SPARK Microsystems announced a collaboration agreement with Softgent, focused on supporting SPARK customers with wireless communications and positioning solutions. This partnership will help customers in healthcare and industrial sectors achieve high efficiencies using SPARK technology.
It will harness the benefits of SPARK’s ultra-wideband (SPARK LE-UWB) technology – embodied in its new, second-generation SR1120 transceiver – integrated with Softgent’s tailored, scalable platforms for high-performance wireless IoT.
The combined design expertise of Softgent and SPARK gives customers flexible, integrated UWB-based platforms at high cost efficiencies and ultra-low-power profiles that extend battery charges up to 10X longer than Bluetooth.
Softgent is drawing on SPARK’s performance in data delivery (40.96 Mbps, 40X higher than Bluetooth) complemented with significantly lower power consumption, latency and better interference robustness compared to Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 2.4GHz solutions. Compared with other UWB offerings in the market limited to ranging and positioning applications, SPARK delivers competing ranging capability at approximately 100X lower power consumption, in a uniquely cost-effective architecture.
“The performance benefits enabled with SPARK LE-UWB technology are vital to the next generation of wirelessly connected healthcare and industrial devices – from healthcare devices to robotics, ranging applications and beyond,” said Marcin Hasse, Co-Founder and CEO, Softgent. “OEMs have a real opportunity to differentiate and lead their markets with UWB-based technology. Softgent’s collaboration with SPARK will help customers seize this opportunity.”
“With proven IoT system design capabilities and a collaborative approach to customer enablement, Softgent supports OEMs worldwide in advancing their wireless solutions,” added Sylvain Jalbert, VP of Engineering, SPARK Microsystems. “This partnership extends the reach of SPARK’s breakthrough UWB technology, enabling customers to realise unmatched performance in wireless data communications and ranging: faster, more efficiently, and with greater impact.”
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