Key Takeaways:
- Wiliot’s Physical AI platform and supply chain solutions are built on Databricks, unlocking real-time, AI-driven insights from physical-world data.
- The partnership enhances supply chain automation, including inventory, shipment verification, and temperature monitoring.
Wiliot has formed a strategic partnership with data and artificial intelligence (AI) company Databricks to run Wiliot’s Physical AI platform and supply chain automation solutions on the Databricks platform.
As a Databricks Built-On partner, the collaboration enables enterprises to seamlessly ingest, manage, and analyze massive volumes of real-time data generated by Wiliot’s IoT Pixels, transforming everyday products and assets into intelligent, connected data sources.
Wiliot’s Physical AI technology— built around battery-free, postage-stamp-sized IoT Pixels— creates a continuous stream of granular, item-level data across supply chains and retail environments. By integrating the Wiliot Physical AI platform with Databricks’ scalable lakehouse architecture, Wiliot customers can unify physical-world data and enterprise data sources with new levels of speed and precision. From there, they can apply Wiliot’s advanced AI analytics tools to unlock new operational insights.
What the Databricks, Wiliot Partnership Offers
The combined platform utilizes Databricks’ high-performance compute, data handling, and storage to ingest real-time streams from Wiliot Physical AI networks. This integration allows organizations to leverage Wiliot’s advanced logic to predict supply chain disruptions, automate inventory management, and optimize cold chain logistics— all within a governed, secure, and unified data environment.
“Running the Wiliot Physical AI platform on Databricks gives our customers the ability to operationalize physical-world data at scale,” said Adi Applebaum, Wiliot’s Vice President of Product, in a statement. “By aligning our platform with Databricks, Wiliot is providing customers with a robust, scalable foundation, plus advanced Wiliot solutions, for turning billions of data points into immediate, profit-driving decisions.”
Powering Supply Chain AI Solutions
By partnering with Databricks for their underlying data infrastructure, Wiliot customers benefit from a proven, secure, scalable, and open environment designed to support modern data workloads. The integration simplifies data governance and ensures that Physical AI insights are accessible across business units, from operations and logistics to merchandising and sustainability teams.
The Wiliot Physical AI platform underpins the company’s five core solutions, which are disrupting the status quo of supply chain automation and visibility:
- Inventory Intelligence: Offers continuous inventory visibility across defined zones— including storage areas, backrooms, yards, and vehicles— without manual counts or periodic scans.
- Automated Receiving: Automatically confirms inbound shipments at the pallet and case level as goods arrive, eliminating manual checks and accelerating dock-to-stock workflows.
- Automated Shipment Verification: Verifies outbound loads at dock doors in real time, ensuring shipments are correct and compliant before they leave a facility.
- Reusable Asset Tracking: Provides ongoing visibility into the location, movement, and dwell time of returnable assets such as totes, racks, and roll cages across the supply chain.
- Temperature Monitoring: Monitors temperature and environmental exposure at the case and shipment level to protect perishables and sensitive goods throughout transit and storage.
How Wiliot is Expanding
With this collaboration, Wiliot continues to expand its ecosystem of leading technology partners, reinforcing its commitment to making the physical world visible, intelligent, and connected.
Roberto Robles, Databricks GTM Lead Consumer Goods & Retail, noted Physical AI represents the next frontier of data intelligence and that by partnering with Wiliot, they are enabling organizations to unify physical-world data and enterprise data to drive deeper insights and smarter decision-making.
“From the warehouse floor to the store shelf, this partnership empowers retailers to power truly intelligent, connected store experiences, where real-time product location, temperature, freshness, and inventory signals converge to eliminate out-of-stocks, reduce shrink, and personalize the shopper journey,” said Robles. “Together, we are helping companies move their supply chains from reactive monitoring to proactive, Physical AI-driven automation at scale.”
Data and Physical Assets Marriage
Wiliot, a global leader in Physical AI for supply chains, is focused on driving customer engagement across retail, consumer packaged goods and logistics sectors, providing a scalable foundation for next-generation digital transformation initiatives.
Officials noted the partnership enables the development of data applications directly on top of physical assets, providing the flexibility to tailor solutions to specific use cases and unlock continuous innovation across operations.
“Organizations are looking to bridge the gap between their physical operations and their digital AI strategies,” concluded Applebaum. “This partnership accelerates Wiliot’s mission to bring intelligence to every product and asset by combining our real-time sensing with Databricks’ powerful data engineering.”