News Highlights:
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NXP announces a new breed of Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) ranging
technology to offer security, precision sensing, and spatial context
behaviors for wireless devices.
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Technology features unique mix of 2D and 3D precise positioning with low
power consumption.
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Watch the video about NXP UWB technology
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 13, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
NXP Semiconductors N.V.
(NASDAQ:NXPI) announced at its annual developer conference in the
Silicon Valley its development of UWB technology designed
for a broad range of markets, including mobile, automotive,
Internet-of-Things (IoT) and industrial. NXP’s new UWB technology
brings secure ranging and precision sensing creating a new dimension of
spatial context for wireless devices. This strategic announcement sets the
stage for UWB-enabled use cases likely to emerge in the market as soon as
2020.
“NXP’s UWB sparks exciting new use cases that have never before been
possible,” said Kurt Sievers, President at NXP. “The
technology not only understands motion and relative positioning outdoors and
indoors, but its real-time robust accuracy can change the way we drive
efficiency in factories, play interactive games or use AR/AI applications on
our phones. We’re excited to share news of our our latest developments in this
space to bring us into a new era of intuitive on-demand applications.”
About NXP UWB Technology
This new generation of UWB is a major evolutionary step from the existing
wireless technologies, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. Its ability to
process contextual information such as the position of the UWB anchor, its
movements, and distance to other devices with an unprecedented precision of a
few centimeters, enables decision making and management of these devices to
take place with high granularity.
NXP UWB enables accurate localization capabilities. Doors and points of entry
will open once approaching them. Lights, audio speakers and any other
connected devices with sensors will be able to follow consumers from one room
to another, and smart connected technology will blend in more intuitively in
people’s lives.
NXP UWB Technology Benefits Include:
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UWB higher bandwidth channel provides greater instantaneous precision than
existing wireless technologies in challenging environments, leading to an
accuracy of a few centimeters.
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UWB enables latency sensitive applications, such as access, gaming, and AR,
by an efficient Time-of-Flight calculation.
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UWB adds a new level of security to car key fobs and can prevent relay
attacks by distinguishing the authentic signal from the relayed/spoofed
signal.
NXP’s UWB technology builds on our emerging connectivity portfolio with a
leading position in NFC and recent announcements in
5G RF Power
and
intent to acquire Marvell’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth assets.
NXP is sampling solutions to its early access partners and will be
demonstrating UWB capabilities at NXP Connects.
About NXP Connects 2019
NXP Connects is being held at the
Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Convention Center.
Attendees get hands-on with innovative products and solutions that enhance how
we live, work, and play.
Click here
for the full agenda focused on how to turn smart technologies into brilliant
applications -- from driverless vehicles to home automation and industrial
IoT.
About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors N.V.
(NASDAQ: NXPI) enables secure connections and infrastructure for a smarter
world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better, and safer. As the
world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP
is driving innovation in the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security and
privacy, and smart connected solutions markets. Built on more than 60 years of
combined experience and expertise, the company has approximately 30,000
employees in more than 30 countries and posted revenue of
$9.41 billion in 2018. Find out more at
www.nxp.com.
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