Wireless data transfer technology gets support from giants

Have you thought about transferring a large volume of data without the need for cables or even a Wi-Fi connection? Some tech giants already, so much so that several companies have decided to invest in Keyssa, a California startup in the United States, that has developed an innovative method of sending and receiving data that does not require cables or wireless Internet.

Names like Samsung and Foxconn have joined billionaire Tony Fadell (creator of the iPod) and Intel to make a $ 100 million financial contribution to the startup. Keyssa has created a transfer method that resembles Bluetooth, allowing a large amount of data, such as high-definition movies, to be transferred briefly between two devices. For this, it is enough that they are close to each other.

The idea is that in the future, this technology will be implemented in mobile devices, such as laptops and smartphones, in order to make the presence of physical connectors more and more dispensable. This would ensure the creation of lighter and thinner gadgets, two clear goals for the PC and mobile industry.


Despite being unknown to the general public, Keyssa relies on the team's expertise behind the development of the technology used in the HDMI standard, ubiquitous these days. Thus, support from various industry companies comes with the expectation that the industry will adopt a new standard when non-internet-connected transfer becomes more popular.

"The standards tend to make the ecosystems around them be constructed in a very complicated way," said the head of Samsung's financing arm, Shankar Chandran, in an interview with Reuters. "What is needed is a lot of industry players stating that they will build this pattern. And that's what we really have. "

Debut

According to Reuters, one of the first devices to introduce the new Keyssa technology could be the Essential Phone, the smart and powerful smartphone created by Android co-creator Andy Rubin. The expectation exists because Rubin is also an investor of Keyssa and also because Essential Phone will have a wireless data transfer system, although it is unclear who is responsible for providing this technology.