With the Internet of Things in mind, ARM wants to improve the battery life of sensors that use Bluetooth, making it efficient enough to be powered using energy harvesting.

To help achieve this the company on Thursday announced it has acquired Wicentric and Sunrise Micro Devices. Neither company is exactly a household name, but ARM is convinced they will help it develop better Bluetooth products.

Energy efficiency is important because it has an effect on how affordable and practical it will be to deploy a product. Wicentric’s portfolio includes a Bluetooth software stack and Sunrise Micro Devices’ radios run on less than 1 volt, which lets them run much longer on batteries or use harvested energy, according to ARM.

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