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Did you know that humans breathe in more than 10,000 l / day and spend 90 % of their life in buildings? Indoor air quality strongly affects our health and well-being as well as the risk of virus infections via Aerosols, such as COVID-19. The BME680 sensor has been developed to detect exhaled human breath and outputs an index of air quality.

In this 45-minute on-demand webinar, we give you an overview of environmental sensing in relation to indoor air quality. You will see why and how sensing solutions help fight the spread of COVID-19.

Whether at home, in the office or outdoors, we need to be confident that the air around us is clean and safe to breathe – COVID-19 has clearly highlighted the importance of air quality. Due to the particulates, gases and even airborne viruses ubiquitously present in our modern environment, poor air quality has an increasingly negative impact on our health and well-being. To address this growing need, Bosch Sensortec has announced the BME688, the first air quality MEMS sensor that combines gas, humidity, temperature and barometric pressure sensing with innovative artificial intelligence (AI) capability.

The world’s first self-learning AI sensor for wearables and hearables is based on Edge AI. Having an “edge” like that on your wrist makes your fitness tracker individually tailored to you and the way you move. With each movement it adjusts itself. The sensor provides more reliable analytics and reduces the need for data storage space, eliminating data transmission to the cloud. Keeping you in control of your data. Melena and Geoff learn from product manager Kaustubh Gandhi and research scientist Thomas Nilsson what went into the development of this new approach to fitness trackers.

Wearable fitness trackers are rapidly growing in popularity. A barometric pressure sensor enables the wearable to detect changes in the user’s elevation, for example when walking up or down stairs, for calculating the number of calories that the user is burning. Until now, many barometric pressure sensors have not been resistant against liquids and thus it has been challenging to integrate them into waterproof products. To address this issue, Bosch Sensortec developed the BMP384, a robust barometric pressure sensor delivering market-leading accuracy in a compact package.

Covid-19 quickly became a worldwide pandemic because of the virus's ability to easily spread from person to person. To reduce the risk of infection, it is important to keep the indoor concentration of exhaled breath as low as possible. This means: rooms need to be ventilated whenever the concentration of exhaled air increases significantly, and to ventilate them correctly.

What is smaller than the nail of your little finger, has artificial intelligence in it, and can analyze the air in a room and tell you to open the window when there are too many aerosols floating around? The answer: Microelectromechanical systems – MEMS for short. In this podcast episode, the hosts are talking to Bosch experts Emma Abel and Richard Fix to learn about the latest fields of application for MEMS.

Squats, crunches or kettlebell swings: The list of fitness exercises available nowadays is almost endless. Many fitness trackers or smartwatches, however, offer only a very limited number of activities that can be tracked and do not recognize activities reliably due to different performance styles, equipment, heights and energy levels of users.

Fitness tracking is presently experiencing a huge upswing in popularity. The market for fitness trackers and step counters has surged by 65% year-on-year, with just the Fitbit platform alone claiming nearly 30 million active users. Current activity tracking devices have demonstrated the huge market potential of this segment and have laid the groundwork for next-generation AI-enabled devices to take centre stage as individual fitness tracking goes mainstream.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a natural and integral part of our everyday lives – working silently and unnoticed in the background. AI makes sense of the multitude of data streaming in from various sensors to deliver detailed and precise insights, which have the potential to increase the utility of virtually all electronic devices on the market today.

Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the launch of Charlie, a turnkey innovation kit for fast, inexpensive development of Arduino-based, LTE-powered IoT applications.

The support of the Qeexo AutoML platform enables application developers to easily add intelligence to small devices such as wearables, making a world of one trillion intelligent devices a closer reality.

Bosch Sensortec is launching a longevity program and expanding its product portfolio to meet the specific needs of industrial applications. By ensuring products will be available for ten years, this new program will give customers peace of mind, as well as access to high-performance, robust sensors, and increased purchasing flexibility due to smaller reel sizes.

Poor air quality can greatly impact your health and well-being. Two important indicators for air pollution measurement are small particulate matters of 2.5 microns or less and volatile organic compounds. But what is your personal exposure to particles or gases? And how can you measure this reliably? New sensor technologies can now provide a solution.

Bosch Sensortec has been developing innovative sensor software solutions in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. through their Qualcomm® Platform Solutions Ecosystem program.

Bosch Sensortec announces the BMP390, a barometric pressure sensor that delivers unmatched accuracy for altitude tracking in smartphones as well as wearable and hearable devices.

London, February 19, 2020 – Telit today announced Bravo, a turnkey evaluation kit for rapidly developing and deploying a wide variety of IoT solutions, including drones, wearables, smart home devices and more. The evaluation kit features three Bosch Sensortec environmental and motion sensors.

MEMS sensors enabling connectivity.

