{"id":107551,"date":"2020-05-23T20:46:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T03:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/new-chip-brings-ultra-low-power-wi-fi-connectivity-to-iot-devices"},"modified":"2020-05-23T20:46:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T03:46:51","slug":"new-chip-brings-ultra-low-power-wi-fi-connectivity-to-iot-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/new-chip-brings-ultra-low-power-wi-fi-connectivity-to-iot-devices","title":{"rendered":"New chip brings ultra-low power Wi-Fi connectivity to IoT devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-chip-brings-ultra-low-power-wi-fi-connectivity-to-iot-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More portable, fully wireless smart home setups. Lower power wearables. Batteryless smart devices. These could all be made possible thanks to a new ultra-low power Wi-Fi radio developed by electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>The device, which is housed in a chip smaller than a grain of rice, enables Internet of Things (IoT) devices to communicate with existing Wi-Fi networks using 5,000 times less <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">power<\/a> than today\u2019s Wi-Fi radios. It consumes just 28 microwatts of power. And it does so while transmitting data at a rate of 2 megabits per second (a connection fast enough to stream music and most YouTube videos) over a range of up to 21 meters.<\/p>\n<p>The team will present their work at the ISSCC 2020 conference Feb. 16 to 20 in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More portable, fully wireless smart home setups. Lower power wearables. Batteryless smart devices. These could all be made possible thanks to a new ultra-low power Wi-Fi radio developed by electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego. The device, which is housed in a chip smaller than a grain of rice, enables Internet of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,15,418,42,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-habitats","category-internet","category-media-arts","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}