GainSpan
Ultra-low power WiFi for sensors and embedded applications
GainSpan provides the industry’s lowest power consuming Wi-Fi single chip solution for battery-powered or energy-harvesting sensor applications that can run sensor devices for up to 10 years on a single AA battery. Actively participating in the green revolution and leveraging the very large installed base of Wi-Fi access points and devices, GainSpan and its ecosystem partners reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint as well as the operation and installation costs of sensor networks for government, commercial, industrial, and residential applications.
In September of 2006 a core team of engineers and thought leaders from Intel founded GainSpan in response to the growing demand for wireless sensor networking solutions. By applying its low power chip technology to an existing widely deployed standard networking technology—Wi-Fi—GainSpan hit upon a key innovation that suddenly removed the two obstacles that had been hindering the market growth of wireless sensor networks, namely high power consumption and lack of mature standards-based solutions, and opened the floodgates of new possibilities for sensor products and applications.
GainSpan customers can leverage global Wi-Fi infrastructure and devices as well as existing tools and knowledge investments to create many new sensor-based products for security and access control, temperature and occupancy monitoring, and asset and people tracking.
GainSpan’s continuing mission is to create a broad range of semiconductor solutions that continually improve usage capabilities for new sensor applications worldwide, while leveraging ubiquitous Wi-Fi. GainSpan is located in Los Gatos, California and has an R&D office in Bangalore, India.
In-Q-Tel initially invested in GainSpain in March, 2009. For more information about GainSpan, please visit www.gainspan.com.
Technology Focus Areas
- Physical and Biological Technologies
- Security
- Software and Infrastructure
