Wiliot announced a strategic partnership with 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 analyse 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.
The combined platform utilises Databricks’ high-performance compute, data handling, and storage to ingest real-time streams from Wiliot physical AI networks. This integration allows organisations to leverage Wiliot’s advanced logic to predict supply chain disruptions, automate inventory management, and optimise cold chain logistics – all within a governed, secure, and unified data environment.
Additionally, it 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.
“Running the Wiliot Physical AI platform on Databricks gives our customers the ability to operationalise physical-world data at scale,” said Adi Applebaum, Wiliot’s Vice President of Product. “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 Wiliot’s supply chain AI solutions
The Wiliot physical AI platform underpins Wiliot’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
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.
“Physical AI represents the next frontier of data intelligence,” said Roberto Robles, Databricks GTM Lead Consumer Goods & Retail. “By partnering with Wiliot, we are enabling organisations 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 personalise the shopper journey. Together, we are helping companies move their supply chains from reactive monitoring to proactive, Physical AI-driven automation at scale.”
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.
Databricks has been named by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems for five consecutive years.
Wiliot is driving customer engagement across retail, consumer packaged goods and logistics sectors, providing a scalable foundation for next-generation digital transformation initiatives. Some of the largest enterprises in the world, including Walmart and Royal Mail, are using the Wiliot physical AI platform to reimagine operations.
“Organisations 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.”
