Green fields ahead: ONiO Awarded Research Council Grant for developing batteryless sensor systems for Precision Agriculture
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Batteryless was never the point 🚀
Let’s be honest.
We’ve been riding the “batteryless” wave pretty hard for a while now.
If you’ve followed ONiO at all over the last couple of years, you’ve seen it:
No batteries. No maintenance. Save the planet. Coin cells are evil. That whole thing.
And, yeah — we meant it.
Still do, to a degree.
But lately, we’ve been sitting with it. Looking at what we’ve built. Talking to people. Watching how our story has landed out in the wild. And it’s become clear:
We need to tell the whole truth now.
Why we told the batteryless story to begin with
Let’s rewind.
When we started ONiO, we weren’t trying to be yet another MCU vendor with a clever logo and a new benchmark.
Honestly, we were terrified of becoming invisible — just another piece of silicon with slightly better power figures and a PDF nobody reads.
So we did what we had to do:
We found a story.
And it was a good one.
Batteryless wasn’t just a gimmick. It was our origin — a design constraint that forced us to think differently. How do you build something that can cold-start from ambient energy alone?
That question led us to ONiO.zero.
It also gave us something way more rare: an actual identity.
In a sea of suit-and-slide-deck semiconductor companies, we stood out. We felt like… people. With a point of view.
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Abishek Swaminathen
Senior Content Manager
Abishek is ONiO’s senior content manager. A medical doctor by profession, he stumbled onto a writing career almost by accident, as it were. Words have enthralled Abishek since the day he first held a book and at ONiO, he channels his inner wordsmith towards providing our subscribers with regular doses of fun and informative content.
