By Good news for all Wi-Fi mobile device users: a new technology has been developed in order to help you prolong your device battery life. Wi-Fi communications from your smartphone or laptop computer can reduce the life of the battery considerably. This reduction gets magnified if there are several devices using the same hotspot since a queue will be formed by all these devices waiting to download data. Just think that waiting in line for its turn, the mobile phone or notebook computer burns more battery life. For instance, if you want to download a movie in a city, this will suppose a higher battery drainage compared to a similar download in a rural area.
To prevent this, a new technology has been created under the name of SleepWell. Being developed by a Duke University graduate student, the new system actually doubles the battery life of the Wi-Fi mobile device you’re using. How’s that possible? Well, the system allows the device to sleep while waiting for its turn to download the desired information. This will not only save the battery life of the Wi-Fi laptop/mobile phone waiting but also of the currently downloading data device.
As the system developer, Justin Manweiler, puts it:
“Big cities face heavy rush hours as workers come and leave their jobs at similar times. If work schedules were more flexible, different companies could stagger their office hours to reduce the rush. With less of a rush, there would be more free time for all, and yet, the total number of working hours would remain the same.”