# 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.\
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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:<br>

* 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. <br>