Airgain has secured two data center IoT design wins for its NimbeLink embedded cellular modems, targeting power monitoring and rack-level power distribution systems used in AI and high-performance computing environments. The wins center on keeping electrical infrastructure connected for monitoring, diagnostics, and remote management as facilities push to higher power density and tighter uptime requirements.
One of the design wins, previously disclosed on the company’s Q2 2026 earnings call, is with an “electrical intelligence” provider serving AI-scale infrastructure across major data center environments. That customer selected Airgain’s NimbeLink Cat 1 bis embedded modem for an energy monitoring platform that uses sensing and analytics to improve visibility into power consumption and equipment health. Airgain ties that visibility to practical operational outcomes including improved energy efficiency, support for preventive maintenance, and reduced unplanned downtime.
The second, newly disclosed design win is with an intelligent power management provider that Airgain says has more than 20 years of experience and over 250,000 PDUs deployed. In this design, the customer built Airgain’s NimbeLink Cat M1 embedded modem into its smart PDU platform, which provides rack-level power distribution, monitoring, and remote control for servers and networking equipment. Airgain notes that the customer is targeting data centers—specifically AI and other high-density computing environments—as a growth market for its intelligent PDU products.
For data center operators, the technical implication is straightforward: embedding cellular in power and monitoring gear can create an independent out-of-band path when the primary wired network or Wi-Fi isn’t available. That matters most during incident response, when losing visibility into power and environmental telemetry can slow recovery or force hands-on intervention.
“AI data centers require much more than servers and GPUs to operate at scale and maintain uptime,” said Jacob Suen, President and CEO of Airgain. “They also depend on reliable power, cooling and monitoring systems to keep that compute capacity running.”
Airgain’s NimbeLink embedded modems use pre-certified designs, which the company says is intended to reduce wireless integration complexity and speed deployment for IoT developers.
Airgain provides wireless connectivity products across 5G and IoT markets. NimbeLink is part of its embedded cellular modem portfolio.
Source: Airgain
