Technology
Physical AI Needs a Local Interconnect
Why cloud AI has rack-scale fabrics while Physical AI needs a local interconnect to move data efficiently across bodies, wearables, and nearby compute.
9 min read
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What a Smart Ring Reveals About Wireless Power
What the Samsung Galaxy Ring reveals about wireless power budgets, and how Wi-R cuts radio current 15x compared to Bluetooth in smart rings.
5 min read
Technology
Portless Service for Sealed Automotive Modules | Ixana Wi-R NFE
How Wi-R NFE enables portless service for sealed automotive ECUs and ADAS modules: provisioning, diagnostics, and calibration without opening the case.
8 min read
Technology
Wearable AI Has a Data Problem, Not Just a Model Problem
Wearable AI fails on missing sensor data, not just models. Why a low power wearable data fabric like Wi-R BAN matters for smart glasses and health AI.
15 min read
Company
Five Years of Ixana: Building the 21st Century Connectivity Fabric
Five years of Ixana, from first image transfer demo to a five device wearable network at CES 2026. The story behind Wi-R low power wireless silicon.
5 min read
Products
XA-NFE3001: 20 Mbit/s Near Field Electric Chip, Now Sampling
XA-NFE3001 is now sampling: a 20 Mbit/s Wi-R NFE chip for portless provisioning, diagnostics, and data offload under 0.2 ms latency.
7 min read
Applications
Wi-R in Combat Medicine: Medically Transparent, Operationally Invisible
How Wi-R enables digitized combat medicine without RF detectability: touch to triage, offline documentation, and silent casualty monitoring.
9 min read
Applications
The 'Open-Box' Liability: Why Smart Grids Need a Portless NFE Data Link
Why smart meters and inverters need a portless data link. Wi-R NFE reads sealed utility enclosures securely at 5 Mbps without breaking the seal.
4 min read
Company News
CES 2026: Wi-R Earns Validation for a New Wearable Network Category
CES 2026 recap: Wi-R live demos, a CNET Best of CES pick, and press validation for a new wearable network category built on low power wireless chips.
4 min read
Technology
Why Wi-R, Why Now: Fixing Today’s Bottlenecks, Enabling Tomorrow’s AI
Why Wi-R, why now: how low latency, low power wireless fixes Bluetooth bottlenecks today and enables multimodal physical AI on wearables tomorrow.
6 min read
Applications
The Last 30 cm Problem: Why Quick Share Needs a Confidence Layer
Why Android Quick Share struggles in the last 30 cm, and how a Wi-R NFE confidence layer confirms the right device for reliable close range sharing.
4 min read
Applications
The 'Unboxing' Bottleneck: Why Logistics Needs a Portless NFE Data Link
How Wi-R NFE reads cold chain data loggers through sealed packaging: 5 Mbps portless data transfer for logistics without opening the box.
5 min read
Company News
Ixana Wins NATO Innovation Challenge for Low-Emission Touch-to-Triage Medical C2
Ixana wins third place in the NATO Innovation Challenge for Touch to Triage: low emission medical data exchange for combat casualty care using Wi-R.
4 min read
Technology
Game-Changing Wi-R Technology to Revolutionize Soldier Communications: OTTO Engineering and Ixana Announce Strategic Alliance
OTTO Engineering and Ixana announce a strategic alliance bringing Wi-R wireless technology to soldier communications, tactical audio, and radios.
3 min read
Company News
Ixana's Wi-R Chip Wins Coveted CES®2024 Innovation Award
Ixana's Wi-R chip wins a CES 2024 Innovation Award in Embedded Technologies for ultra low power wireless connectivity in wearables and AR devices.
3 min read
Company News
Ixana Named to EE Times' Silicon 100 for Wi-R Non-Radiative Body-Area-Network Technology
Ixana named to the EE Times Silicon 100 for Wi-R, a non radiative wireless technology for smart glasses, health wearables, and XR devices.
3 min read
Technology
All-day Augmented Reality, now possible courtesy of Wi-R
Why battery and heat limits block all day AR headsets, and how Wi-R distributed computing offloads AR workloads to your phone at 100x less energy.
3 min read
Technology
Wi-R Enables Wearables to Harness AI Capabilities via Distributed Computation
How Wi-R distributed computing deconstructs the smartphone into wearables plus a hub, enabling AI features at 100x less energy than Bluetooth.
5 min read
Technology
Wi-R Technology White Paper
The Wi-R white paper: how non radiative near field wireless works, and how it compares to Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UWB, NFC, and NFMI on power and speed.
6 min read