Wearable Electronics
We can help you with your product vision to pursue and design a product in this fast paced wearable industry. Ascenten understands the functional, technological and business needs which arise during design and development of any wearable devices, needs such as – fixed form factor, extended battery life, rugged & ergonomic design and time to market.
Having been involved in the green-field design of various wearable concepts, Ascenten’s experience and expertise have the right combination of hardware, firmware, and software teams who envision and help realize a complete wearable product in its most important areas with the best design solutions and quality.
Wearable Designing Solutions:
- Health & fitness – Fitness bands, Foot pods
- Consumer electronics - Smart watch including mechanical hybrid , Smart bands
- Industrial & others - Smart terminals
- Fashion electronics – Smart belt, Bags, Clothing
Wearable Designing Services:
- Feasibility study & PoC (Proof of Concept)
- Industrial design (ID)/User experience (UX)
- Design, development and integration
- Prototype and pilot batch production
- Mass manufacturing support
- Product enhancement and maintenance
Technology Expertise:
Ascenten’s product engineering team constantly researches and evaluates recent technology and platforms by continuously training with the development kits so that an optimal solution is usually at hand when custom designing a wearable.
Hardware:
- Processors: ARM cortex -M4
- Sensors: Heart rate, Pulse oximeter, GSR, Temperature, Humidity, Pressure, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass
- Wireless Connectivity: Bluetooth – Classic & BLE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS
- Display: Transparent AMOLED and PMOLED
- Touchscreen: Capacitive type
- Battery: Rechargeable LiPo
- PCB design: 6-layer flex or rigid flex with microvia technology in an extremely small form factor with space for large bending radius
- Compliance: CE, FCC, UL
Firmware:
- Board support package (BSP) and device drivers
- Sensor and third-party module integrations
- Heart rate and GSR algorithm design
- Fitness algorithm integration
- Intuitive GUI design and integration
- Firmware upgrades over Bluetooth
- Fail-safe firmware support
- Various Bluetooth GATT services integration
- ANCS service integration
- RTOS porting
- Bluetooth stacks integration
Software/Mobile Application:
- iOS and Android application design and development
- Bluetooth connectivity between iOS / Android phones to devices using a third-party protocol stack
- Remote firmware upgrade through mobile applications
Featured Case Study:
- Mechanical hybrid smart watch
- Smart bands