On Semi Wdk 1.0 – A Boon To Oems

By Author: VAISHALI ADVANI
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The wearable market is the one dominated by large players, having immense potential for innovation. Hence, it is soon expected to open doors for smaller OEMs to tap the opportunities by making revolutionary breakthroughs in wearable industry.

After the Smartphone, wearable devices are emerging as potential drivers of next wave of growth in consumer electronics. Sensors and chip sets are smaller and cheaper than ever, making it possible for companies to revolutionize the wearable market and grow leaps and bounds. Currently there is a niche market for wearables catering only to early adopters. But this trend is soon to be broken by smaller OEMs working day and night to improve upon functionality, simplicity, convenience and cost factors to reach out to the masses in consumer electronics sector.

One important aspect to understand about smaller OEMs is, due to engineering and investment constraints, they do not have the luxury to build wearable designs from scratch. For such players, the development solutions bound by intelligence are a kick start to innovate and develop unique and revolutionary wearable designs. One ...
... such development solution is ON Semiconductor’s Wearable Development Kit 1.0.

The new WDK 1.0 brings together a wide range of highly optimized components. This helps the OEMs in introducing differentiated products to the wearable market. Using the kit accelerates design and development cycles for wearable electronics, and helps mitigate the heavy engineering and development costs, reducing the price points for wearables in Indian markets.

The WDK 1.0GEVK wearable reference design and development kit is gold to designers. ON Semiconductor’s extremely flexible and scalable reference design comprise of Hardware, firmware, integrated development environment (IDE) and downloadable SmartApp to support creation of wearables ranging from fitness trackers to complex smart watches.

The kit allows for creating wearable with air fuel compatible wireless charging technology, having additional features like Bluetooth, touch screen display, dock station for charging, temperature sensors, motion sensing, etc. In order to have more information on the hardware features, software support and reference design features, you can log onto SemiKart

All in all, the WDK 1.0 is all set to take OEMs to the next level of innovation and success, creating a whole new market for wearable in consumer electronics sector.