Accelerometer Sensors Will Be Embedded In Clothing In The Future

Here in the world Clothing shoes and hats The small knitting of the web introduces that the accelerometer sensor will be embedded in the clothing in the future, and the sports bracelet will go away.

A company called mCube has developed a new accelerometer sensor, which is small enough and cheap enough to be used in clothing And sports equipment. Smartphones and fitness trackers are usually integrated with accelerometer sensors to sense the user's movement.

The size of the new accelerometer sensor is 1mm, which is less than half of the traditional accelerometer sensor. MCube said that the new accelerometer sensor has higher measurement accuracy, lower energy consumption and lower production cost. Ben Lee, CEO of mCube, said, "The new accelerometer sensor can be embedded in clothes. Because of its small size, users can not even feel its existence. Users can embed the new accelerometer sensor in golf suits. After playing a shot, they can immediately see the detailed analysis data about the playing action on their smart phones."

Generally speaking, accelerometer usually consists of two chips: one is a mechanical device responsible for detecting movement, and the other is a chip that senses the signal output by the previous chip. By integrating these two chips into one chip, the mCube not only reduces the size of the accelerometer sensor, but also improves the signal quality.

MCube said that the sensitivity of the new accelerometer sensor is high enough to replace the gyroscope in smart phones. This may enable the cheapest smart phone to have fine motion sensing function. Some low-end smart phones do not have gyroscopes.

MCube has delivered nearly 70 million sensors for smart phones to Chinese customers. MCube recently raised 37 million US dollars (about 228 million yuan) from venture capital companies to expand its production scale and enter other markets.

Mike Rosa, project manager of Applied Materials, a semiconductor equipment and service provider, said that the company's customers were also interested in the highly integrated single chip accelerometer sensor. Rosa said that Applied Materials is developing relevant technologies to produce such chips using the latest materials, including silicon and germanium.

To achieve the long-term goal of mCube - embedding accelerometer sensors in clothing, better technology Provide them with power and communication functions. Several experimental energy collection or wireless charging technologies will enable the long-term goal of mCube to be realized finally.