TAINAN, Taiwan – March 18, 2021 – Himax Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: HIMX) (“Himax”), a leading supplier and
fabless manufacturer of display drivers and other semiconductor products, today announced its ultralow power
WE-I Plus AIoT Platform has been listed in the Azure Certified Device Catalog after receiving Microsoft Azure IoT
PnP certification.
“The Microsoft Azure IoT Platform and Himax WE-I Plus AIoT Platform collectively create a powerful tool for our
customers to unleash their creativity,” said Jordan Wu, President and Chief Executive Officer at Himax. ”We
bring to market a reliable, secure and long battery life edge AI product, and make it easier and faster than ever.”
Ultralow Power WE-I Plus AIoT platform featuring NB-IoT for cloud connect
Himax WE-I Plus AIoT platform is composed of Himax’s ultralow power WE-I Plus endpoint AI processor, always-
on image sensor and computer-vision AI algorithm, along with a 3rd party NB-IoT module, all operating in
ultralow power, to act as an edge AI device in the Azure IoT cloud service ecosystem. Under the designated
working environment at the edge, Himax WE-I Plus AIoT platform detects motion by AoS image sensor, can carry
out customized AI-use-case operations, such as person detection, face detection, face recognition and object
detection, by WE-I Plus and then output secure metadata over NB-IoT protocol to the Azure IoT cloud for further
statistical data processing and analysis. In such a scenario, the Himax WE-I Plus AIoT platform can operate with
just 4 AA batteries for more than one-year lifetime. By comparison other IoT devices with the same battery
capacity and event trigger frequency, which transmit raw data rather than metadata, may result in much shorter
battery life, in some cases even less than one month.
“Himax is a valued collaborator in our mission to make Azure IoT platform the go-to platform for designers of
smart, connected devices,” said Sean Pien, Enterprise Commercial Lead at Microsoft Taiwan Corporation.
“Moreover, Azure Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) accessed through WE-I Plus SDK tools integrates
seamlessly with our Azure IoT platform, providing an easy and convenient means of connecting IoT endpoints
and edge devices to the cloud.”
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