Wearables

No company has more experience in wearables – or greater ability to help you develop one – than Nordic Semiconductor. In fact, Nordic’s wireless connectivity has underpinned wearables since the very start of the wearables market just over a decade ago.

Starting from simple activity trackers and wireless sportwatches, the continual evolution of Nordic’s wireless connectivity has enabled the wearables market to continually evolve in parallel. Today that includes state-of-the-art smartwatches, monitoring devices for healthcare and fitness, and wearable form-factors as small as rings.

Low power and AI in wearables

For wearables, weight is a key consideration because they are designed to be worn. This immediately limits the size and weight – so maximum capacity – of the battery that can be used. As a result, power consumption is always a critical design consideration.

Another key topic in wearables is the increasing use of AI and machine learning (ML) to further extend their accuracy and intelligence. But AI and ML has to be performed locally on the wearable device itself. This is because continuously sending data up to the cloud for AI analytics consumes a lot of battery-power that wearables, due to their small size and batteries, simply don’t have.

Nordic’s latest Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) combine advanced performance with ultra-low-low power consumption to maximize battery life and minimize battery size, and thus cost. This means wearables that can run all day on battery-power, no matter how heavily they are used.