Oslo-based ONiO has raised €5 million to ramp manufacturing of ONiO.zero – the primary general-purpose microcontroller unit (MCU) that cold-starts from underneath 1µW and runs completely on ambient vitality.
The spherical was led by Stockholm-based node.vc, with Helsinki’s Maki.vc as co-lead. Current buyers EIC Fund and MP Pension matched the funding and doubled down.
“ONiO represents the form of breakthrough know-how we search for at node.vc,” mentioned Mårten Skogö, Associate at node.vc. “Their capacity to energy a microcontroller completely from ambient vitality will not be solely technically spectacular – it’s basically altering how we take into consideration sustainable IoT. The workforce has confirmed that the know-how works in real-world purposes, and now it’s time to scale. We’re excited to assist ONiO as they convey this game-changing chip to market.”
Based in 2016, ONiO is a fabless IoT firm specialising in ultra-low-power microcontrollers, together with the “world’s most power-efficient” MCU. Designed to harness ambient vitality, ONiO.zero operates on as little as 22µW/MHz.
The funding accelerates quantity manufacturing of ONiO.zero – their power-agnostic wi-fi microcontroller that cold-starts from lower than 1µW and runs on ambient vitality. Photo voltaic, RF, thermal, piezo – it apparently harvests no matter you throw at it.
No batteries required, although “it’s pleased to collaborate properly with them when wanted“.
The core mission with ONiO was to stem the huge move of tens of millions of batteries into oceans and landfills, in addition to empower producers with minimalist, user-friendly, and cost-effective energy options. By unshackling IoT gadgets from conventional energy constraints, ONiO appears to be like to drive a brand new period of innovation and sustainability within the IoT house.
The corporate says that all the things lives on a single die: A RISC-V CPU, radios, energy administration, safety, reminiscence and way more. They’ve built-in what used to take dozens of parts into one chip. It’s been examined in photo voltaic keyboards, digital shelf labels, air high quality sensors, asset trackers, and soil sensors monitoring crops.
Now they’re scaling manufacturing alongside the dev kits and reference designs that allow engineers construct the designs that make sense for his or her purposes.
“All that’s left to do is to make much more of those tremendous chips,” says the corporate.
