Η Xiaomi made us a demonstration today through a video, on its new technology which the company calls Ultra Wide Band (UWB).
Όas the name implies, is essentially a communication of devices through an extremely wide frequency band with bandwidth at 500MHz, used for data transmission.
The company installed the UWB chips on the smartphone My 10 along with a series of antennas. The company has also used its own algorithms to achieve accurate position detection at the centimeter level, and with accurate measurement at ± 3 °.
Xiaomi mentions in the video above, that this technology Ultra Wide Band (UWB) will be able to provide spatial perception capabilities on smartphones and other smart devices, and will function similarly as a Indoor GPS.
With this technology, the user will be able to simply point the smartphone at any device or a control card, and it will automatically appear on the Smartphone screen, while giving access to controlling its operation.
Ο Zeng Xuezhong, Vice President of Xiaomi and President of the company for our Smartphone division presented today for the first time this new technology. In the video, it seems to be turning My 10 and aim at a fan first, and the Smartphone screen automatically appears on the Smartphone screen, along with the control options.
It then switches to a Smart TV, and the Smartphone displays the control buttons for the TV, completely bypassing one's use. Remote Control device.
This new UWB technology should support all products Smart Home released by the company. Xiaomi also states that in the near future, it will completely eliminate the need to turn the smartphone to the device to control it.
There is currently no information on when the company intends to develop and integrate this technology into its smartphones.