Powercast & InPlay team on battery-free BLE sensor beacon
Summary
NanoBeacons low-power design, which features fast start-up and data transmission using only microwatts of power, supports Powercast in achieving this performance. The new distance achievement is also due to Powercasts new reference design for its PCC110 Powerharvester chip and companion PCC210 boost converter, which join forces to harvest RF out of the air with up to 75% efficiency. InPlays NanoBeacon SoC family aims to make smart sensor systems using active RFID technology affordable and easy to deploy, via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Its easily configured via an app, requires no software programming, transmits data up to 300 feet, and features software-defined radio (SDR) edge networking to connect tens of thousands of IoT devices. "Maintaining billions of battery-powered IoT devices in the field is an expensive challenge, but with Powercasts technology, our customers can design battery-free wireless sensors to avoid downtime and maintenance issues," said Jason Wu, co-founder and CEO of InPlay.