Capturing your heart rate from your wearable watch or patch was slick. But fitness enthusiasts are raising the bar and expecting manufacturers to step up to the bar with them. As wearables continue to move into consumer health applications, end users are expecting additional metrics such as heart rate variability, recovery rate — basically as […]
Wearables
HMI software works with industrial wearable devices
ICONICS announces the integration of its human machine interface (HMI) software technology with the HMT-1 head-mounted, industrial wearable, a 100% hands-free tablet class device from RealWear. ICONICS GENESIS64 HMI/SCADA and building automation suite (V10.95) includes Any Glass technology that can be used with self-contained head-wearable computing devices. This combination of ICONICS software with hardware like RealWear’s HMT-1 […]
SiP for wearables includes NFC, antenna for extended secure payment features
As consumers become increasingly comfortable with making secure transactions using their smart devices, traditional card manufacturers want to extend their offers into contactless wearable products for uses such as payments, ticketing, and access control. These can be difficult to implement within tight size and cost constraints, because conventional separate NFC-radio and security chips demand extra […]
Super-small RFID chip includes integrated antenna
Item size and materials have long been barriers to using RAIN RFID solutions. Today, Murata Americas introduced the latest version of its ultra-small RAIN RFID Tag with integrated antenna – the LXMSJZNCMF-198 that address those size and materials constraints. Measuring just 1.25 x 1.25 x 0.55mm, the LXMS-198 is capable of withstanding over-molding and embedded processes and provides tracking and […]
Camera module boosts processing power of 3D sensing applications
CEVA, Inc. announced today a partnership with LG Electronics to deliver a high-performance, low-cost smart 3D camera solution for consumer electronics and robotic applications with a 3D camera module incorporates a Rockchip RK1608 coprocessor with multiple CEVA-XM4 imaging and vision DSPs. The DSPs provide the processing power to perform a wide variety of 3D sensing applications. […]
Development kit speeds debugging of ARC-based SoCs
Synopsys, Inc. announced the new DesignWare ARC IoT Development Kit to accelerate software development and debug of ARC processor-based system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The ARC IoT Development Kit includes a silicon implementation of the ARC Data Fusion IP Subsystem as well as a rich set of peripherals commonly used in IoT designs such as USB, I3C and PWM. […]
Color display module/touch interface ganged with Android operating system for WaRP7 development platform
Farnell element14, the Development Distributor, has introduced an integrated color display module with touch interface, along with the Android SDK (software development kit), for the WaRP7 development platform, which targets IoT and wearable applications. The WaRP7 LCD module incorporates a standard MIPI display with DSI (display serial interface) and I2C (inter-integrated circuit) interfaces and is […]
Low-energy PHY IP achieves Bluetooth 5 qualification
Synopsys, Inc. announced that the silicon-proven DesignWare Bluetooth Low Energy Link Layer IP and PHY IP in industry-standard 40-nanometer (nm) and 55-nm processes have achieved Bluetooth 5 qualification and have been declared compliant by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. Achieving qualification ensures the robustness of the IP and that it functions as expected within a system-on-chip (SoC). […]
Low-power ARM MCUs carry up to 2 MB flash, 512 KB RAM
Silicon Labs has expanded its energy-friendly EFM32® Gecko portfolio with industrial-strength microcontrollers (MCUs) delivering higher performance, more features and lower power. The new EFM32GG11 Giant Gecko MCU family offers the most advanced feature set available in the low-power MCU market, targeting smart metering, asset tracking, industrial/building automation, wearables and personal medical applications. Giant Gecko MCUs combine […]
Dual-band Wi-Fi module supports 4k video streaming
Amp’ed RF Wireless Technology, an international provider of advanced IoT wireless modules, announces the availability of its WF61 module. A module specifically designed to make wireless streaming video supporting up to HD 4k imaging. As image processing technology improves, we’re seeing more connectivity bandwidth bottlenecks. Infrastructure needs to improve to support 4k imaging. The WF61 […]
