Australian AI firm BrainChip is working with HaiLa Technologies, a Canadian innovator in low power wireless, on IoT connectivity across medical, environmental and infrastructure monitoring.

Together, the companies will demonstrate how BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic technology pairs seamlessly with HaiLa’s BSC2000 radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) to enable breakthrough power efficiency for connected sensor applications in IoT, medical and smart infrastructure markets.

The combined technologies produce an efficient architecture that paves the way for continuously connected battery-operated devices that can last the entire life of the product on a single coin cell battery. This joint demonstration leverages HaiLa’s power-efficient passive backscatter wireless communications over standard wifi infrastructure with BrainChip’s Akida AKD1500 event-based AI processor.

The integration provides a platform for anomaly detection, condition monitoring and other sensor-intelligence tasks while operating on microwatts of power.

BrainChip and HaiLa are teaming up to deliver smarter, low-power offerings for intelligent connected edge devices, making it easier to run AI at the edge without draining battery life. HaiLa’s BSC2000 is a wifi-compatible connectivity RFIC designed to showcase power savings in IoT environments. When paired with Akida’s energy-efficient, event-driven AI compute, the result is said to be a uniquely optimised approach.

“As a pioneer in neuromorphic computing, we are excited to partner with HaiLa to demonstrate how advanced low-power AI processing can work in tandem with ultra-efficient wireless connectivity,” said Steve Brightfield, CMO at BrainChip. “By combining our Akida technology with HaiLa’s innovative RF platform, we’re making intelligent, battery-powered edge sensors a practical reality.”

Patricia Bower, vice president at HaiLa, added: “Our collaboration with BrainChip brings together two power-conscious technologies that redefine what is possible at the edge. With backscatter wifi and neuromorphic AI operating on microwatts, developers can create continuously monitored, intelligent sensors that last for years without battery replacement. This is transformative for anomaly detection, predictive maintenance and other real-time sensing applications.”

Founded in 2019, HaiLa (www.haila.io) is a fabless semiconductor and software company developing low-power multi-protocol radio communication for IoT devices. Originally conceptualised at Stanford University, HaiLa enables pervasive edge AI and the scaling of battery-free IoT by offering power-efficient wireless connectivity on standard wireless protocols such as wifi, Bluetooth and cellular.

BrainChip (www.brainchip.com) is a specialist in edge AI on-chip processing and learning. The company’s Akida processor is said to be the first commercial, fully digital, event-based AI that mimics the way the brain analyses data, processing only essential inputs with efficiency and speed. Akida supports edge learning directly on the chip, without the need for cloud connectivity, providing advantages in latency, privacy and energy consumption. Akida IP is suitable for integration into SoCs used in a wide range of real-world applications, from connected vehicles and consumer electronics to industrial automation and IoT sensors.