Nordic Semiconductor announces the introduction of the ‘Thingy:91’ rapid cellular IoT prototyping platform

Global seminar series provides key insights into the technologies revolutionizing the consumer and industrial Internet of Things (IoT) markets

Bosch Sensortec announces a new variant of its high-performance BMA456 accelerometer at Sensors Expo & Conference in San Jose, California. The BMA456 hearable accelerometer is the industry’s only accelerometer with optimized hearable features integrated in one sensor and complements the existing BMA456 wearable variant.

Bosch Sensortec’s sensing solutions provide market-leading solutions for up-and-coming applications such as smart homes and wearables. They combine the high performance, innovative features and low power consumption demanded by these rapidly growing market segments.

This small form-factor platform includes Bosch Sensortec’s highly integrated BME680 environmental sensor to detect a broad range of gases for air quality applications, as well as our BMM150 geomagnetic sensor and the BHI160 smart sensor for high accuracy motion sensing.

Bosch Sensortec has launched a new ideation community for customers, partners, developers and makers to learn about sensing solutions and to accelerate the development of innovative IoT applications.

At CES® in Las Vegas, Nevada, Bosch Sensortec announced the BMI270, an ultra-low power smart Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) specifically targeted at wearable applications.

Reutlingen/Munich, Germany – At electronica Munich, Bosch Sensortec announces the BHI160BP, the industry’s first Position Tracking Smart Sensor that utilizes integrated inertial sensors to improve GPS location tracking.

Reutlingen, Germany – Bosch Sensortec launches the BMI260 family, a new generation of high-performance MEMS Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) targeted at smartphone applications. The family comprises of three sensors – BMI260, BMI261 and BMI263.

Bosch Sensortec's BMA400, an ultra-low power MEMS acceleration sensor for IoT and wearable applications, is now available worldwide through distributors.

San Jose, USA/Reutlingen, Germany – Today, at Sensors Expo in San Jose, California, Bosch Sensortec announced the BHI260 and BHA260, the first two members of a new generation of smart sensor hubs. These new devices are optimized for 24/7, always-on sensor processing and feature ultra-low power consumption.

Nuremberg, Germany – February 27, 2018: Bosch Sensortec today introduces a new high performance barometric pressure MEMS sensor: the BMP388 is ideally suited for altitude tracking in Consumer Electronics (CE) drones, wearables, smart homes and other applications.

At electronica China in Shanghai, Bosch Sensortec launches the BMI085, a high-performance 6-axis Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). The BMI085 integrates a 3-axis, 16-bit MEMS acceleration sensor and a 3-axis, 16-bit MEMS gyroscope in a single compact package.

At the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, USA, Bosch Sensortec launches the MEMS sensor BMI088, a high-performance Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) with outstanding vibration robustness, specifically designed for drone and robotics applications.

At the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, USA, Bosch Sensortec is launching the BMA400, an ultra-low power acceleration sensor for wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

Arrow Electronics has launched the ARIS EDGE (Arrow Renessas IoT Synergy) development platform, which lets designers accelerate development of low-power Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Arrow Electronics signs global agreement with Bosch Sensortec to adress IoT. Arrow's IoT portfolio includes a comprehensive range of hardware component, development platforms and software tools.

The BME680 combines pressure, humidity, temperature and indoor air quality measurement function for IoT applications. Available worldwide starting from July 17, 2017.

A new family of MEMS acceleration sensors for wearable devices, offering high performance and ease of integration in compact packages.

Robert Bosch GmbH and, correspondingly, Bosch Sensortec as a wholly owned subsidiary has joined the MIPI® Alliance as a Contributor Member.

Embedded World 2016: Advantech, ARM, Bosch Sensortec, Sensirion and Texas Instruments, announced the collaboration of a new IoT sensor platform called M2.COM.

We are pleased to announce that Stefan Finkbeiner has been recognized for his top of the class managerial skills by the renowned magazine Markt & Technik. He has been presented with the `Manager of the Year´ Award for the category Sensors.

QuickLogic selects Bosch Sensortec motion sensors for EOS S3 sensor processing SoC reference design.

BMF055, the industry's first custom programmable 9-axis motion sensor was recognized for Innovation.

The platform is based on industry's lowest power BLE sensor node. Delivering over 4X more battery life and faster time to market, platform comes complete with Microchip's MCU, Bluetooth® low energy and sensor technology.

Bosch employees invent new applications with the BNO055 9-axis ASSN. More than 200 ideas received in the idea and marker competition.

Our world is inextricably turning truly semi-virtual. A great example of this is a new mobile app that has taken the world by storm: Pokémon GO, which became the top grossing game within 24 hours of its release.

Sensors solutions enable wearable devices

Bosch Sensortec launches industry's first custom programmable 9-axis motion sensor.