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Since the iPhone 11 announcement, theories have abounded that Apple’s new U1 wireless chip is actually a Decawave Ultra Wideband DW1000. But it turns out the iPhone’s ultra wideband chip is Apple’s own design, and they have some exciting plans for it.

Imec has developed a impulse-radio UWM transmitter IC measuring 0.155mm², with a power consumption of less than 10 milliwatt (mW), fabbed in 28nm CMOS.

At the recent ISSCC conference, imec presented a fast and low-power UWB transmitter chip and a low-power flexible MPU.

Learn more about UWB technology & how it is powering more precise, quick & reliable indoor positioning & asset tracking experiences than ever before.

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Devices equipped with the Apple-designed Ultra Wideband chip have technology for spatial awareness. Learn which iPhone models and which countries or regions support Ultra Wideband.

Locate and interact with nearby devices using identifiers, distance, and direction.

The Nearby Interaction framework makes it easy to integrate Ultra Wideband (UWB) in your apps and hardware accessories.

Some embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product for managing the Ultra Wideband (UWB) systems, especially when the UWB system is collocated with another wireless system (e.g., WiFi) to transmit and/or receive UWB signals with an occupied bandwidth (OBW) that satisfies a UWB OBW standard (e.g., a UWB OBW>=500 MHz.) In some embodiments a TailBit signal (e.g., a periodic signal at a selected frequency) is added to a UWB packet to generate frequency components at the selected frequency that enables the power spectrum of the TailBit UWB signal to satisfy the UWB OBW standard. In some embodiments an altered code sequence is used to generate an altered spread signal, where the altered code sequence reduces or removes a frequency component peak near DC frequency of the power spectrum of an altered UWB signal, resulting in altered UWB OBW that satisfies the UWB OBW standard.

This invention generally relates to ultra wideband (UWB) communication, and in particular to methods and apparatus for enabling such communicationWC 1 through a building, comprising generating a UWB signal and coupling the UWB signal to at least one electrical conductor of a mains power supply circuit of the building to distribute the UWB signal. This facilitates implementation of a UWB network with reduced interference. AlterWC 1native building wiring systems may be employed such as Cat 5 for computer networking or onWC 1e or two conducters of a telephone cable. The coupling may be direct or contactless such as capacitative coupling.

The article is dicussing the vibration mesurement possibilities and the translation from acceleration to velocity.

Detect anomalies in industrial-machine vibration data using machine learning and deep learning.

ETSI Ultra Wide Band technology page

COPD is a progressive disease that may lead to death if not diagnosed and treated at an early stage. The examination of vital signs such as respiration rate is a promising approach for the detection of COPD. However, simultaneous consideration of the demographic and medical characteristics of patients is very important for better results. The objective of this research is to investigate the capability of UWB radar as a non-invasive approach to discriminate COPD patients from healthy subjects. The non-invasive approach is beneficial in pandemics such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, where a safe distance between people needs to be maintained. The raw data are collected in a real environment (a hospital) non-invasively from a distance of 1.5 m. Respiration data are then extracted from the collected raw data using signal processing techniques. It was observed that the respiration rate of COPD patients alone is not enough for COPD patient detection. However, incorporating additional features such as age, gender, and smoking history with the respiration rate lead to robust performance. Different machine-learning classifiers, including Naïve Bayes, support vector machine, random forest, k nearest neighbor (KNN), Adaboost, and two deep-learning models—a convolutional neural network and a long short-term memory (LSTM) network—were utilized for COPD detection. Experimental results indicate that LSTM outperforms all employed models and obtained 93% accuracy. Performance comparison with existing studies corroborates the superior performance of the proposed approach.

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Use X4M05 UWB radar readings to recover voice from speaker vibration - GitHub - nesl/uwb_vibration_eavesdropping: Use X4M05 UWB radar readings to recover voice from speaker vibration

A method and device for measuring biometric data using a UWB radar are disclosed. The disclosed method includes: (a) determining a respiratory rate by using reflection signals reflected off a target patient; (b) extracting respiration signals from the reflection signals, removing the extracted respiration signals from the reflection signals and converting into signals of a frequency domain; and (c) determining a heartbeat rate by detecting peak values from the frequency-domain signals converted in said step (b).

Download scientific diagram | System model showing the vibration sensor, LIDAR, and ultra-wide band (UWB) sensor for the data collection. We have also Implemented the AI algorithms on the host computer. from publication: Detection and Classification of Human Activity for Emergency Response in Smart Factory Shop Floor | Factory shop floor workers are exposed to threats and accidents due to their encounter with tools, equipment, and toxic materials. There are cases of occupational accidents resulting in injuries to workers and precipitating lawsuits, which on the other hand affect company's... | Floors and Floorcoverings, Factorials and Shopping | ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists.

The utility model reveals a UWB-to-Bluetooth device, and the device comprises: a UWB module which is in wireless communication with UWB terminal equipment; a Bluetooth module which is in wireless communication with Bluetooth terminal equipment; a microprocessor which is connected with the Bluetooth module and the UWB module; and a power module which supplies power to the device. The device provided by the utility model achieves the mutual communication between the Bluetooth equipment and the UWB equipment, solves a problem of communication between equipment and the UWB terminal, provides a convenient mode of communication to a user, and improves the additional value of an electronic product with a Bluetooth, wherein the equipment has the Bluetooth technology and does not have the UWB technology.

System and method for transparently attaching wireless peripherals to a computer using an UWB wireless network. A preferred embodiment comprises an interface (for example, interface 630 ), a communications bus (for example, a USB 620 ), and an UWB wireless network adapter (for example, an UWB transceiver 610 ). The interface translates messages from either the communications bus or the UWB wireless network adapter so that a software stack is not needed to perform the translation at a later time. This helps to maintain the computer's reliability and performance. The system and method also affords wireless connectivity without the presence of a computer system.

While ultra-wide band (UWB) technology has so far been presented by several chip companies as a technology for fine ranging applications, a Montreal, UWB tranceivers address needs of products like gaming peripherals and audio and AR/VR headsets, which would otherwise need to be wired to meet power and latency targets.