Partnership between SPARK Microsystems and Softgent for developing highly efficient wireless communication and locating technology
The partnership between SPARK Microsystems and Softgent is set to redefine the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, extending the reach of SPARK's breakthrough Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology. This collaboration aims to provide customers in healthcare and industrial markets with breakthrough efficiencies using SPARK technology.
Unprecedented Benefits and Applications
The collaboration leverages SPARK's second-generation SR1120 transceiver, integrated with Softgent's scalable IoT platforms. Key benefits include:
- Ultra-efficient wireless communication and positioning offering breakthrough performance and power efficiency, with wireless data rates of 40.96 Mbps, approximately 40 times faster than Bluetooth.
- Extended battery life with power consumption low enough to extend device autonomy up to 10 times longer than Bluetooth, without compromising performance, crucial for healthcare wearables and industrial sensors needing long-term deployment.
- High-precision real-time positioning, ranging, and tracking, vital for applications requiring spatial awareness such as patient monitoring systems or industrial asset tracking.
- Improved robustness to interference and low latency, enabling reliable operations in complex environments typical of hospitals and industrial facilities.
- Cost efficiency due to integrated design and lower power requirements, making it viable for high-volume deployment in IoT healthcare and industrial markets.
Transforming Connected Healthcare and Industrial IoT
Applications enabled by this collaboration include:
- Connected healthcare devices, where precise positioning, low power, and reliable communication improve patient monitoring, wearable health sensors, and automated tracking of medical equipment.
- Industrial IoT devices, such as asset and personnel tracking solutions, safety monitoring, and operational efficiency improvements, benefiting from real-time localization and ultra-low latency communication.
A Powerful Combination
The combined design acumen of Softgent and SPARK offers customers flexible, integrated UWB-based platforms at unrivaled cost efficiencies and ultra-low power profiles. In comparison to other UWB offerings in the market, SPARK delivers competing ranging capability at approximately 100X lower power consumption in a uniquely cost-effective architecture.
Softgent is supporting Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide in advancing their wireless solutions, as stated by Sylvain Jalbert, the VP of engineering at SPARK Microsystems. Marcin Hasse, the co-founder and CEO of Softgent, stated that the performance benefits enabled with SPARK LE-UWB technology are vital to the next generation of wirelessly connected healthcare and industrial devices.
Customers interested in partnering with Softgent and SPARK Microsystems are invited to contact them. For more information, visit the homepage for IoT Now at www.iot-now.com or follow them on Twitter at @IoTNow_.
[1] SPARK Microsystems Press Release, "SPARK Microsystems and Softgent Collaborate to Revolutionize IoT Devices", 2022. [2] Softgent Press Release, "Softgent and SPARK Microsystems Announce Collaboration Agreement", 2022.
- With the integration of SPARK's second-generation SR1120 transceiver and Softgent's scalable IoT platforms, customers in the home-and-garden, lifestyle, and home-automation sectors can expect an upgrade in their smart-home-devices, leveraging the UWB technology's ultra-efficient wireless communication and positioning.
- The technology partnership between SPARK Microsystems and Softgent extends beyond healthcare and industrial markets, intriguing tech enthusiasts and gadget lovers, as the collaboration's potential applications in data-and-cloud-computing and technology development are yet to be discovered.
- The combination of SPARK Microsystems' ultra-low power UWB technology and Softgent's IoT platforms presents an opportunity for future home-and-garden smart-home-devices manufacturers, as it enables cutting-edge capabilities such as high-precision real-time positioning and long-lasting battery life, revolutionizing the overall consumer lifestyle.
