Novelda AS is a semiconductor company in Norway that has been invited by Norwegian government and Innovation Norway to exhibit its impulse radar technology at EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, China. The technology has a wide variety of applications and is being currently used and evaluated by companies around the world, according to the company’s Chief Marketing Officer.
Impulse radar is used to sense proximate objects and measure distances to them. It can, for example, be used to avoid collision with other vehicles during parking, detect intruders into homes by sensing motion and locate living persons in disaster sites by sensing breathing and heartbeat.
The nanotechnology based impulse radars can provide innovative sensor applications not possible with conventional ones. The company mentions possible applications in “human vital sign monitoring, personal security, environmental monitoring, industrial automation and other novel sensor applications.”
The Novelda Impulse Radar is a transceiver integrated into a single chip. The new technology requires no clock, thus saving on power and enhancing speed. As the sensing is done using radio waves, no lenses are required compared to technologies that require free visibility, thus saving on costs. The single chips can also be embedded into small mobile devices.
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