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Mobile devices carry a variety of sensors and can provide intelligent information based on the device's location, they are a gateway to interacting with the world around us.

From simple applications such as a mobile check-in to notify friends of your location, to more complex applications such as navigating a large shopping center and instantaneously receiving information about each store you come across on your smartphone, mobile devices have the power to provide us with a new and intelligent user experience that will complement our daily activities.

This enhanced user experience, known as Augmented Reality, will continue to be driven by the growth of smart sensor information, big data, social media, sensor fusion and geo-location information. By combining all of this sensor data for use in compelling mobile applications, mobile devices can enable the next generation of mobile to human interface.

Imagine knowing exactly where you are in a parking lot when you return from shopping, exactly where your friends are located in a crowded concert or receiving an alert when your friend has arrived at the restaurant to meet you. These common real-world situations can be easily resolved with an augmented reality interface.

Kionix's MEMS accelerometers and 6-axis combo sensors provide real-time sensor data and enable the context awareness that drives these next generation mobile augmented reality systems. This context awareness is the bridge that connects your digital world and reality, supplementing your surroundings with real-time information to provide you with a superior mobile experience.

A single Kionix tri-axis accelerometer can be used to enable both screen-rotation and device-orientation functions in a handheld electronic device. We offer a number of accelerometers with built in screen orientation algorithms that can be used for screen rotation and device orientation, along with embedded algorithms to achieve a successful implementation.

These phrases refer to technology that attempts to avoid or reduce mechanical damage to hard-disk drives prior to impact. This approach is mainly used in laptop computers that are frequently carried around and more prone to impacts than desktop computers. When a tri-axis accelerometer is dropped in any orientation, it is in free-fall and the measured acceleration on all three axes is 0g. Therefore, the total acceleration is zero as well. Total acceleration can be monitored to sense that the accelerometer has been dropped and to measure its free-fall time. Kionix accelerometers are the preferred choice for drop detection due to the range of options we provide, as well as our time-tested free-fall algorithms.

Gesture Designer is a software engine that, when embedded into device hardware, allows individuals to capture and manage unique signatures for any number of user-generated gestures for motion-enabled functionality in consumer electronics.  Gesture Designer is a library of code from which user-specific, gesture-based commands can be created and managed.  A gesture-based command is a recording of the data that results from the movement of an accelerometer during a gesture event.  Once authenticated by the onboard recognition engine and subsequently stored, this unique command can be used to execute an operation.