Truly wireless power has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here at MWC 2023. The ARCHOS Cota Wireless Power Security Camera, powered by wireless technology from Ossia, doesn’t require wires, not even for power, to help keep your home secure. Ossia claims it’s the first commercially available wirelessly-powered product, and we saw a demo of it in action.
These wireless indoor security cameras can be placed anywhere within 30 feet (9m) of a base transmitter that supplies power over the air. The technology isn’t super powerful in terms of wattage; it only supplies about 2W of power at a range of two meters and mere milliwatts at up to 10 meters. However, its application flexibility, such as placing security cameras in otherwise impossible-to-wire places, makes the technology so useful.