Wearable is a popular application in the Internet of Things market, but it still faces many challenges. On December 2, 2016, the 3rd China IoT Conference on Intelligent Wearable Sub-Forum held by Huaqiang Jufeng's Electronic Enthusiasts Network The talents from EDOM Technology, New Japan Wireless, Sai Microelectronics, Dialog, Smart Watch, Cypress, and ChargEdge LLC shared the wearable challenges and solutions.
EDOM Technology FAE Xie Xianguo
Yi Deng Technology Xie Xianguo first appeared, he introduced: "Yi Deng is an agent in Taiwan, representing more than 60 product lines, and is also the largest agent of Silicon Labs in mainland China." The wearable market has grown from $8 billion in 2013. In 2017, the product category also covers sports tracking, smart bracelets, smart watches, smart headphones, smart glasses and so on. Wearable devices are designed to take into account battery life, size models, features, connectivity, time to market, and cost.
Silicon Labs' wearable product solutions are divided into sensors, MCUs, wireless and development tools. Xie Xiangguo detailed the various products of Silicon Labs wearable solutions, including the industry's first single-chip digital UV index sensor Si1132UV, the world's most energy-efficient microcontroller Silicon Labs EFM32.
New Japan Wireless General Manager Xia Bing
Xia Bing, general manager of New Japan Wireless, first talked about the concept of wearables and gave a brief explanation of the current status of the wearable market. He said: "Dressable is a good direction for both sports and health monitoring. Wearable sensors and technology have been around for a long time, but because they have not been miniaturized, they have not been popularized."
The next summer manager's speech is divided into four parts: the latest photoelectric sensor wearable applications and integration solutions, heart rate monitoring (HRM) application for "In-ear" in-ear headphones, and "Wrist" wrist heart rate monitoring (HRM) ) Application, GNSS FEM (Front-End Module) for wearable devices.
Jiang Yanbo, General Manager of Saiwei Electronics
Jiang Yanbo, general manager of Weiwei Electronics, brought the "Power Management Solution for Wearable Devices and IoT". His speech first introduced Saiwei Company, and Saiwei focused on power management solutions. Next, I shared the challenges of wearable devices, Saiwei's wearable solutions, structure and product features.
Mr. Jiang said: "One of the core issues of wearable devices is the battery life, and the two methods for increasing the standby time of wearable devices are open source and throttling. What can be done by Saiwei is open source." The challenge is that the company has a charge management IC, a PMIC, and a Gas Gauge IC product that improves the user experience by 1%. Mr. Jiang has detailed the structure and characteristics of these products.
Dialog product director Tong Wei
Dialog's product director Tong Wei takes "From Evolution to the Internet of Things" as the theme, which is divided into three parts: natural evolution, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things, and Dialog's IoT layout. The same manager believes: "Artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are closely linked, and the Internet of Things is the collection of small data." Artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are bound to have an impact on society.
The same manager said: "43% of the work in the United States may be replaced by AI." There are many application areas for Dialog Semiconductor, which focuses on energy-saving technologies. The growth of wearable and smart homes has prompted Dialog to launch IoT wireless MCU products, including the groundbreaking SmartBond DA14681. The same manager believes: "The Internet of Things era has just begun, in order to sustain the growth of the IoT market, we need to continue to innovate."
He Qingjun, founder of smart watch movement
He Qingjun, the founder of the smart watch, began to throw out the question of whether Chinese companies can lead the world in an industry. He said: "China is not lacking in products, technology or teams, but lacks innovation." He believes that the two core characteristics of wristband products are closer to people and longer.
Wristband products have passed: pocket watches, watches, mechanical watches, quartz watches, radio meters, smart bracelets, screen display smart watches. He believes that the future wristband products must have the following three elements: 1. The user will not generate strong rejection hardware as a hardware platform for data tracking, crawling, and pushing; 2. Meet low power requirements and will not give people It causes troubles in daily use; 3. It is smaller in size, closer to the human body, and beautiful in appearance, so that users are willing to wear it for a long time. In order to realize the PMPD system, the smart watch has introduced different series of watch movements, and has also achieved certain results in motion recognition algorithms and power consumption.
Cypress Regional Marketing Manager He Peng
Cypress He Peng's speech started from two aspects: wireless connection technology and touch technology. He said: "In recent years, the semiconductor industry has undergone great changes, and there are many mergers and acquisitions. Cypress has made two mergers and acquisitions in the last two years. The important thing is to complete the acquisition of Broadcom's IoT department."
In the wireless connection section, Mr. He introduced Broadcom's industry-leading Wi-Fi and Bluetooth products, and the classification of these products is based on the complexity of the chip's products. Manager He said: "Cypress will release CORE ELP in 2017, which will support wearable and IoT devices." Cypress's touch technology is the industry's number one, and its market share is four times that of the second. Cypress's touch technology features low power consumption and simple debugging. It has been applied to smart watches such as Huawei, Vivo and Pebble. At the same time, Cypress has an innovative BLE+ touch SoC.
ChargEdge LLC Partner Li Wei
Li Wei of ChargEdge LLC brings a presentation on "Disruptive Wireless Power Conversion Solutions for IoT and Wearables." Mr. Li believes: "The wireless charging market is currently mainly large wearable devices and smart phones, but the growth rate is not satisfactory. The reason is that the surface wearable devices hinder the adoption of wireless charging technology, while the mainstream wireless charging power is 5W, if It can be 1W - 100W and the cost reduction will accelerate the growth of the wireless charging market."
ChargEdge LLC is registered in California, USA, and provides 1W to 100W wireless power conversion solution. It is currently introduced by the company. ChargEdge LLC is a company that can provide 360 ​​degree wireless charging solution at 85kHz. ChargEdge LLC's wireless charging solution. Compared with the mainstream wireless charging scheme, the charging magnetic field density is increased by 10 times, the charging speed is increased by 10 times, the volume is reduced by 10 times, and the price is one tenth of the existing one. Mr. Li said: "ChargEdge LLC will subvert the existing wireless charging standards as its mission."
For the detailed speeches of the guests, please pay attention to the follow-up reports of the China IoT Conference of Electronic Enthusiasts.
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