Radio-wave ranging sensor

Precision to realize smarter world

We are on the brink of entering a world of home automation, where the various appliances in a home are equipped with IoT functionality and a range of sensors and are connected to a network, allowing them to interoperate. This new age has brought products providing services identifying, analyzing and anticipating human behavior. For example, there are devices that notice when a person approaches closer than a certain distance to a house, and start up a camera and notify the family by email.

To achieve digital transformation (DX), blending this real world with the digital world, we have developed a highprecision, miniature distance sensor using electromagnetic waves, with low energy consumption and a high costperformance ratio. Its location detection feature, which is easy to use but has high sensing performance, dramatically broadens the possibilities of smart home IoT devices, and so contributes to creating a smart society.

  • Product Overview
  • Applications
  • Product Line-up
  • Introduction Video

Product Overview

Overview

Socionextʻs radio-wave ranging sensor provides value to customers with the worldʼs top level full CMOS-based semiconductor design technology, single LSI, and package.

Radio-wave ranging sensor Product Brief

Features

As each product has a built-in distance measurement circuit, you can use it without any knowledge of signal processing.

A wide range of sensing types are available, including intermittent sensing and burst sensing.

We offer a lineup of products with multiple reception channels that enable detection of positional information.

Applications

Product Line-up

Frequency 24GHz 60GHz
Product SC1232
Learn More
 SC1233
Learn More
 SC1221
Learn More
 SC1220
Learn More
 SC1240
Learn More
Package/
Antenna Configuration“Image not scaled”		 SC1232 SC1233 SC1221 SC1220 SC1240
Bandwidth up to 180MHz up to 180MHz up to 6.8GHz up to 6.8GHz up to 6.8GHz
Detectable Dimension 1D 2D 2D 3D 3D
Interface SPI, I2C SPI, I2C SPI SPI SPI, I2C
Average Power consumption Average: 0.5mW*1 Average: 0.6mW*2 Average: 1mW*3*5 Average: 2.5mW*4 Average: 0.7mW*6
Size 9.0mm x 9.0mm 9.0mm x 9.0mm 9.0mm x 9.0mm 7.0mm x 7.0mm 4.0mm x 7.0mm
Integrated
signal processing		 Distance detection
Motion detection
Digital beam shaper		 Distance detection
Motion detection
Angle calc. Info.		 FFT FFT Angle/Distance
detection
3D Motion detection
Integration Antenna, RF, ADC,
Digital F/E & SP, I/O		 Antenna, RF, ADC,
Digital F/E & SP, I/O		 Antenna, RF, ADC,
Digital F/E, I/O		 Antenna, RF, ADC,
Digital F/E, I/O		 Antenna, RF, ADC,
Digital F/E & SP, I/O,
ROM for self-boot
[Notes]

*1: 0.1% duty cycle in Motion Detection mode

*2: 0.1% duty cycle in 2D Detection mode

*3: 0.2% duty cycle

*4: 0.5% duty cycle

*5: 2-Tx simultaneously

*6: 0.1% duty cycle in 2D Detection mode

Introduction Video

Overview

Introducing overview of the Radio-wave ranging sensor.

Overview

Detection Demonstration

Introducing a 2D detection demonstration of the Radio-wave ranging sensor.

Detection Demonstration

Radio-wave ranging Sensor vs PIR Sensor

Introducing a comparison between a Radio-wave ranging Sensor and PIR Sensor.

Radio-wave ranging Sensor vs PIR Sensor