Ultra-Wideband has received a lot of recent attention as handset makers like Apple and Samsung begin to roll it out and big players in the automotive industry make serious moves in the secure car access space. What makes these use cases possible is UWB’s ability to provide spatial awareness to smart edge devices.
In this episode of the Smarter World Podcast, EE Times Editor Nitin Dahad is joined by Charles Dachs, VP and General Manager, Secure Embedded Transactions, NXP Semiconductors, and Ramesh Songukrishnasamy, SVP & CTO at HID Global to explore how this technology is leveraged and what these movements mean to the access space, to the consumer and for the UWB ecosystem overall.
The conversation spans UWB’s evolution from a data transfer technology to its new role as a fine ranging technology. Learn how it fits into the connectivity landscape, how consumers will adopt it, the opportunities for exciting new use cases and the importance of standardization.
“…we see UWB interest in indoor navigation, real time location services in industrial environments, ticket validation for public transport services, tap-free complete hands free mobile payment experiences where you walk in a payment area to checkout from shopping ,social distancing, virtual reality, gaming applications…. there is really a wide range of interesting use cases out there”
Charles Dachs“We believe it will enable many new location-based services whether it is access, device-to-device communication in IoT applications, both in the consumer electronics space as well as in industrial applications…. it is something we are quite excited about because the potential of UWB technology managing access to physical and digital places, things and identities is fundamental to our offerings…”
Ramesh Songukrishnasamy
Listen to the Smarter World Podcast here.
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