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Movea: Data Fusion Technology Provider
From Sensor Fusion to Data Fusion: Enabling the dream of context aware mobile devices Tim Kelliher – Customer Solutions ArchitectSensorsCon 2013, March 6, Santa Clara, CA
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Company Profile
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• Created in 2007 in Grenoble, France • Spin-off of CEA-Léti
• 20 years of motion sensing & consumer electronics industry experience
• Focus on IP & technology • Over 350 man-years invested in R&D • 450+ patents • Joint MotionLab with CEA-Léti
• 60+ employees today and growing
• Global leader in Data Fusion and motion-sensing IP for:
• Mobile/Tablet • Interactive TV • Sports & eHealth
Grenoble, France
Pleasanton, CA
Movea customers and partners
Interactive TV
Sports and Wellness
Mobile
Definitions
• Sensor Fusion – Combining information from different sensor
types (i.e. Accel, Gyro, Mag, Pressure)
• Data Fusion – Combing sensor fusion with data from other
sources (Calendar, Social Media, Weather, Traffic ….. other public or private data)
Sensor Fusion is Great…
• Overcomes the short coming of the individual sensors
• Provides accurate 3D Orientation • 3D Orientation is a fundamental feature on
top of which several other features are built • Market driver for combo-MEMS devices
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Limitations of Sensor Fusion • It’s limited: 3D (AGM ) Orientation
• Only leverages 3 sensors
• Many competitive solutions on the market are not robust
• Many competitive solutions are tied to specific hardware
• Continued market growth will increasingly depend on features that require additional sensors and varying types of data on the device and in the cloud
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What the Consumer Market Needs
Awareness/Intelligence : – Understand your context. Anticipate your needs.
Deliver the right information, at the right time, in the right way
Ubiquity : – Access to your services anytime anywhere – Seamless use the best platform based on your context
(Smartphone, Tablet, STB/TV)
Simplicity : – Enable natural user interfaces – Ease of use
Efficiency: – Ultimate performance based on context – Optimize performance / cost
• Power level, sensor availability, computing power…
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Dev
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s S
tate
• On table • Docking
station • In hand • By Ear • In Back
Pack • In Pocket • In a purse • In a holster • In
shoulder bag
Use
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Act
ivit
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• Standing • Lying (on
back & face down)
• Sitting • Walking • Running • Biking • Dancing • Riding • Strolling • Skating • …
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• In a Car • In a Bus • In a Train • In a Plane • In an
elevator • In / out
door • …
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• Agenda • Contacts • Emails • Pictures…
Clo
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• Weather forecast
• Data base • GPS…
Demands a shift from Sensor fusion to Data fusion
The Promise of Context Awareness…
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Context Awareness & Data Fusion
• Context Awareness is a major market trend in an early stage – Intel, Qualcomm, Freescale, and many others
• Data Fusion is a critical enabling technology for pervasive Context Awareness
• Data Fusion Challenges: – Many sources of data in vastly different formats across heterogeneous
networks
– Solutions that can be tuned to new data types and new use cases
– Different data rates, data synchronization, and data loss
– Effective learning strategies when no a-priori knowledge exists about mappings from data to response
– Data and metadata representation standards
Data Fusion will enable the dream of context aware mobile devices
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Sensors, Data & Computing Everywhere
1. My Body Area Network Data
2. My Personal Area Network Data
4. Internet Public Data
3. My Web & Personal Data in the Cloud
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Sensor & Data Fusion Technologies
Raw Sensors & Data Non Organized
Signal processing and data fusion
Applications
Sensor & Data Flow Data Fusion Applications
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Engines
Infrastructure for embedded and
distributed Data Fusion
Tools
Design tools and developer kits to
enable the ecosystem
Models
Cloud-based data models
and processing models
Movea’s Data Fusion Platform
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DataFusion: From IP to Application
Movea portfolio: 450+ patents
Host PC
Movea Lab : Intuitive drag and drop development framework for application developers
Plugin based architecture allowing custom user extensions
OpenTrack Micro-kernel
Sensors
Application
Generate Code
Target Mobile platform
Interactive TV
Mobile
Sports & Wellness
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Interactive TV Mobile & Tablets Sports & eHealth
Common IP and Platform
MoveaTV™ MotionCore™ MoveFit™
Movea’s Offerings
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MoveaTV • Easy User Interface control through Cursor Control Model, • pre-defined gestures Model + User Intent Anticipation (UIA),
• Gesture Builder – Custom gesture database design
software – Easily create, manage and optimize
gesture databases
• Game enabler through Motion Models
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Pedestrian Navigation
High level data fusion & management
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Local info Sensor based Global info Group info
Collection and analysis of local information to compute global
information
Remote access to manage social networks, see some statistics,…
Local info Database based
Context awereness widgets examples: • Relative position (phone in hand, in bag,…) • Absolution position (ped nav, GPS) • Physical activity • Position dynamics (static, walking, in a bus,…) • Physical conditions around user (noise, light,…)
But also: • User’s habits • User’s friends/social groups • What is around user ? • Etc…
High level data fusion & management: How to develop a generic technology for context aware applications ? How to be part or to create an ecosystem ? Who can be our partners ? Who can be our customers ?
Context awereness « widget »: Abstraction layer to convert raw data to proper information for application
Model or molecule
Activity Monitoring
MOVEA provides general activity tracking models that may be customized for elderly people
Indoor navigation system can be customized for user’s place
Remote access to data Social network management
Cross users data management
System main features: • Track user activities to monitor activity • Submit recommendations based on location and activity • Help user to find friends
High level data fusion & management
User social network Activity
tracking
User position
(w/ navigation system)
Places around him
(help user if lost)
App architecture
CONCLUSION
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Summary
• Data Fusion is a critical enabling technology required to deliver on the promise of Context Awareness
• Beyond Context Awareness, Data Fusion is an enabling technology for many other applications
• Movea’s platform of Models, Engines, and Tools helps our customers and ecosystem partners bring new products to market quickly
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Looking Forward • Large scale sensor systems will be a market
driver for Data Fusion solutions
• Context Aware devices and systems will anticipate our needs, giving us the right information, at the right time, and in the right way
• A new breed of applications leveraging sensor enabled feedback loops will be driving forces for behavioral change helping us make better/healthier decisions.
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