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Bluetooth technology | traditional watch brands to join the smartwatch competition, and the smart watch market continues to be hot

Tag Heuer released the Connected Calibre E4 on Tuesday. The watch is available in two sizes, and for the first time, a 42mm version is available in addition to the 45mm version of the previous series.

Bluetooth technology | traditional watch brands to join the smartwatch competition, and the smart watch market continues to be hot

TAG Heuer Connected Calibre E4 features the Snapdragon Wear 4100 platform and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity. The 45mm version has a 30% longer battery life than the previous generation, and the 42mm version can also maintain electricity for a whole day. The Connected Calibre E4 is equipped with a new design charger that allows the watch to be positioned vertically and display time while charging.

The Connected Calibre E4 also has built-in sensors such as GPS, heart rate monitoring, altimeter, etc., which can be used to record the user's exercise data. The Connected Calibre E4 will go on sale on March 10 and will be priced at $1,800 to $2,550.

From 2017 to 2020, the scale of China's adult smart watch market showed an upward trend year by year. With the gradual popularization of adult smart watches in China, combined with IDC's 2017-2018 market size data, after preliminary estimates, the size of China's adult smart watch market will reach 12.8 billion yuan in 2020.

Bluetooth technology | traditional watch brands to join the smartwatch competition, and the smart watch market continues to be hot

At present, the characteristics of Chinese adult smart watch products are mainly concentrated in bluetooth synchronization mobile phone calls, send and receive text messages, monitor sleep, monitor heart rate, sedentary reminders, running steps, remote photography, music playback, video recording, compass and other functions. Designed for the modern urbanite. However, most categories of smart watches still need to rely on mobile phones to achieve functions, at present, only smart watches launched by Apple and Xiaomi on the market can exist independently of mobile phones.

Bluetooth technology | traditional watch brands to join the smartwatch competition, and the smart watch market continues to be hot

Smart watches as wearable devices, smart phone notifications, exercise monitoring, fitness monitoring and other functions are one aspect of its development, on the other hand, more important is the application of scenarios. Although smart watches are still in the early stages of development, there is no doubt about the development direction of smart watches. On the one hand, it is necessary to meet the segmentation needs of consumers, on the other hand, in different scenarios, smart watches will play different roles.

Bluetooth is a personal lancing technology designed and marketed by the Bluetooth Technology Alliance for emerging applications in healthcare, sports and fitness, beacons, security, home entertainment, and more. Compared with classic Bluetooth, Bluetooth low energy technology is designed to maintain the same communication range while significantly reducing power consumption and cost, due to the relationship between low power consumption, so it is often used in a variety of common wearable devices and Internet of Things devices, the use of coin cell batteries can be executed for months to years, small size, low cost, and compatible with most of the existing mobile phones, tablets and computers.

Bluetooth technology | traditional watch brands to join the smartwatch competition, and the smart watch market continues to be hot

Application of Bluetooth on smart watches

1. Application notifications

The application notification function in the development of the Bluetooth smart watch APP refers to the fact that the watch can remind calls, text messages and three-party application notifications. Prevent users from missing any important piece of information.

2. Exercise data and heart rate data

Motion data and heart rate data functions are features that every Bluetooth smart watch comes with. Users can record the number of steps walked, distance, heart rate, calorie burn and other information through this. After this information is recorded, it can be fed back to the phone via Bluetooth. Help users better understand their physical condition.

3. Weather management

Bluetooth smart watches can provide a change of weather function. Moreover, it will automatically locate the city and do a good job of early warning weather reminders.

4. Watch alarm clock

The watch alarm clock function means that when the user uses the smart watch, he can set multiple sets of alarm clocks on the APP, and when it comes to a specific time, the watch will vibrate. Users can turn off the alarm by simply touching the video with their hand.

5. Bluetooth positioning

Bluetooth real-time positioning. In addition, there is a one-key alarm function, which can play a guarantee role for users, especially minors.

Lenz Technology has independent research and development of radio frequency and Bluetooth low energy BLE5.2 chip and has global intellectual property rights, for the AIoT Internet of Things field and individual consumers, to provide Bluetooth master control fully integrated chip "hardware and software commonality" solution and core devices, supporting a full range of APP software platform custom development. The designed Bluetooth chip solution is applied to smart wearable devices, Bluetooth indoor navigation, smart home, medical health, sports construction, data transmission, remote control, personal peripherals and AIoT Internet of Things and other scenarios.

The latest Bluetooth chip ST17H66 (SOP16) equipped with a high-performance and low-power 32-bit processor supports BluetoothLE and SIG MESH multifunctional Bluetooth 5.2.

Key parameters:

256 KB of system flash memory

64KB SRAM, all data is maintained constantly in sleep mode

2.4 GHz transceiver

Bluetooth Low Energy

Bluetooth Mesh

-20dBm to +10dBm transmit power

Receive current: 8mA

Transmit current: 8.6mA

0.3uA@sleep(IO wake up only)

AoA/AoD azimuth determination

AES-128 hardware encryption

PDM/I2C/SPI/UART/PWM/DMA

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