Las Vegas, Jan. 10, 2022: Energous Corporation, a developer of RF-based charging for wireless power networks, has decided to tie up with Syntiant, a provider of deep learning solutions making Edge artificial intelligence (AI) a reality for always-on voice, sensor and image applications, to develop and implement Energous’ WattUp wireless power network technology. The tech will be developed with Syntiant’s Neural Decision Processors (NDPs) for Edge AI deployments across a wide range of consumer and industrial use cases.
The California, US-based Syntiant combines the industry’s “most efficient” silicon with a data platform and training pipeline, providing customers with low-cost, turn-key solutions that put deep learning processing into almost any Edge device, free from Cloud connectivity, ensuring privacy and security. The company’s ultra-low-power NDPs are being designed into earbuds, wearables, medical devices, mobile phones, laptops, smart home appliances, as well as industrial IoT equipment and automobiles. Designed by applying a clean-sheet, hardware/software co-design methodology, Syntiant’s AI processors deliver 100x more efficiency and 10x the throughput compared to current low-power microcontroller unit solutions.
Unlike passive solutions that harvest ambient energy from the surrounding environment, which typically offer extremely low amounts of power and can be unpredictable in terms of how much power is available, Energous’ wireless power network solutions include a WattUp PowerBridge transmitter that emits conducted RF power in a specific area or direction. This RF-based energy is then harvested by receiving devices.
Energous’ wireless power networks support “one to many” charging, allowing multiple devices to be simultaneously charged from a single transmitter. It is applicable to a wide range of industries and applications, from drug storage monitors and patient trackers in a healthcare setting, to smoke detectors and motion sensors in a smart home, to fault prevention, temperature and other safety sensors in an industrial environment.
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