Silicon Labs and Wirepas have reached a major deployment milestone, announcing the shipment of over 10 million wireless system-on-chips (SoCs) powered by Wirepas' RF mesh connectivity software. Many of these have been deployed in India, using the Silicon Labs FG23 sub-GHz SoC, which has become a key enabler for some of the world’s largest and most demanding industrial IoT networks.
These SoCs are now supporting national-scale infrastructure across smart electricity metering, emergency lighting, industrial monitoring, and building automation. The milestone demonstrates that the joint solution, pairing Silicon Labs’ low-power wireless platforms with Wirepas’ decentralized mesh software, is not only robust and secure, but proven at scale in the real world.
In India, more than four million smart electricity meters have already been deployed using the FG13 and FG23 platforms, forming a foundational part of the country’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) efforts. The mesh-based approach has delivered reliable, cost-effective coverage across dense urban environments, helping India push forward on grid modernisation and electrification targets.
Elsewhere, Norway hosts one of the world’s largest single mesh networks, with over a million smart meters operating on Wirepas Mesh. These real-world deployments highlight the viability of decentralized, self-healing mesh architectures for national infrastructure, where scale and resilience are non-negotiable.
Additional sectors, such as emergency lighting, are also adopting the solution at pace, underscoring the technology’s suitability beyond metering and into broader industrial and commercial applications.
“Our partnership with Wirepas is built on a shared vision: to enable industrial-grade wireless connectivity at scale,” said Ross Sabolcik, SVP of Product Lines at Silicon Labs. “We’re helping customers build massive, secure, and resilient IoT networks more quickly and more cost-effectively.”
“This 10-million milestone demonstrates the unmatched scalability and resilience of our joint solution,” added Teppo Hemiä, CEO of Wirepas. “Together we’re solving real infrastructure challenges, especially in countries undergoing rapid digital transformation.”
With plans to extend collaboration into the 2.4 GHz spectrum and growing demand across industrial verticals, the partnership is well-positioned to support next-generation IoT deployments around the world.
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