Khoshniyati: Wiliot IoT Pixels Harvest Ambient Waves to Transmit Telemetry Data
Amir Khoshniyati · Inside The Rise of Physical AI — With Amir Khoshniyati · Jul 20, 2026 · at 6:48
Amir Khoshniyati, VP at Wiliot, explains the technical architecture of Wiliot's battery-free ambient IoT tracking tags to Alex Kantrowitz.
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“We have proprietary IP around IOT pixels. So these are, ah, reference designs that all RFID manufacturers could produce. These tags go on physical items. They're battery free, so they harvest energy off of ambient waves. So we have a capacitor that acts like a sponge, it powers up, and then it transmits a signal via Bluetooth low energy, and that signal that it transmits can be everything from the location, the temperature, the humidity, exposure to light, movement, all these capabilities.”
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