Dialog, Bosch collaborate on wireless sensor platform for IoT
The two companies have produced a low-power printed circuit board measuring 14mm by 14mm that contains multiple inertial sensors from Bosch Sensortec and Dialog’s DA14580 Bluetooth wireless transceiver.
The unit is suitable for gesture recognition in wearable computing devices and immersive gaming, including augmented reality, and for 3D indoor mapping and navigation, the companies said in a joint press release.
The Bosch Sensortec sensors are the BMM150 for 3-axis geo-magnetic field measurement, the BME280 pressure, humidity and temperature sensor, and the 6-axis BMI160 – a combination of a 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis gyroscope in one chip. The resulting unit consumes less than 500-microamps from a 3V coin cell when updating and transferring all 12 channels of 16bit data wirelessly to a smartphone. The DA14580 SmartBond SoC integrates a Bluetooth Smart radio with an ARM Cortex-M0 application processor and intelligent power management.
Dialog has been contemplating involvement in the MEMS and IoT market for many years and now, through its intended acquisition of Atmel, it will become a supplier of microcontrollers to Bosch Sensortec, the leading MEMS supplier in the world.
The agreement also provides a complementary pairing of Bosch’s position in MEMS with Dialog’s position as a supplier of Bluetooth and power management ICs providing most of the skills necessary for wireless sensor nodes that can be customized in software running on a microcontroller.
"From our companies’ joint experience, we see many opportunities to deliver competitive advantages for our customers by creating smaller, highly integrated and more energy efficient smart connected solutions," said Udo-Martin Gomez, CTO of Bosch Sensortec, in a statement.
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