InnoPhase IoT reference designs help extend video systems
Market-ready video IoT reference designs are designed to support engineers to double battery life for Wi-Fi cameras, doorbells and video IoT devices. The reference kits with partner, Omnivision enable an easy and rapid transition to battery-operated video camera systems, said InnoPhase IoT.
The fabless semiconductor company specialises in low power Wi-Fi IoT product. It unveiled the Talaria TWO ultra-low power (ULP) Wi-Fi optimised and market-ready kits for cloud-connected IP video IoT devices. Applications include battery-operated video cameras, smart video doorbells, wearables, smart appliances, home security cameras and in-vehicle dashboard monitoring devices.
For video use-cases, the kits include integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for easy provisioning. There is also a networking TCP-IP stack on an integrated controller which enables low latency, always on cloud connectivity and eliminates image loss issues
The kits have robust throughput under noisy conditions, said InnoPhase IoT and support up to 2K camera resolution.
InnoPhase reported that untethered wireless cloud connectivity and long battery life are two major design barriers for video IoT. Only approximately 10 per cent of video cameras, for example, are currently battery-operated and these primarily have battery life limitations of three to six months. Obstacles to moving to a wireless format include Wi-Fi is inherently power hungry, rapidly draining video camera’s batteries. Location of the IoT device often makes access difficult and changing batteries cumbersome and time consuming, added InnoPhase. It claimed that its reference kit features 40 per cent lower power consumption and in excess of one year battery life performance, coupled with the availability of a variety of market ready solutions from OEMs and ODMs.
“The video camera market is ripe for wireless solutions that can speed time to market, ensure low power consumption and extend battery life, and at the same time simplify the design process, commented David Ho, director of product marketing at Omnivision. He expects the IoT camera market to grow rapidly with “this dramatic increase” in battery-life and lower energy consumption.
“Combined with InnoPhase IoT’s Talaria TWO Wi-Fi/BLE module, it enables ultra-low power and direct-to-cloud connectivity for battery operated cameras. This allows us to offer quick time to market video products for our end customers,” said a spokesperson.
Innophase IoT President and COO, Wiren Perera, added: “The InnoPhase IoT low-power solution future-proofs camera systems, allowing for enhanced features such as artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging use cases to be incorporated, while meeting market needs of long battery life.”
A reference kit includes hardware and software integration with an image signal processor (ISP), cloud connectivity software and access to original design manufacturers.
InnoPhase IoT will be at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara, California, USA: Tuesday 23 to Wednesday 24 May, booth 904.
InnoPhase IoT, headquartered in San Jose, CA, is a fabless wireless semiconductor platform company. Its flagship product, the Talaria TWO multi-protocol chipset, is claimed to deliver the world’s lowest-power Wi-Fi radio to the rapidly growing, untethered, battery-operated IoT device market.
The company says it enables end-to-end market-ready extreme low-power wireless IoT solutions with extended battery life, a low total cost of ownership (TCO), high-performance scaling, and rapid time to market.
