New Product Update

TI's new mmWave radar sensor

for medical and home security
applications

Robert Tolbert
Radar product marketing engineer
Topics to be discussed
• Advantages and functions of mmWave radar

• How the height detection aspects of IWRL6432 are used to determine pose (e.g. laying, sitting etc) and
detect that a person has fallen

• How the fine motion detection aspects of IWRL6432 can be used to enable contactless vital
sign measurements

• How the multi-antenna aspects of IWRL6432 can be effectively used to provide precise location and
tracking of persons in a defined area

• How information provided by the IWRL6432 can be used to reduce the amount of false
detection/triggers in surveillance applications
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Why radar technology | Advantages
Contactless technology:
− Hassle-free sensing and monitoring of occupants in both
indoor and outdoor settings.
− Flexible sensor placement (e.g. inside of equipment, as
mmWave passes through solid material).

Privacy ensured:
− Unlike camera, no intrusion to privacy.
− No fear of information/data theft.

Works in challenging conditions:

− Works in any lighting conditions (i.e. bright, dark).
− Not affected by temperature (i.e. cold, hot).
− Accurate detection (lower false detection compared to
other technology).
Radar | Target applications & functions
Mobile robots
Automated Industrial robots
lighting
Presence detection

Localization
Surveillance Medical
Counting / tracking

Major / minor motion detection

Static object detection

Velocity and direction detection

Automated
doors
Stance / fall detection Occupancy
detection
Heart & breath rate detection

Human vs. non-human classification

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Medical | Sensing problems and challenges

Problems
to solve

Occupancy Fall Detection Vital Signs

Design
challenges

Accuracy/Reliability Privacy Non-Contact

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Medical | Fall detection
Fall detection

• Height and orientation of point cloud

(long & thin vs short & wide) to determine
posture (standing, sitting, laying)

• Velocity / sudden change in height or

orientation to determine a fall event

• IWRL6432 multi-antenna design enables

a more dense point cloud to obtain data

Change in height Non-identifiable

can be used to information, can be
determine if fall has used in sensitive
occurred environments
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Medical | Vital signs detection

Contactless performance on par with leading

smart watches brands

• Uses tracking layer to detect the location of the person then uses
a vital signs processing chain to measure the heart rate and
breath rate
• IWR sensor measures the micro displacements (or very fine
movements) of the chest cavity continuously over time to obtain
heart rate and breath rate
• Can detect and measure multiple people simultaneously. # of
people based on available memory

Accuracy IWR6843 IWRL6432

verified vs HRM (measured) (expected)
Heart rate ±5 bpm ±10 bpm

Breathing rate ±2 bpm ±4 bpm

 Two Solutions for Building Security

Longer Range Surveillance Short Range / Video Doorbell

IWR6843 IWRL6432

* Disclaimer: Images are examples only. TI does not assert that mmWave radar is present in the products shown
 mmWave Sensing | Short Range Surveillance
20+ meter range 3D motion detection

Track 5 people simultaneously SIL 2 capable IWR6843 can ensure Robot

doesn’t restart as long as operator is in the cage
3.75cm precision

120° or more field of view

False detection mitigation
(Trees/Branches, Pets, Rain/Snow, Spiders, Birds, Pets)

Human vs non-human classification

< 1.15mW of power consumption

Get started today! • Development Resources (including demonstrations and software)

– Watch: IWRL6432 in action (radar enhanced video doorbell, presence detection) – Presence and Motion Detection
– Read: IWRL6432 low power radar enables high accuracy sensing – People Tracking
– Read: IWRL6432 enables new functionality in battery powered proximity sensing – Human vs non-human classification
– Evaluate & design: with TI’s radar sensing reference code, labs & experiments and
IWRL6432BOOST EVM • Target devices & EVM
– Communicate: with TI engineers to get support throughout every step of the – IWRL6432 -- 3R2T low power / cost radar sensor w/ HWA (samples now)
design process in TI’s E2E™ design support forum
 Surveillance | Localization

IWRL6432 determines location to within 3.75cm of precision

• Angle of reflection information is used to
determine position

• Minimum of 2 receivers is needed to

determine localization (X,Y)

• Third receiver has added benefits

– Height (Z) - improved location accuracy

– Better angular resolution - distinguish

between objects close together

– Higher SNR – lower power consumption at

the same range or see longer ranges

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Surveillance | False detection mitigation
mmWave radar uses several filtering methods to reduce false detections

Achievable within Arlo power budget

Location filtering uses coordinates to set detection area(s) and filter unwanted data points
Human
Proximity filtering: uses range (distance from sensor) to filter unwanted data points
Height filtering: uses height (distance above or below sensor) to filter data points w/o arm movement
Doppler filtering: removes stationary and low speed reflections
Threshold filtering: uses SNR and # of points to filter signal from noise

Achievable with increased power budget

Dog
Classification: uses the motion signature (micro doppler) to identify and object and filter

Cause of false detection Low power Mod power

People/objects outside of detection area

Tree blowing
Trees / bushes

Animals (pets, squirrels, rabbits etc)

Spider web

Insects (Wasps, Bees, Flies etc) Curtain blowing

IWRL6432 | Evaluation modules
Sample/EVM: Now

• EVM: IWRL6432BOOST

• Complete software development and

evaluation environment

• Low cost FR408HR-based antenna

design

IWRL6432BOOST
Development resources
You can start evaluating this device leveraging the following:
Content type Content title Link to content or more details
Product & Samples Product overview www.ti.com/product/IWRL6432

Training On-demand training, examples, and videos Getting started with xWRL6432
reference code, labs & experiments

Technical white Technical blog for xWRL6432 IWRL6432 low power radar enables high accuracy
papers Application brief sensing
IWRL642 enables new functionality in battery
powered proximity sensing

Development tools Using 60-GHz radar sensors in video doorbells https://www.ti.com/video/6317304690112

Overview of device https://www.ti.com/video/6317517176112
Module demonstration https://www.ti.com/video/6317353331112
Laptop presence and onlooker detection https://www.ti.com/video/6317244314112
Design resources IWRL6432BOOST
Design support forum https://e2e.ti.com/

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