InnoPhase Introduces Miniaturized Wi-Fi, BLE Wireless Modules

InnoPhase launched the Talaria TWO INP1012 and INP1013 modules for a wide range of products including smart home, smart industrial and smart health applications. 

According to the company, the platform combines wireless connectivity and an integrated microcontroller for edge-of-network IoT devices that require low power consumption and a direct-to-cloud connection. 

The miniaturized modules are 40% smaller than the original INP1010/INP1011, winner of Electronic Products 2020 product of the year, RF category, with, InnoPhase said, its groundbreaking digital radio architecture, the industry’s lowest power Wi-Fi connectivity.

The smaller modules embed the Talaria TWO system on a chip (SoC), a CES 2020 Innovation Award honoree, to take advantage of its processing capability, ultra-low-power wireless connectivity, and robust security, according to InnoPhase.

The integrated solution is ideally suited for smart door locks, remote security cameras, connected sensors, or other space-constrained products within home, commercial, industrial and health markets.

“Reducing Wi-Fi’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. 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,” said Andrew Zignani, principal analyst, ABI Research. “Unique innovations such as InnoPhase’s PolaRFusion Radio Frequency digital architecture can result in a significant increase in battery life for many Wi-Fi-enabled IoT devices. By 2025, ABI Research expects the IoT Wi-Fi segment that can benefit from such low power innovations to reach over 1 billion devices.”

Typical smart IoT applications use a significant percentage of the overall system power for Wi-Fi connectivity, sometimes as much as 75%, even while idly connected to the network, InnoPhase noted.

The new Talaria TWO modules can increase the battery lifetime by months or years and require less space, the company said.

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, Innophase reported.

The highly integrated, multi-protocol modules include Wi-Fi and BLE5-Long Range for wireless data transfer, and embedded Arm Cortex-M3 for system control and user applications, plus advanced security elements for device safeguards, according to InnoPhase.

The modules can operate in stand-alone mode, in conjunction 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 company added.