e-peas and InPlay Launch Energy Harvesting BLE Sensor

PlatformTransforming IoT: e-peas Partners with InPlay to Launch Groundbreaking Energy Harvesting BLE Sensor Beacon Platform

Innovative Partnership: e-peas and InPlay

e-peas and InPlay have joined forces to introduce a groundbreaking development kit in the IoT landscape: an autonomous, maintenance-free, low BoM BLE Sensor Beacon powered by energy harvesting. This collaboration aims to revolutionize IoT technology by providing a sustainable and efficient solution for sensor beacons.

Revolutionizing IoT with Energy Harvesting

“InPlay is thrilled to partner with e-peas to bring this innovative product to market,” says Jason Wu, Co-founder and CEO of InPlay Inc. “Our Bluetooth connectivity solution represents a significant advancement in the IoT space, designed with the aim of delivering unprecedented convenience and efficiency.”

Sustainable and Efficient Design

The BLE sensor beacon platform incorporates InPlay’s IN100 NanoBeacon technology and e-peas’ AEM10330 Power Management IC. Complemented by a versatile photovoltaic (PV) cell and an ultra-miniature storage element, this platform ensures consistent, uninterrupted operation. The device’s ability to run in darkness for weeks once fully charged highlights its impressive low energy consumption capabilities.

Environmental Impact

Christian Ferrier, Chief Marketing Officer of e-peas, emphasizes the environmental benefits: “This development platform could potentially save millions of batteries from being discarded in landfills. The collaboration of InPlay and e-peas was a perfect match, trending in the right direction.”

User-Friendly and Flexible

Designed for convenience, the device is ready to be programmed with a compact 2-square-inch Bluetooth beacon PCB design, programmer interface, and easy addition of miniature harvester and storage elements via on-board connectors. Once programmed, the device operates perpetually, even in harsh lighting conditions, maximizing the use of available energy.

Development Tools for Innovators

InPlay provides two powerful development tools to streamline the creation of battery-less and maintenance-free product prototypes:

1. NanoBeacon Config Tool: A no-code development tool that allows developers to rapidly create applications tailored to their specific needs.
2. NanoBeacon BLE Scanner App: An efficient platform for users to scan, test, and interact with their prototypes in real-time.

Versatile Applications

The product’s flexibility extends to accommodate various sensor connections, making it ideal for applications such as BLE-based beacons, miniature asset tracking, maintenance-free tags, and connected sensor nodes.

Pioneering the Future of Autonomous Devices

As we move towards a future of autonomous devices, the partnership between InPlay and e-peas promises to lead innovation, delivering the technology of tomorrow, today.

About InPlay Inc

InPlay Inc is a fabless semiconductor company dedicated to providing highly scalable, low-latency, low-power wireless communications technologies for the VR/AR, healthcare, and wireless industrial IoT markets. Founded by experienced wireless engineers, InPlay specializes in RF, analog mixed-signal circuits, and low-power circuit design. The company operates a research and development team in Irvine, California, with business development in both the United States and China. For more information, visit InPlay Inc.

About e-peas

e-peas develops and markets disruptive ultra-low power semiconductor technology. This enables industrial and IoT wireless product designers to substantially extend battery lifespans and eliminate the heavy call-out costs of replacing batteries, without in any way compromising on reliability. Relying on 15 years of research and patented intellectual property, the company’s products increase the amount of harvested energy and drastically reduce the energy consumption of all power consuming blocks within wireless sensor nodes. Headquartered in Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium, with additional offices in Switzerland and the USA, e-peas offers a portfolio of energy harvesting power management interface ICs, microcontrollers and sensor solutions.

For more information, please visit InPlay’s website at https://www.inplay-tech.com or e-peas’ website at https://e-peas.com.

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Emmy Chang
Inplay, Inc.