Wiliot was founded in 2017 by Tal Tamir, Yaron Elboim, and Alon Yehezkely, following the sales of their previous startup Wilocity to Qualcomm in 2014.[2][6]
As of 2022, Wiliot is the assignee of 66 patents that relate to harvesting energy from very weak sources, running a computer element on tiny amounts of energy, producing a computer element in a thin, flexible form factor and the cloud services that enable sensing from such a system.[15]
Applications
Wiliot's tags are designed for use in the many crates that agriculture shippers use to get their products to markets.[1] The tags can provide information about the safety of the journey and the condition of perishable goods, to better manage inventory and reduce waste.[11][6] Its first large public customer was Israeli supermarket chain Shufersal in June, 2022.[1][16]
The Japan Research Institute [jp] has experimented with reducing food loss throughout the food supply chain from producers to stores and in consumers’ homes by visualizing product information using Wiliot's tags.[8]
The company hopes to extend more broadly to sectors like pharmaceuticals and apparel[1] Their tags can sense when a consumable is nearing end of life, or when a non-perishable consumable is almost used up, or how many washings a garment has been given.[11]
Recognition
The industry recognition received by Wiliot include:
Winner of the 2019 CableLabs Innovation Showcase[17]
Winner of the FDA’s Low- or No-Cost Food Traceability Challenge 2021[18]
Frost & Sullivan’s 2022 North American Battery-free Bluetooth Low Energy Tag Technology Innovation Leadership Award[19]
Frost & Sullivan's 2022 European Passive BLE-based IoT Solutions Customer Value Leadership Award[19]
2022 SXSW Innovation Awards Finalist in the Smart Cities, Transportation & Delivery category[20]
^ ab"IoTタグで「冷蔵庫の中身」を可視化、食品ロス削減目指す実証実験開始" [Visualize the"Contents of a Refrigerator" using IoT Tags, Demonstration Experiment to Reduce Food Loss Has Started] (in Japanese). ITmedia [jp]. 2022-01-12. Retrieved 2022-07-01.