InnoPhase, a Californian fabless semiconductor company specialising in low power wireless IoT, has announced the Talaria Two INP1012 and INP1013 modules for smart home, industrial and health applications.

The wifi and Bluetooth LE platform combines wireless connectivity and integrated microcontroller for edge-of-network IoT devices that require low power consumption and a direct-to-cloud connection. The modules are forty per cent smaller than the original INP1010 and INP1011.

The INP1012 and INP1013 embed the Talaria Two system on a chip (SoC) to take advantage of its processing capability, low-power wireless connectivity and security. This is suitable for smart door locks, remote security cameras, connected sensors, or other space-constrained products within home, commercial, industrial and health markets.

“Reducing wifi’s power consumption will be critical in enabling many devices to be battery powered for the first time or extending device lifespans from weeks to months or years,” said Andrew Zignani, principal analyst at ABI Research. “This will improve the user experience while helping to accelerate key IoT market segments, ranging from smart home automation devices to wearables where increased battery life is becoming an ever important differentiator. Unique innovations such as InnoPhase’s PolarFusion RF digital architecture can result in a significant increase in battery life for many wifi enabled IoT devices. By 2025, ABI Research expects the IoT wifi segment that can benefit from such low power innovations to reach over one billion devices.”

Typical smart IoT applications use a significant percentage of the overall system power for wifi connectivity, sometimes as much as 75 per cent, even while idly connected to the network. These modules can increase the battery lifetime by months or years and require less space. The INP1012 module has the added value of allowing the user to select the antenna connection and placement, which is particularly beneficial for industrial applications.

The integrated, multi-protocol modules include wifi and BLE5-Long Range for wireless data transfer, an embedded Arm Cortex-M3 for system control and user applications, plus security elements for device safeguards. They can operate in stand-alone mode, with an external MCU, or in a hybrid mode where the system control and processing responsibilities are shared between the module and an external MCU.

The modules come with the necessary clocks, passives and antennas and will be certified with the Wifi Alliance, Bluetooth SIG, FCC and IC (Canada), and have CE approval.

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