Internet of Things (IoT) technology provider Wiliot is using artificial intelligence (AI) to build a platform that “lets things talk,” enabling businesses and consumers to ask questions about and communicate with their myriad connected products.
San Diego-based Wiliot unveiled the “WiliBot” on Tuesday, calling it a generative AI (GenAI) chatbot that enables natural language conversations with any IoT-connected product.
The system leverages Wiliot’s core product, its “Ambient Data Platform,” which uses postage stamp-sized, self-powered IoT pixels attached to products, packaging, containers, boxes or pallets. These IoT pixels wirelessly send information – such as location, temperature, humidity and carbon footprint – to the Wiliot cloud, where companies can analyze the data. The company’s AI and machine learning algorithms can also identify “events” in the supply chain and automatically generate alerts or responses that allow companies to course-correct or optimize their operations, for example if they discover that shipments of products or pharmaceuticals have been handled at unsafe temperatures.
By combining GenAI with this vast source of real-time data from the physical environment, companies — and ultimately consumers — will be able to have meaningful conversations with the products they make, source, distribute and ultimately buy, said San Diego-based Wiliot.
“Ambient IoT and generative AI are increasingly symbiotic technologies. Ambient IoT generates massive amounts of data about trillions of everyday objects, and GenAI can interpret all of that data in unique ways,” said Tal Tamir, CEO of Wiliot, in a press release. “On the other hand, GenAI learns by analyzing massive amounts of data. On a real-world scale, that data has been finite until now, but Ambient IoT offers vast new data sets from the physical world that a GenAI platform like WiliBot – and others – can use to describe products, materials, supply chains, and anything connected to the internet.”
