Introducing: The Wiliot Gen3 IoT Pixel – Debuting at NRF 2026

Wiliot is proud to announce the launch of its Gen3 IoT Pixel – our most advanced battery-free sensor to date and a major step forward in how physical world data is captured, interpreted, and applied at scale across retail and supply chain operations.

Designed to be small, passive, and deployable at massive scale, the Gen3 IoT Pixel enables products and assets to continuously emit signals as they move through global supply chains. While the sensor itself represents a significant technical advance, its broader importance lies in what it enables: the continued emergence of ambient IoT as the data layer behind Physical AI.

Physical AI is intelligence trained on physical reality – movement, dwell time, temperature, humidity, light exposure, handling, and condition – rather than static records or inferred models. Ambient IoT makes this possible by embedding sensing directly into products and assets, transforming physical operations into continuous sources of physical world data.

As these signals stream into AI systems, intelligence begins to reflect what is actually happening across complex networks, in real time.

A Living Data Layer for Retail Operations

At scale, ambient IoT forms a persistent sensing fabric across warehouses, vehicles, distribution centers, stores, and backrooms. Environments become observant rather than dependent on scans or checkpoints. Goods are detected as they arrive, move, wait, and change condition. AI systems interpret these signals to surface patterns, flag risk, and support automated decisions in real time.

This is the role of the Wiliot Intelligence Platform, which transforms raw IoT Pixel signals into operational intelligence across five core and transformational solutions:

• Automated Cycle Counting: Continuous, scan-free inventory visibility across defined areas such as backrooms, coolers, storage rooms, and vehicles.

• Automated Receiving: Automatic confirmation of inbound shipments as they arrive, reducing dock-to-stock time and eliminating manual counting.

• Automated Shipment Verification: Real-time verification of outbound loads at dock doors, preventing mis-shipments before trucks depart.

• Reusable Asset Tracking: Persistent visibility into returnable transport items such as roll cages, totes, and racks to reduce shrink and optimize utilization.

• Temperature and Condition Monitoring: Case-level temperature and dwell-time tracking for perishables and sensitive goods, supporting freshness, compliance, and waste reduction.

Together, these solutions enable retailers to operate on continuous data rather than periodic checks, improving accuracy, reducing loss, and supporting faster, more confident decisions.

Scale Unlocks Physical AI

The timing of the Gen3 IoT Pixel matters. Over the past year, ambient IoT reached meaningful commercial scale – most notably through our collaboration with Walmart, which supported one of the world’s largest ambient IoT deployments. Beyond Walmart, additional leading retailers, logistics providers, and parcel carriers have adopted Wiliot technology to unlock new levels of operational intelligence across their operations.

Tens of millions of our IoT Pixels now generate billions of sensing events each month. That scale is what allows Physical AI to function as an operational system.

And as our deployments expand, AI gains richer context about how goods behave in the real world – how inventory flows, where friction accumulates, and when risk begins to surface. Supply chains gain the ability to anticipate issues early, manage freshness more precisely, and improve asset utilization with confidence.

The Gen3 IoT Pixel as an Enabler

The Gen3 IoT Pixel is designed to support this next phase of scale. Building on Wiliot’s Gen2 foundation, it delivers improved energizing and read ranges, greater harvesting efficiency, and a lower cost profile. Its dual-band architecture enables consistent performance across diverse environments, supporting reliable data capture throughout global supply chains.

These advances make it possible to deploy Wiliot more broadly – across more products, facilities, and workflows – while maintaining operational simplicity. The Gen3 IoT Pixel serves as the primary data source behind the Intelligence Platform, supplying the continuous, high-fidelity signals required for Physical AI to operate effectively at enterprise scale.

Beginning at NRF 2026

At NRF 2026, booth #3469, we’ll showcase the Gen3 IoT Pixel and its Intelligence Platform through live demonstrations spanning inventory intelligence, automated receiving, shipment verification, reusable asset tracking, and temperature monitoring. Together, these experiences reflect how ambient IoT and Physical AI are reshaping retail operations today – and how that transformation will accelerate in the year ahead.

The Gen3 IoT Pixel represents progress, not as an endpoint, but as an enabler. By expanding the reach and performance of ambient IoT, it strengthens the data layer behind Physical AI – supporting a new generation of retail supply chains that operate with continuous awareness, resilience, and intelligence rooted in the physical world.

To see the Gen3 IoT Pixel and Wiliot Intelligence Platform in action, schedule a meeting with our team at NRF 2026:
https://www.wiliot.com/nrf-202...