Future Clothing Will Be Embedded In Accelerometer Sensor.

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The small weave of the net tells you that the future clothing will be embedded in the accelerometer sensor and the walking bracelet will go away.

A company called mCube has developed a new accelerometer sensor, which is small enough and cheap enough to be applied.

And sports equipment.

Smart phones and fitness trackers are usually integrated with accelerometer sensors to perceive the movement of users.

The new accelerometer sensor has a size of 1 millimeters, less than half of the traditional accelerometer sensor.

The new accelerometer sensor has higher accuracy, lower energy consumption and lower production cost, mCube said.

MCube CEO Ben Lee said, "new accelerometer sensors can be embedded in clothes. Because of their small size, users can not even feel their presence.

Users can insert the new accelerometer sensor into golf suit, and after finishing a stroke, you can immediately see the detailed analysis of the ball action on the smart phone.

Generally speaking, accelerometers usually consist of two chips: a mechanical device is responsible for detecting motion, and another chip perceiving the output signal of the previous chip.

By integrating these two chips into one chip, mCube not only reduces the size of the accelerometer sensor, but also improves the signal quality.

MCube said that the sensitivity of the accelerometer sensor is quite high enough to replace gyroscopes in smart phones.

This may make the cheapest smart phone have fine motion perception function.

Some low-end smartphones are not equipped with gyroscopes.

MCube has delivered nearly 70 million smart phone sensors to Chinese customers.

MCube recently raised $37 million (about 228 million yuan) to the Vc firm, preparing to expand its production scale and enter other markets.

Mike Rosa, Applied Materials project manager of semiconductor equipment and service provider, said that its customers are also interested in highly integrated single chip accelerometer sensors. Mike Rosa

Rosa said that Applied Materials is developing technologies that can be used to produce such chips, including silicon and germanium.

To achieve the long-term goal of mCube, it is necessary to insert accelerometer sensors into clothing.

To provide them with power and communication functions.

Several pilot energy harvesting or wireless charging technologies will eventually enable mCube's long-term goals to be achieved.