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UWB seems a bad name for something that appears to be used for location a-la IEEE 802.15.4z. The dev boards are still pretty pricey from what I see.
Infineon sales piece.
This is very light on information and very full of praise.
These seem like great examples of features with minuscule benefits on average:

> Imagine:

> Your thermostat adjusting the temperature automatically as you enter the room.

> Your TV resuming your favorite show that you were watching yesterday as you sit on the couch

> Your car door automatically opening when approach the vehicle and adjusting its seat position and temperature based on your preferences

The vast majority of people want a thermostat that maintains a constant temperature everywhere.

Clicking one or two buttons to resume a TV show is minor.

Pulling the handle on a door and pressing a preset seat position button is a minor inconvenience if that.

Add the above to the possibly flawed assumption that folks may not actually want the automatic behavior makes the "value" negative in some cases.

None of this is worth internet connectivity.

The driver pushing this is that internet connectivity enables data collection that can be sold.

>UWB is a premium technology for precise and secured ranging.

Doesn't that depend on how you use it? it's just a frequency band.

I do love the idea of a good medium bandwidth proximity based protocol that has very low latency. 802.15.4z goes 2.4Mb/s but proprietary UWB in the same domain goes up to 64Mb/s which becomes more interesting.

10cm is pretty good positional accuracy too, albeit it feels perhaps short of what we'd need for great pose tracking. To me it's fun to consider what a smart home that can better project it's own digital twin. Also useful data for AR & spatial computing.

For anyone else following Mouser new product feel, I think the arrival of Qorvo'a newest Qorvo QM35825 RF SoC was a very fun arrival to see. https://www.mouser.com/new/qorvo/qorvo-qm35825-uwb-low-power...

I do wish that high bandwidth UWB was doing better. I really like the idea of a wireless dock, being able to plug in USB devices and get good bandwidth and especially low latency. I'm not super keyed in to what's happening in VR headset space but they seem to be the only folks using high speed UWB at all these days. WiGig / 802.11ad I hope we see you again!

This is wandering really far afield from the topic at hand, but should out to FluxPosez which is trying to build short range pose trackers using magnetic sensing. Seems really neat too. https://www.fluxpose.com/