Intel, Pepsico, Qualcomm, Others To Remove Batteries From IoT - As Ambient IoT Alliance
RCRWirelessNews, Wednesday, February 19th, 2025
Leading industry companies including Infineon, Intel, PepsiCo, and Qualcomm have joined together to form the Ambient IoT Alliance (AIoTA) to develop and scale energy-harvesting in battery-less IoT sensor devices.
The group is focused on ambient IoT - as written about as a conceot in these pages for years - in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 5G devices, specifically. The other founders are Atmosic, VusionGroup, and Wiliot.
There is ongoing work to include ambient IoT as a 3GPP work item in development of the 5G standard in releases 19 and 20 (5G Advanced). The IEEE (Wi-Fi) and Bluetooth SIG have their own work items, alongside. Similar work is being done by the LoRaWAN and Sigfox communities. The alliance said it wants an 'open, harmonised, and aligned multi-standard ecosystem'. It wants other companies that produce or utilise IoT tags, devices, networking middleware, applications, and cloud services to join.