Israeli ambient IoT firm Wiliot has introduced its third-generation IoT Pixel battery-free sensing technology for connecting everyday products to the cloud and extending real-time intelligence to the physical world.

This launch deepens the capabilities of Wiliot’s Intelligence Platform, an AI engine that converts IoT Pixel data into continuous visibility and automated operational intelligence.

Together, the IoT Pixel and platform provide retailers, logistics providers and supply chain companies with the real-time data foundation needed to understand the location, temperature, humidity and movement of goods across complex, distributed networks.

Compared with the second-generation design, it delivers higher performance, expanded energising and read ranges, improved harvesting efficiency, and lower unit costs. Its dual-band architecture – operating across 2.4GHz and sub-1GHz – supports longer-range energising, more consistent broadcast reliability and greater adaptability across supply chain environments, from distribution centres and trailers to retail backrooms and store floors.

Roughly the size of a postage stamp and requiring no batteries, it broadcasts encrypted BLE signals that can be read by certified devices and access points. This creates an always-on sensing layer that streams real-world data from the physical environment directly into AI systems that can analyse and act on it instantly.

“The Gen3 IoT Pixel represents the next leap forward in how real-time data can be captured across supply chains,” said Julien Bellanger, Wiliot (www.wiliot.com) president. “Its enhanced performance and cost profile allow companies to deploy ambient IoT at new levels of performance and scale, fuelling our AI platform with the continuous, high-fidelity data required for more efficient operations, lower waste and smarter execution.”

The Wiliot Intelligence Platform transforms raw sensor signals into actionable intelligence. By analysing continuous streams of location, temperature, humidity, light, dwell-time and movement data, the platform provides real-time visibility and automated decisioning that enable more physical AI applications.

Five core technologies anchor the platform’s capabilities:

• Automated cycle counting, delivering continuous inventory visibility across defined areas without scanning or manual intervention.
• Automated receiving, automatically confirming inbound shipments and reducing dock-to-stock times from days to hours.
• Automated shipment verification, preventing mis-shipments by verifying outbound loads at the dock door in real time.
• Reusable asset tracking, providing ongoing visibility into RTIs – such as roll cages, totes and racks – to reduce shrink and optimise fleet use.
• Temperature and condition monitoring, tracking case-level temperature to protect perishables, enhance freshness and support compliance.

Together, these let enterprises operate on continuous data rather than periodic scans, improving accuracy, reducing loss and enabling automated, real-time decision-making from source to shelf.

The introduction follows a year of commercial expansion for the company, including one of the world’s largest ambient IoT deployments. In addition, retailers, logistics providers and parcel carriers continued to deploy the technology to unlock operational intelligence.

This acceleration reflects a broader shift towards physical AI, where ambient IoT data feeds AI systems that interpret real-world conditions and guide intelligent, automated actions. This means organisations can build supply chains that can sense, anticipate and respond in real time.

“Physical AI is becoming a defining capability for modern supply chains,” said Bellanger. “The combination of our Gen3 IoT Pixels and Intelligence Platform equips enterprises with continuous, ground-truth data at scale, transforming how they manage freshness, availability, logistics and asset flows across their networks.”