Silicon Labs’ Wi-Fi chips (SoCs) and Wi-Fi modules are designed specifically for the IoT, where robust RF performance, low power consumption, easy application development and fast time-to-market are key requirements.

Silicon Labs’ Wi-Fi solutions are designed specifically for the IoT, where robust RF performance, low power consumption, easy application development and fast time-to-market are key requirements.

What is Wi-Fi?

Wi-Fi is one of the most common technologies for wireless connectivity, providing secure, reliable and fast wireless IP connectivity. Silicon Labs’ all-inclusive Wi-Fi modules are targeted for applications where excellent RF performance, low power consumption, security and easy application development together with fast time to market are key requirements.

IoT applications are often constrained by power, size, resources, and vulnerable to online and physical hacking. The challenge for IoT Wi-Fi is to deliver adequate performance while lowering power consumption, reducing MIPS requirements, and delivering high levels of security. Learn more about some of the differentiating aspects of our IoT Wi-Fi solution.

Silicon Labs’ devices have several advanced built in security features – like secure boot, secure link, and secure debug to protect your IoT devices, along with the capability to run industry standard encryption efficiently. In addition to online hacking, these features prevent physical hacking to run malicious code, steal SSID/passwords and enable the debug port, and make your end device more secure.

Silicon Labs’ Wi-Fi devices are optimized for power and delivers industry’s lowest power across Transmit, Receive and Sleep modes. Silicon Labs’ low sleep and receive current enables DTIM 3 currents of <250 μA. Silicon Labs’ sleep current is <40 μA, with Transmit current <160 mA and Receive current <48 mA. All these power numbers are best in class and ensure that no matter what your use case, you will gain a significant power advantage by using our devices.

Get the most out of your battery by learning about various factors that contribute to Wi-Fi power consumption in sleepy IoT systems and how to optimize them for the best possible battery life.

Silicon Labs’ Wi-Fi Xpress modules, part of the Wireless Xpress family of modules, provides a configuration-based development experience with everything developers need, including certified Wi-Fi modules, integrated protocol stacks and easy-to-use tools supported by the Silicon Labs Gecko OS IoT operating system. With Silicon Labs' Wi-Fi Xpress modules, you don’t have to be a wireless expert to connect your product to the cloud and enable new features including remote access, real-time product health, and usage analytics.

Wi-Fi radio environments can be challenging. Nearby access points can overwhelm end nodes with interference on adjacent channels. Silicon Labs’ superior RF selectivity ensure reliable connectivity in the face of large RF interference maintaining high data rate with fewer retransmissions to save power and channel capacity.

Silicon Labs’ Wi-Fi Gecko modules take full advantage of our Gecko MCU platform offering scalability, security, and the most advanced feature set available on a low-power platform today – tailored for the creation of modern IoT products. Each device provides access to a large set of Gecko MCU peripherals including Ethernet, SPI, I2C, PWM, ADC and Touch Sense.

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