TI Workshop: Developing IIoT and Smart City Solutions with mmWave Sensors

Hosted by
Texas Instruments

Date and time
Thu 27 June 2019
6:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Venue
Cocoon Global
4 Christopher St, London EC2A 2BS

Limited to
30 participants

How to participate
You must apply to participate. If you are selected you will receive an email confirmation after the 03 June 2019. This will include the link to book your free ticket (a non-refundable booking fee of £15 will be charged to limit drop-outs).

Drinks and pizza will be served throughout the night.

Bonus for participants

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- [Bonus 2 description].

Hardware Pioneers has teamed up with Texas Instruments once again, this time to help our technical community to get familiar with Industrial mmWave sensors used to develop solutions for traffic monitoring, building automation, robotics, industrial transport and more. During this exceptional workshop you will learn how to detect high accuracy range, velocity, and angle information using TI’s mmWave sensors and run demos about gesture recognition, vital signs monitoring and people counting.

TI’s mmWave sensors enable a smarter world through intelligent sensing at the edge. By integrating high accuracy sensing with intelligent processing in a single chip, mmWave sensors solve problems in a wide range of industrial applications.

What is mmWave

mmWave is an extremely valuable sensing technology for detection of objects and providing the range, velocity and angle of these objects. It is a contactless-technology which operates in the spectrum between 30GHz and 300GHz.
Due to the technology’s use of small wavelengths it can provide sub-mm range accuracy and is able to penetrate certain materials such as plastic, drywall, clothing, and is impervious to environmental conditions such as rain, fog, dust and snow.

TI mmWave sensor technology

Agenda

6:00 pm
Arrival and registration - Pizza and drinks will be served.

6:20 pm
Event opening.

6:30 pm
Introduction to the FMCW radar:
- Principle of operation.
- Capabilities as a sensor: performance, insensitivity to the environment.
- Regulations overview.

7:00 pm
Out-of-box firmware and utilities:
- Capabilities, sensor configuration, user interface, data format.

7:15 pm
Hands-on: Experimenting with the out-of-box firmware.

8:00 pm
Inside TI's radar devices:
- Portfolio overview; devices and systems block diagrams.
- Internal data flow: example of the out-of-box firmware.
- Advanced algorithms: example of the people counting firmware.

8:30 pm
Hands-on: High accuracy distance measurement (demos will be running in parallel):
- People counting.
- Vital signs monitoring.
- Gesture recognition.

8.00pm
Community announcements and demos: This is your time. If you would like to share what you are working on with the community or make any sort of announcement. You have 2 minutes max for a short shoutout.

9:00 pm
Networking and drinks.

9:30 pm
Event ends.

Requirements

Equipment

- Your own laptop (support macOS, Windows and Linux).
- Knowledge of C programming language.

downloads

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About the instructors

Texas Instruments
Roger Monk
Wireless Connectivity Systems Applications Engineer

Texas Instruments
Greg Peake
Wireless Connectivity and mmWave Application Engineer

Roger Monk, Wireless Connectivity Systems Applications Engineer at Texas Instruments
Roger joined TI in 1998 and has worked in various technical roles supporting TI Embedded Processing and Analog solutions. Most recently Roger has been focussing on TI’s SimpleLink™ Microcontroller platform and building solutions for wireless connectivity solutions for Internet-of-Things applications.

Greg Peake, Wireless Connectivity and mmWave Application Engineer at Texas Instruments
Greg Peake is an Applications Engineer and Senior Member of Technical Staff at TI. Originally starting as a DSP engineer at TI he has had the opportunity to design with and program many of TI's embedded platforms - from DSP to MPU as well as the integration of both. Covering WIFI, Bluetooth, and starting with Sub1G technologies in the industrial space – focussing on robustness, wireless network adapters, and getting customers to production.

About the platform and hosting company

Traffic monitoring using IWR mmWave sensors
Watch this demonstration of how TI mmWave sensors can be used with a camera to detect the position and motion of vehicles in traffic monitoring applications.

Robotics sense and avoid using TI mmWave sensors
See how TI's IWR mmWave sensors are enabling a smarter world by sensing and avoiding objects in robotics navigation applications.

About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated(TI) is a global semiconductor design and manufacturing company that develops analog ICs and embedded processors. By employing the world's brightest minds, TI creates innovations that shape the future of technology. TI is helping approximately 100,000 customers transform the future, today.