In its efforts to promote UWB as the standard for fine-ranging and high-precision sensing, NXP, has expanded its UWB offering from mobile and automotive ICs, to chips to enable IoT use cases such as smart locks and real-time location system (RTLS) tags delivering “relative position”.

The new UWB ICs are  dubbed Trimension SR040 and SR150. ICs ar. NXP Trimension is the new designated brand name for NXP’s UWB platform.

UWB is enabling a world where doors lock and unlock in response to the owner’s actual presence, where cars are shared with a rd handsfree, where smart home automation systems follow their owners intuitively and efficiently from one room to another, and people spend less time searching because misplaced items can be tracked in an instant.

Designed with the specific needs of IoT devices in mind, Trimension SR150 adds angle-of-arrival (AoA) technology for an added level of precision. Trimension SR150 is ideally suited for the UWB enablement of all kinds of larger infrastructures, such as access control installations, indoor localization setups, and payment schemes, as well as consumer electronics. Several SR150 IC devices can be placed in a room as UWB anchors to help localize people and objects as they move.

Optimized for low-power operation, Trimension SR040 is designed for use in battery-operated IoT devices, including UWB trackers and tags, and can be integrated with Bluetooth Low Energy or other connectivity controllers in one device. Trimension OL23D0 complements the range of dedicated IoT solutions as an open, fully customer programmable UWB controller for IoT applications.

Module Partners and The Path to Production: addressing specific use cases, Trimension SR150 and SR040 ICs are available in modules and development kits supplied by selected NXP partners.