Wearable

Sensor technology, with what is claimed to be the industry’s lowest power Bluetooth Low Energy radio are combined in the RSL10 sensor development kit from ON Semiconductor.

The sensor development kit brings together the RSL10 system in package (SiP) with a range of advanced low power sensors from Bosch Sensortec to provide nine degrees of freedom (DoF) detection and environmental monitoring, including ambient light, volatile organic compounds (VOC), pressure, relative humidity and temperature. A low noise, digital microphone is also included, along with a user-programmable RGB LED, three programmable push-button switches, and 64kbit EEPROM.

The sensors are Bosch Sensortec’s integrated BME680 environmental sensor which detect a range of gases for air quality applications, its BMM150 geomagnetic sensor and the BHI160 smart sensor for high accuracy motion sensing. The RSL10 sensor kit combines motion and environmental sensing with the low power capabilities of the Bluetooth 5-certified RSL10, targeting both consumer and industrial IoT applications.

Developers can use the RSL10 Sense and Control mobile application to connect to the RSL10 sensor development kit to monitor sensors and to evaluate the kit’s features. The app also supports multiple commercial cloud platforms for uploading sensor data.

The RSL10 sensor development kit is available now. ON Semiconductor’s other energy-efficient, rapid prototyping platforms for IoT include the Bluetooth IoT development kit and the recently-introduced energy harvesting Bluetooth low energy switch.

The RSL10 is available in a 5.5mm² WLCSP, a 6.0 x 6.0mm QFN package, and a complete SiP with an integrated antenna.

ON Semiconductor will host a live demonstration of how service-provider companies can use the RSL10 sensor development kit to monitor worker safety at Embedded World (Nuremberg, Germany (26 to 28 February) at the company’s stand in Hall 4A – 260.

ON Semiconductor supplies energy-efficient, power management, analogue, sensors, logic, timing, connectivity, discrete, SoC and custom devices for automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial, medical, aerospace and defence applications.

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Location-aware wireless sensors from Nanotron target manufacturing, healthcare and mining, while the company’s 360° Edge Analytics tools process data from any sensor in conjunction with any location radio technology.

Location-aware sensors report their location and executing data analytics at the edge of the IoT means real-time performance with low-latency location-awareness for the industrial IoT (IIoT), reported Dr Jens Albers, CEO at nanotron. He went on to say that Nanotron’s 360° Edge Analytics delivers 360° visibility of events related to people, assets, machines and vehicles.

Location-aware sensors are built on Nanotron’s swarm bee tag-ready, smart RF modules, using a common API. Available deployment and productivity tools enables customers to scale up, to increase the number of tracked objects and the size of the monitored area. Offering a per-node coverage range of up to 500m, the solution tracks objects with an accuracy down to 100mm. It leverages the advantages of concurrent data communication, ranging and tracking and provides a power-efficient approach for extended battery life of mobile devices.

Functions can be as straightforward as automatic collision warning and real-time tracking. More sophisticated and powerful sensing and location-awareness capabilities can be added at deployment or in the future. Nanotron believes its step-by-step implementation simplifies the deployment process as well as software integration to minimise time to market.

Nanotron is a provider of electronic location awareness solutions to deliver position data augmented by context information in real-time.

http://www.nanotron.com