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In this last part of our article series we discuss innovative applications that could already be developed. We hope you liked this series! 👍
Innovative Application
Driven by the staggering development of IoT technology, IoT applications are becoming more and more widely applied, which also leaves more spaces for Infineon sensors to meet innovative needs. For example, Toposens partnered with Infineon in 2021 to realize 3D obstacle detection and collision avoidance in autonomous systems using Infineon’s MEMS microphones and Toposens’ proprietary 3D ultrasound technology.
In order to implement innovative applications quickly, Infineon has been offering more possibilities in system and software innovation. In particular, Infineon’s Sensor 2GO and Shield2Go evaluation boards help customers quickly evaluate and prototype sensors. The Sensor 2GO Evaluation Board incorporates a sensor, combined with an ARM® Cortex®-M0 CPU to provide an on-board debugger. Additionally, various evaluation boards paring with Arduino and Raspberry PI can achieve plug and play as well as software library functions to support rapid development. Additionally, all interfaces are standard types, so that engineers may select the board as they wish and customize complex system-level solutions according to their needs.
For complex applications such as radar, Infineon offers an SDK and a library of basic algorithms, making it easier for users to develop software. A growing number of start-ups are using Infineon’s sensors for a wide range of IoT applications, which is a clear indication that Infineon’s strategy of lowering the innovation barriers has been a success.
For practical applications, single sensors have struggled to accurately describe behavior, and multi-sensor fusion is no longer exclusive to the automotive ADAS system. Sensor fusion is increasingly applied in the IoT market. Infineon’s multi-layered alarm system reference is a typical IoT sensor fusion application that uses data from MEMS microphones and barometric pressure sensors. The microphone detects acoustic events, such as the sound of glass breaking, while the pressure sensor detects pressure-changing events, such as changes in indoor air pressure before and after glass breaking. The two kinds of hardware are run by different algorithms, and are integrated by a complex sensor fusion algorithm. The system will only alert if both sensors are triggered simultaneously, making the glass breaking detection system more robust, and lowering false alarm rate. Moreover, the system can also detect any change of indoor air pressure caused by illegal intruders, so as to further realize the intrusion detection.
In another example, Infineon, together with XMOS, has introduced a new building block for voice recognition. It features a combination of radar and silicon microphone sensors from Infineon and audio processor from XMOS. The device provides far field voice recognition by audio beamforming combined with radar target presence detection.
Innovation is Everywhere
A variety of innovations in human-computer interaction have emerged repeatedly to develop comfortable, secure, time-saving and easy-to-use IoT devices. As the key to human-computer interaction, sensors need to offer a more intuitive and natural experience. In the meanwhile, the types of sensors should be more diversified for various application scenarios. More importantly, as Edge AI technology evolves, more data can be processed, which gives new scope to complex sensors that were not previously available for IoT applications.
In response to the current wave of sensors in the IoT era, Infineon is accelerating innovation from all angles, not just in the product itself, but in its application-oriented innovation strategy and innovative partnership, so as to meet new business forms in the fragmented and intelligent IoT.
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