Battery-Based Digital RF Architecture Targeted to Smart Home Market for 2019

Fabless semiconductor company InnoPhase said companies are in the final stages of development for products based on its nascent digital radio architecture capable of improving battery life of Wi-Fi, LTE and other IoT wireless device protocols by two to eight times. InnoPhase's PolaRFusion architecture is designed to expand the battery-based IoT market, said the company Wednesday, drawing on Moore’s Law for lower power and smaller die sizes even as products move to more advanced semiconductor process nodes. IoT products based on PolaRFusion “can cut the cord and be battery-based,” said the company, suggesting cloud-connected smart door locks, security cameras, smart speakers and patient monitoring equipment with batteries that last for “months or even years, not weeks.” PolaRFusion integrates low-cost, nonlinear digital signal processors to receive, process and transmit industry-standard protocols via software with required sensitivity, signal output levels, data rates and other critical RF specifications. Multiprotocol wireless products based on the design are in field testing, with volume production slated for early next year, said InnoPhase. Designing in long-life batteries and eliminating power cords from smart home devices can have convenience and decluttering benefits for consumers, said Futuresource analyst Filipe Oliveira in InnoPhase's announcement.