Wiliot: Printable Sensors
Small but powerful.
Wiliot is developing a Bluetooth tag that could be the #future of #IoT chips. No bigger than a postage stamp, their product has three core ARM processors with RAM, ROM, onboard sensors and flash memory - and is powered by harvested radio waves. This eliminates the need for a battery, making it a small, more convenient, and environmentally friendly offering.
What's more, Stephen Statler - the company's senior VP - hopes to make IoT 'ubiquitous' through low costs as well as versatility. With basic IoT sensor / RFID tag costs as low as around 40 cents, Wiliot is making active efforts to reduce the price of its tag below this level ensuring infrastructure costs are also reduced - ensuring their battery-free tag remains accessible.
Low maintenance and cost allows the IoT chip to be utilised for a vast range of purposes, including temperature tracking of for example foods and medication such as Covid-19 vaccines.
Having received $70 million from multiple, high-profile investors, Wiliot is actualising their IoT vision.