Marketplace Overview

The Idle Robotics & Drones Marketplace will be complemented by the Idle MCU & IOT Marketplace to extract yield from another high value idle asset category. Embedded microcontrollers (MCUs) are inside many everyday appliances, whilst billions of IoT sensors and devices are being rolled out in both industrial and consumer contexts. Consider the following:

• A smart speaker like Amazon Echo may use its compute resources for only a few seconds per day when it responds to voice commands. The rest of the time, its digital signal processor (DSP) and MCU sit in idle or low-power standby.

• An industrial robot arm in a car factory may be scheduled for active tasks during production cycles but could remain idle for 40–60% of the day during reconfiguration, shift changes, or maintenance cycles.

• Billions of sensors and IoT devices (Internet of Things devices) are designed to report data intermittently (temperature every 5 minutes, motion detection every hour, etc.). Their compute capacity remains underutilized between reporting cycles.

Idle Network MCU & IOT marketplace solves this problem by bringing these devices on-chain and allowing in-need businesses to rent their idle capacity.