Californian fabless semiconductor company InnoPhase has announced an IoT platform that uses low-power wifi cloud connectivity to make it easier to link with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The company has also unveiled a demonstration smart home skill for Amazon Alexa targeted at home automation product designs.

These products use the Talaria Two multiprotocol wireless modules, which are said to offer the industry’s lowest power wifi and BLE5 for provisioning and diagnostics.

The platform combines wireless connectivity, an integrated microcontroller and security elements for edge-of-network IoT devices that require low power consumption and a direct-to-cloud connection such as smart locks, doorbells, security sensors and leak detection sensors.

The pre-packaged Talaria Two kits are tuned and optimised and include hardware, complete software packages and reference design files making it easier for manufacturers to add AWS services and Alexa skills to their products.

For instance, InnoPhase’s latest sensor-to-cloud offering includes everything needed for expedited development of a cloud-connected sensor, such as device provisioning over BLE, pre-integrated AWS connectivity, and flexible settings to extend battery life. Future products will address smart home, smart industrial, smart commercial and smart health applications.

“Cloud-connectivity has become an integral part of all IoT edge devices and our Talaria Two solutions make connecting to AWS quick and easy,” said Greg Winner, vice president at InnoPhase. “Plus, the exceptionally low power wifi allows these edge devices to be untethered from power outlets and network cables ushering in the development of a whole new category of innovative products and services.”

Wireless data transfer has historically been a major power-consuming portion of connected IoT designs. The programmable, digital polar radio architecture reduces the current consumption of wifi radios letting battery-based IoT products last more than two years.

InnoPhase, headquartered in San Diego, California, is a fabless wireless semiconductor company specialising in low-power wireless IoT.