Infineon Technologies and Deeyook collaborate on precise positioning solution using low-power Wi-Fi chips

Infineon Technologies and Deeyook Launch Precise Positioning Solution Using Low-Power Wi-Fi Chips

Munich, Germany and Tel Aviv, Israel, January 10, 2022 - Infineon Technologies AG and Deeyook, a Location as a Service (LaaS) company, have announced a joint launch of a positioning solution. Deeyook has developed a patented, award-winning location tracking solution for determining the location of objects, devices and people indoors and outdoors. The two companies have worked together to integrate Deeyook’s innovative, ultra-high-precision algorithms into Infineon’s leading low-power AIROC™ Wi-Fi® portfolio, resulting in an accurate, passive, efficient and ubiquitous positioning solution.

Deeyook redefines indoor/outdoor positioning technology through innovations in wireless signal processing, enabling it to support firmware versions of existing Wi-Fi/4G/5G modems. This firmware measures the transmission angle of radio waves (direction finding, or DF), which is a first in commercial wireless location tracking. Deeyook's positioning function is very accurate and can be located using 1.7 billion wireless access points around the world with an accuracy of 10 cm/4 inches.

Gideon Rottem, CEO and co-founder of Deeyook, said: "Enterprises face many challenges in deploying real-time location systems, mainly because location solutions such as RFID are not ubiquitous. This is especially true for GPS, which has many shortcomings. We created Deeyook to address these challenges and use this ubiquitous technology to accurately locate objects indoors, outdoors and even in adverse weather conditions. Infineon is a leader in the IoT market and its AIROC Wi-Fi portfolio is reliable and low-power. We are very happy to cooperate with Infineon."

Sivaram Trikutam, Senior Director of IoT, Computing and Wireless Business at Infineon Technologies, said: "Infineon's mission is to use our innovative semiconductor technology to help create smart connected devices to make the world more convenient, safer and greener. These new IoT solutions support a variety of location tracking technologies. Previously, Wi-Fi was considered unsuitable due to its high power consumption, and the deployment of real-time location systems (RTLS) also required enterprises to use customized solutions with expensive infrastructure and a lot of engineering and labor costs for installation."

Deeyook's solutions pave the way for solving the above problems. These solutions are built into the firmware of the new generation of chips, making it possible to become a leader in the RTLS market. Through this cooperation, Infineon will further consolidate its industry leadership and continue to serve global leading companies as a core supplier of Industry 4.0 solutions.