Among the hundreds of devices shown at Sensors Converge 2024, InnoPhase IoT demonstrated its new Talaria TWO chipset and modules provisioned with low-power Wi-Fi radios to be used for battery-powered devices with AI and ML connections to the cloud.
Demos included voice command control of Matter 1.2-ready devices for smart home use, like streaming audio over Wi-Fi and an IP video camera combined with a doorbell. The new Matter protocol is used by InnoPhase IoT on a single-chip SoC compared to the multi-chip approach of other vendors.
Matter 1.2 gives chip vendors and end users flexibility that had evaded earlier versions of Matter, since it provides vendor-independent device compatibility, easy setup and operation, said Deepal Mehta, senior director of marketing and business development for InnoPhase IoT. ( Mehta also discussed cloud-to-edge architectures on a Sensors Converge panel.) Device interoperability is possible for users across devices from Apple, Google, Amazon Alexa, Samsung and more.
Mehta showed off several applications at the Sensors Converge booth, including a lock application with Talaria TWO and an ST Microelectronics MCU all working over Matter 1.2. From a tablet computer input, a door lock was operated wirelessly, which could be interoperable with gear from Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, Google Home and Samsung SmartThings.
Talaria TWO delivers the world’s lowest-power Wi-Fi radio, InnoPhase IoT claimed.
ABI Research has forecast 1.5 billion Matter-compliant devices will ship annually by 2030 and many will be battery powered. Interoperability and extended battery life with Talaria TWO will support Wi-Fi enabled smart door locks, lighting, thermostats and many sensor-enabled products. “This will be critical in providing an enhanced customer experience and up to a 4x improvement in battery life,” said Andrew Zignani, senior research director for ABI in a statement.
InnoPhase IoT offers a Talaria TWO Matter full-stack software development kit, SDK 3.1, with Matter 1.2 reference application profiles for smart lighting and door locks with support for Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. More profiles are expected to be released in third quarter.
Nuvoton is working with InnoPhase, providing its NuMicro microcontrollers and microprocessors with InnoPhase’s Talaria TWO Wi-Fi/BLE modules. Nuvoton’s Chad Wu, vice president of the microcontroller business unit, predicted in a statement their combination in a Matter reference design with “notably speed up market entry for smart home device customers."
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