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Holiday Shopping with a “UWB Engineer”: The Saga Continues
As the smoke clears on the 2022 holiday season, our frazzled and notoriously shopping-impaired protagonist takes a much-needed breather and surveys what months of carefully considered holiday shopping has wrought. The results? Quite frankly the results could have been better. Here’s what transpired.
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SPARK Microsystems and UBITO Leverages UWB Technology by developing Wireless, Battery-less IoT Sensors
SPARK Microsystems and UBITO have partnered to develop a range of UWB-based wireless sensing and IoT solutions. This partnership will allow UBITO to leverage SPARK Microsystems’ UWB technology for wireless, battery-less sensor applications in multiple industries, including smart home, industrial automation, and condition monitoring.
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SPARK Microsystems Blog: For Wireless Gaming Mice, UWB Achieves New Performance Benchmarks on the Path to Seamlessly Interactive AR/VR
In order to architect the AR/VR connected devices of tomorrow, we must first solve the connectivity needs of wireless devices today. And for traditional gaming and audio apps, it’s clearer than ever that collectively we’re reaching the outer limits of what’s possible with legacy short-range connectivity platforms. The time for UWB is right now.
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Wireless Audio, Installation Audio, and Multiroom Improvements in audioXpress December 2022
In an audioXpress contributed article, SPARK Microsystems addresses the advantages of using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology to achieve high-quality wireless audio streaming and how UWB radios can be deployed effectively as a high speed and low latency data communication method, exceeding the performance of traditional narrowband devices and enabling uncompressed hi-res audio streams at 24-bit/96kHz with millisecond latency and very low power consumption.
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SPARK Microsystems Blog: Good Citizenship Among Great Protocols - Planning for Future Interoperability Between UWB, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
For applications like wireless gaming and audio, positioning/location awareness, and mobile AR/VR in the metaverse, it’s crucial that we work together to ensure UWB’s seamless coexistence among complementary short-range wireless technologies like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
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SPARK Microsystems Shows Way-Forward for Wireless Audio Over UWB
audioXpress covers the details of the joint SPARK Microsystems and UWB Alliance coexistence testing and aggregation capabilities of UWB technology in environments where other UWB or other wireless protocols and radio devices are in use.
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SPARK Microsystems Blog: Getting Started Quickly with SPARK UWB for IoT Sensors: Introducing SPARK’s New Wireless Sensor Kit
At the upcoming Sensors Converge event, SPARK will be on hand to highlight the many advantages that UWB delivers for sensor applications compared to legacy short-range wireless platforms like Bluetooth. For Smart Factory and Smart Home apps, among others, wireless sensors are proving increasingly advantageous.
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SPARK Microsystems Blog: UWB’s Sustainability Advantages: IoT Sensors with “No Wires, No Batteries”
Just as short-range wireless technology paved the way for deploying sensors without wires, UWB holds the promise for a future of sensors deployed without batteries. Power-sipping technology like UWB sets the stage for a future of battery-less IoT sensor devices that leverage energy harvesting technologies to derive their own power.
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SPARK Microsystems Blog: UWB Puts the Mobility in the Metaverse
SPARK UWB is the short-range wireless connectivity platform best optimized for metaverse enabling devices like AR glasses, gloves and other peripherals, providing the robust, high-quality data comms necessary for enabling seamless metaverse immersion on the fly – with the power efficiency to ensure long usage times between device charges.
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With $7.1M in SDTC Funds, SPARK Microsystems Aims to Make Wireless Tech More Energy Efficient
Spark Microsystems has secured $7.1 million in funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to accelerate the development and commercialization of its wireless UWB transceivers.
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SPARK Microsystems Blog: UWB in the Multisensory Metaverse, Part III: Touch and Haptics
Immersion in the metaverse would be fundamentally incomplete absent our ability to touch objects, environments and other avatars, gathering the tactile information we rely on to fuse our full perception and complete the sensory loop. This SPARK Microsystems post focuses on touch and haptics in the metaverse.
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Designing with UWB: Short-Range Wireless Apps Reimagined with Performance Far Beyond Bluetooth
With 10x faster data throughput, 60x less latency, and 40x better energy efficiency, UWB prompts a fresh look at design considerations from payload sizing to testing/certification and antenna design.
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What’s the Difference Between Bluetooth and UWB for High-Speed Data and Multimedia?
For nearly 20 years, Bluetooth has dominated as the short-range technology for wirelessly connected devices. But UWB’s latency and power-efficiency advantages position it as a compelling alternative with faster, freer dataflow and low power consumption.
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