AT&T has expanded its relationship with Wiliot to provide its enterprise clients with AI-powered supply chains.
AT&T and Wiliot are shifting to device certification and system integration of Wiliot-ecosystem gateway devices on AT&T’s network. This will facilitate large-scale deployments, ongoing network operations, and data service delivery for the carrier’s customers.
The goal of the partnership is to provide item-level visibility across increasingly complex supply chains. Wiliot’s Physical AI platform provides a sensing and intelligence layer that processes signals from Wiliot IoT Pixels — battery-free Bluetooth sensors — using purpose-built AI and machine learning models. The result is real-time automated condition monitoring, inventory intelligence, and workflow optimization.
AT&T is contributing network infrastructure, cellular connectivity, and field execution — enabling these networks to be deployed at scale.
“Enterprises are looking for more than connectivity — they need actionable data from the physical world,” said AT&T Area Vice President Lee Wagner in a press release. “By working with Wiliot, we’re bringing a new class of Physical AI data into our ecosystem, adding visibility at the case and asset level, and enabling new services built on that data. We see Physical AI data as a significant emerging opportunity for AT&T and our customers.”
Late last year, AT&T and Wiliot established a systems integration collaboration enabling the carrier to deliver core deployment and operational capabilities across customer environments. AT&T designs, installs, and provides asset tagging and ongoing maintenance across active deployments. It serves as a scaled execution layer for Wiliot’s platform.
The press release says that the systems integration is being deployed by retailers, food and beverage companies, quick-service restaurants, and others.
AT&T says it completed a “significant portion” of field deployments during the first quarter. The carrier says that these deployments generated various optimizations:
- Improved inventory accuracy to 99% or higher
- Reduced dock-to-stock time from one to two days to two to six hours
- Reduced receiving labor by 30% to 50%
- Reduced misshipments by as much as 90%
- Reduced lost, damaged, and delayed packages by 60%
The AT&T/Wiliot initiative is not the only ongoing supply chain innovation project. Last May, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said that the third round of applications in the federal Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund had garnered 94 applications requesting almost $3 billion. The applications included proposals for more than $1.3 billion in private investment.
