Texas Instruments is hosting a webinar today on motion sensing technology – on how to accurately detect objects and how to select the correct motion detector technology.

Industry experts will highlight the three most common motion and occupancy detecting systems: PIR, mmWave and Time of Flight.

It takes place today, on Wednesday June 17th, 2020 (14:00 hrs BST, London)

Accurately detecting objects, such as human, pets, and other items has become increasingly important in different applications ranging from building security to industrial robot sensing modules. Due to the diversity of applications, it can be challenging to select the correct motion detector technology based on design cost, size, range and performance requirements.

In this session, we will compare different motion detecting systems technologies. We will discuss their advantages and disadvantages, technical features and effects of environmental conditions. We will also present examples to illustrate how different technologies can help solve specific design challenges. Lastly, we will highlight the three most common motion and occupancy detecting systems: PIR, mmWave and Time of Flight.

Taking place on Wednesday June 17th, 2020, the timing references are as follows:

• 14:00 hrs BST (London)
• 15:00 hrs CEST (Berlin)
• 8:00 hrs CDT (Dallas)
• 18:30 hrs IST (Bangalore)

The webinar will include a 45 minute presentation and 15 minutes for Q&A. It will be moderated by Clive Couldwell, group-editor of Electronics Weekly and AV Magazine.

Webinar Speakers

Miro Oljaca, Senior Systems Engineer

Miro is a known analog guru for Industrial Equipment and Motor Control / Motion Control – resulting from 35 years of experience in both industry system design and semiconductors. He gained worldwide recognition from his written contributions for IEEE, EDN, EETimes, and AAJ and has over 60+ publications that have been translated and republished in multiple languages across the globe encompassing a wide valuable technical scope. He has multiple patents for achieving both system level technology advancements as well as semiconductor design techniques. His expertise is on system design and specializes in component selection, design, and system architecture for interfacing and processing signals from current, voltage, and velocity sensors to achieve maximum signal resolution.

Anthony Berthet, Field application Engineer

Anthony has more than 20 years’ experience with TI’s Semiconductor Group. He started his career as application support engineer developing a strong expertise in Processor/DSP systems and multiple types of interfaces. Now as field application engineer he is supporting a wide range of industrial application such as building automation and grid infrastructure. He enjoys making use of his problem solving skills and helping customers in troubleshooting source of a problem and find effective solution.

Reference designs

The webinar will cover the following reference designs:

PIR – TIDA-010027 (PIR) Low noise PIR signal chain reference design with less false alarm for line powered motion detector

mmWave – TIDEP-01000 (mmWave): People Counting and Tracking Reference Design Using mmWave Radar Sensor

ToF – TIDA-010021: Wide-range (120° FoV at 1.6 meters) proximity sensing reference design with immunity to sunlight