Arrow Electronics, Infineon Technologies partner on radar technologies

To accelerate knowhow for deploying radar sensing, Arrow Electronics and Infineon Technologies will set up a radar technology application lab. The joint lab will be colocated with Arrow's Open Lab at the Hong Kong Science Park, and will serve as a competency centre for Arrow's technical engineers to work closely with Infineon's product experts to advance proof of concept and application design of radar technologies.

Source: Arrow. Wong (left) and Poon (right).

Arrow also announced that it will offer an integrated intelligent motion-sensing module featuring the market's smallest 24GHz industrial radar chipset from semiconductor company Infineon. The small form factor and ultra-low-power radar module provides precise motion detection data which can be translated into optimised functionalities and features of next-generation smart and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.


Providing mission-critical information of an object including speed, velocity, range, distance, angle, direction to target, and position, Infineon radar sensing systems yield a higher level of reliability and are less prone to environmental interference for a wide range of applications including gesture-sensing augmented reality, drones with soft landing and collision avoidance, and home automation.

"Infineon continues to set industry standards in radar technology and quality. Combining sophisticated algorithms with highly integrated and miniaturised radar chips creates revolutionary motion- and gesture-sensing capabilities that can take augmented reality and IoT to the next level, said David Poon, MD, Infineon Technologies Hong Kong. "With Arrow's extensive IoT capabilities and engineering expertise, we are now able to make it easier for the developer community to leverage radar technology to create more intelligent and intuitive devices with improved human-to-machine interface for a wide variety of applications."

"We are pleased to add Infineon's industry leading radar chip products to our host of intelligent systems and IoT portfolio," said Esmond Wong, VP, Supplier Marketing, Semiconductor for Arrow's components business in the Asia-Pacific region. "Arrow's full IoT product-lifecycle capabilities draw on our core strengths in sensor and component distribution, enterprise computing and system integration. This positions Arrow to help designers and innovators to face ever-increasing complexity and challenges around wireless connectivity, system integration, data management and aggregation, and monetisation opportunities in the digital economy."

Sensor technology has emerged to be a key building block of IoT. Lux Research predicts that there will be 1 trillion sensors by 2020.