Last month, I penned an IoT Evolution World story about InnoPhase IoT and its announcement, at the time. (Read the full thing here.)
Here’s the gist — InnoPhase IoT has become known by many as the fabless wireless semiconductor platform company; it specializes in extremely low-power wireless connectivity and plenty of other top-tier IoT solutions, and its goal is to continue redefining wireless tech and “break the IoT/Wi-Fi power barrier,” one representative described. (This goes double for energy-sensitive, cloud-connected wireless environments.) And in my above article, InnoPhase IoT had announced its Talaria TWO Matter v1.2 certified Wi-Fi solution. Based on a single-chip SoC (rather than the multiple-chip approach other vendors opt for), this allows the Talaria TWO Matter v1.2 solution “to enable device interoperability across a variety of ecosystems, including Apple, Google, Amazon Alexa, Samsung, etc.,” per the official news release. This not only provides a wider selection of home automation devices for smart home users, but its Matter protocol compliance addresses “vendor-independent device compatibility and easier setup to operate,” InnoPhase IoT also stated.
That’s where the company’s more recent news comes into play. It has officially made a similar announcement:
InnoPhase IoT is celebrating the availability of its Matter v1.2 platform combining STM32U5 and its aforementioned Talaria TWO Wi-Fi solution.
For context, InnoPhase IoT's Matter over Wi-Fi stack offloads both the Matter protocol processing and cloud connectivity onto the Talaria TWO SoC. This leaves greater compute power and memory on the MCU which developers can harness for applications. Now, the integration of STM32U5 and Talaria TWO with added Matter v1.2 support enables more than ultra-low power, sensor-to-cloud IoT solutions; it also enables smart home device interoperability across multiple ecosystems, thus facilitating easier setup and operation (and, ultimately, opening up a wider selection of smart home automation solutions for consumers).
This is clearly important for a number of reasons, one of which being how the smart home space as a whole is still “a very fragmented landscape,” as described by Jennifer Kent, VP of Research at Parks Associates, an IoT market research and consulting firm, “and Matter demands a critical industry effort to unlock more value. Product developers seek power-efficient Wi-Fi solutions that can help get their next-generation Matter-enabled solutions to market quickly."
(Again, impressing the relevance of InnoPhase IoT’s latest move.)
"Building on our ultra-low power Wi-Fi foundation, InnoPhase IoT is committed to delivering an exceptional IoT user experience,” explained Wiren Perera, InnoPhase IoT President and COO. “Providing platforms with Matter v1.2 certification is a key element of this multifaceted approach. It guarantees interoperability across different vendor ecosystems, key for smart home consumers.”
“This is why we’re proud of our role in integrating ST's lowest power MCU, the STM32U5, with our ultra-low-power Wi-Fi/BLE Matter v1.2 device solutions,” Perera added, “that enable rapid time-to-development for smart-home applications such as environmental monitoring, appliances, white goods, and advanced human-machine interface.”
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Edited by
Greg Tavarez
