‘backbone.’ Principally intended for industrial control and instrumentation applications, where it will be used for powering and communicating with remote I/O sensors and actuators, the system is also likely to prove popular wherever an easily expandable, low-cost industrial control network is required.Read more from Cobham.
EM Design Software Helps in Development of Contactless Power System
