Health and Lifestyle Wearables

Infineon’s one-stop offering covers all sense, compute, wireless connectivity, and embedded security building blocks required to meet the demands of today’s mobile devices. Discover a high benchmark in quality and technology leadership, packed into the smallest, most innovative footprints designed for ease of integration. Infineon’s XENSIV™ sensors offer unprecedented levels of accuracy in motion sensing and tracking. The PSoC® microcontrollers deliver exceptional performance with longer-lasting batteries. And Infineon's SECORA™ Connect solutions bring secure NFC capabilities to wearables. Looking towards higher data rates and greater power efficiency, the broad frontend portfolio of RF switches and 4G/5G LNAs have the answers. Combining the highest location tracking accuracy with the lowest power consumption for longer-lasting batteries, Infineon's GPS LNAs are a winning proposition. For cellular-connected wearables, Infineon antenna centric solutions (IASC) will raise signal quality and extend coverage. In short, Infineon has everything needed from wireless charging and ESD protection through Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® combos to eSIM, NFC security, and authentication solutions.

As the smartphone market approaches saturation point, the personal mobile device trend is gathering momentum. Wearable mobile devices come in different sizes and shapes, covering everything from smart and sports watches to fitness trackers and healthcare wristbands. These wearables may be small and unobtrusive but their increasingly rich functionality, coupled with the fact that they process vast and growing streams of personal, health-related, and other data mean expectations around performance, connectivity, security, and energy efficiency are rising. Particularly as application integration grows to include functions such as payment, ticketing, access, and wireless charging, the need for robust security is becoming more and more important.

Looking beyond security, seamless connectivity, and longer battery lifetimes, other key success factors in the design of wearable mobile devices include small form factors, ease of integration, and sensor accuracy. This is particularly important for precise tracking and to differentiate between normal movements and a fall when wristbands or watches are worn by elderly people for health monitoring, for instance.