A Novel Bi-directional Wireless Power Transfer Design for Smart Homes

The continuous increase of greenhouse gases has led to the melting of glaciers, rising sea levels, and a decline in rain forests. To reduce the impact of greenhouse gases, we need to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels, which is possible through the use of electric vehicles (EV’s) energy storage systems, in order to interchange the energy between distributed grids or residential electrical appliances supplied with EV’s batteries. Thus, the given paper proposes the design of a bi-directional wireless battery charger (BDWBC) for smart homes. The design complies with the synchronous rectification circuit associated with primary and secondary half-bridge (H-bridge) converters. The proposed system is implemented using MATLAB Simulink and is validated against the existing recent works based on evaluation metrics such as charging power (watts) and efficiency (%). Thus, the given wireless power transfer (WPT) approach leads to distributed energy resource management with maximum charging power and efficiency for smart homes.