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imec Designs Sub-mW Radar for Presence Detection in Smart Buildings

The imec chip was designed in standard 40nm CMOS and has a die size of 1.8mm2.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

imec announced an exceptional radar transceiver designed as an efficient, low-cost solution for presence detection in smart building solutions.   The power consumption of the radar is below 1mW, which is 100 times lower than other solutions and is capable of detecting even micro-movements from human respiration, up to a distance of 15 meters. This performance makes it a breakthrough solution for low-cost battery-powered presence-detection and people counting applications in offices, hospitals an...

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