Wiliot has introduced the newest generation of its battery-free sensing technology, Wiliot Gen3 IoT Pixel, designed to help connect everyday products to the cloud and extend real-time intelligence to the physical world at a global scale.
Wiliot says the Gen3 Pixel deepens the capabilities of the Wiliot Intelligence Platform, the AI engine that converts IoT Pixel data into continuous visibility and automated operational intelligence. When combined, the IoT Pixel and platform aim to provide retailers, logistics providers, and supply chain companies with real-time data to understand the location, temperature, humidity, and movement of goods across complex, distributed networks.
Building on Wiliot’s Gen2 design, the Gen3 IoT Pixel is said to deliver higher performance, expanded energizing and read ranges, improved harvesting efficiency and ‘significantly lower’ unit costs. The company states that its dual-band architecture, operating across 2.4 GHz and sub-1 GHz, supports longer-range energizing, more consistent broadcast reliability and greater adaptability across supply chain environments such as distribution centres, retail backrooms and store floors.
Roughly the size of a postage stamp, Wiliot says the Gen3 IoT Pixel broadcasts encrypted BLE signals that can be read by certified devices and access points, creating an ‘always-on’ sensing layer that streams real-world data from the physical environment directly into AI systems that can analyze and act on it instantly. The Gen3 IoT Pixel is the primary data source for the Wiliot Intelligence Platform which analyzes continuous streams of location, temperature, humidity, light, dwell-time, and movement data, providing real-time visibility and automated decisioning.
Wiliot adds that the platform’s capabilities include automated cycle counting, delivering continuous inventory visibility across defined areas without scanning or manual intervention, and temperature and condition monitoring, tracking case-level temperature to protect perishables, enhance freshness, and support compliance.
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