InPlay has introduced its second-generation NanoBeacon Bluetooth system-on-chip, the IN120 — designed for straightforward integration into gadgets as small as a sensible label.
“Our new IN120 SoC units a benchmark for good label expertise,” claims InPlay co-founder and chief govt officer Jason Wu of the corporate’s second-generation NanoBeacon system, following its earlier IN100 household. “By decreasing exterior parts to only one, now we have enabled producers to provide good labels extra effectively and economically, opening the door to broader deployment in logistics, prescription drugs, and disposable asset monitoring.”
That singular exterior part is a small, low-cost 26MHz crystal oscillator; every part else, the corporate guarantees, is built-in straight into the system-on-chip, equipped in a a bumped wafer Recognized Good Die (KGD) format suitable with roll-to-roll radio-frequency identification (RFID) label manufacturing. Every chip contains an built-in temperature sensor with a claimed ±1° accuracy, and helps an enter voltage vary from 1.1–3.6V for direct connection a variety of batteries together with 1.5V printable batteries.
The concept, the corporate explains, is to take the idea behind its IN100 SoC household and make it better-suited to ultra-low-cost mass manufacturing — offering a method, InPlay claims, of manufacturing energetic good labels at a price aggressive to straightforward passive RFID labels. The corporate has additionally confirmed a pre-programming service, to get customers up and working as shortly as attainable.
These occupied with making an attempt the brand new components out can have slightly wait on their arms, nevertheless: the IN120 is scheduled to pattern within the first quarter of 2026, InPlay says, with mass manufacturing deliberate “shortly thereafter.” Extra data on the underlying NanoBeacon expertise is on the market on the InPlay web site.
