Siva will present at the conference on May 6 at the exhibition grounds, a smart watch based on the company's DSP, which includes five features on one processor: voice command processing, facial recognition, music player, Bluetooth communication and the ability to fuse sensors. The facial recognition feature will help the watch know if it is being watched or if it is just wasting battery
Sensors are, as you know, an integral part of the electronics industry for many decades. In recent years, many sensors have begun to connect to the Internet and report their data, where somewhere in the cloud, calculations are made on the data - which can be anything, from product quality on the production line, temperature sensors, and soon electricity and water meters, not to mention, of course, a common application already today - entire city networks on security cameras.
This opens a new era known as the "Internet of Things" - IoT. Billions of such devices are expected to be connected to the network. Cisco estimates that now (2015) there are countless applications worldwide, and the number will double by 2020
as mentioned, The Internet of Things is the main topic at the ChipEx2015 conference that will be held on May 6, 2015 at the Tel Aviv Exhibition Center. One of the lecturers at the conference is Eran Blaish, product marketing manager at Siva.
Siva will present in its booth, among other things, a DSP signal processor designed for IoT devices. In a conversation with chiportal and the science site, Blaish explains that there is a big difference between "stupid" devices that all they know is to connect to the Internet and transfer their data to the cloud and smart devices.
Let's take for example a smart light bulb that is controlled by a smartphone. It is actually a simple task since the person who activates the bulb and decides whether to turn it on or off is the person using the application on the phone. But what will happen if we add to this bulb the ability to process and recognize voice and image? It will be possible to activate it through a voice interface, a camera will be able to check if there is someone in the room to operate only when a person is required for lighting, and moreover, local processing capability will allow the light to even know who that person is and in fact also be used as a security camera.
The world is moving in this direction. At the last CES, many companies, including Intel, IBM, and others, presented driverless vehicles that know how to navigate and bypass obstacles with the help of image processing, and of course, image processing systems for vehicles, at this stage to help the driver, for example, with emergency braking, and later - will serve as the basis for autonomous driving.
In order to implement these features, the use of signal processing within the device is required that can recognize voice commands (voice processing), the identification of the photographed (motion processing). A signal processor is much more efficient in performing these applications, has computational capacity and is also economical in energy consumption. For devices such as a smart watch that runs on a very small battery and even more minimalistic devices, the level of energy consumption and processing capacity are critical.
More sophisticated applications will make it possible to turn any microphone into a sensor that knows where it is - when walking, driving, in the cinema (including the one found on the cell phone). Security systems will be able to identify patterns of glass breaking or a baby crying and alert without sending the data to be analyzed in the cloud. The connection and the very transfer of the data are large energy consumers.
In a demonstration at the company's booth, Siva will present a smart watch based on the company's DSP, which includes five features on one processor: processing voice commands, facial recognition, music player, Bluetooth communication and the ability to fuse sensors. Among other things, you can activate the watch with voice commands, and listen to music transmitted via Bluetooth to speakers or headphones, but the feature is perhaps the most interesting - a watch that only turns on when it detects a face, to save battery time, in other words, the watch waits to be looked at and only then does its screen turn on .
In January, the Siva company announced that a consortium of companies led by it won a grant from the European Union's Horizon 2020 R&D program. The grant was given for the FANCI (Face and body Analysis Natural Computer Interaction) project, which combines human-machine interface applications on one technological platform designed for a wide range of products.
The project, which is coordinated by Siva, combines advanced technologies for recognizing faces, facial expressions, reading moods, eye movements and body movements - on a single technological infrastructure. In the first stage, this technology is intended mainly for vehicles, and will allow the driver's behavior to be understood based on facial expressions, eye movements or body movements.
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Some time ago I had this idea and I even put it in a scene of a horror movie.
Imagine a room with a clock hanging on the wall that works on the same principle as described. A modern clock that flashes a red LED when you look at it and turns off when you don't. In the house where a single person is found, there is a room with a bed where he sleeps. For a moment he wakes up and turns to look at the clock, the clock turns on and shows the time. He then turns around with his back to the clock and the clock goes off. Suddenly the clock turns on and shows the time.