Infineon Technologies Smart Building Solutions

Infineon provides semiconductor solutions for the backbone of current and future smart buildings, empowering use-cases across a variety of applications. Infineon's products enable buildings to sense, compute, and actuate in a secured environment. The broad power and sensor portfolio addresses a wide range of use-cases.

Today, fitting a commercial building with an indoor lighting control system benefits building owners and occupants along with facility management companies. For instance, thanks to intelligent indoor lighting control, light levels can be individually adapted. A lighting control system can help save energy by automatically switching off the lights when no one is present. A smart lighting system also recognizes when a lamp is about to fail and sends a notification, eliminating the need for lamp checks, which reduces manpower and costs.

Infineon's portfolio of high-quality components features a range of products:

• High voltage and medium voltage MOSFETs for dimmers
• Radar sensors and solutions for a range of smart features
• Security ICs for secure data transfer
• Evaluation kits for reduced development time
• Reference designs for subsystems

Noise reduction, system efficiency, and reliability all matter in HVAC ventilation designs. As the smart home or business goes from concept to reality, ventilation systems must be ready to integrate into an overall home/business automation system. They require security features to prevent attacks. Designs should also be cost-effective to achieve long-term success.

Infineon offers a one-stop-shop for sensors, microcontrollers, and power ICs that support automatic ventilation system designs. These products are designed for efficient, robust power management, and motor control. Using Infineon components for HVAC ventilation applications enables peace of mind and easy-to-integrate turnkey solutions.

Users can benefit from the wide, scalable portfolio with products for nearly every voltage or power. Integrated protection and diagnostics features are offered as well. Designs are ensured when equipped with security features using the OPTIGA™ Trust product family.

Keeping family members, property, and belongings safe is a priority for most people. Surveillance systems are increasingly part of overall smart home or business concepts. In today's era of connectivity, most surveillance systems are linked to the internet or are part of a smart solution.

The right components are essential to engineering a surveillance system that covers all market needs. Infineon offers a wide-ranging portfolio of cutting-edge radar technology products and solutions. The 24GHz radar solution features a small package and can be used to upgrade a solution from basic motion detection to smart sensing surveillance. The BGT24M/L family offers a highly integrated 24GHz ISM band radar transceiver that provides a range of transmitter and receiver channel configurations. Infineon also offers components for power management, magnetic sensors, embedded security, and microcontrollers. The lineup also includes evaluation and demo boards to support the testing and development of radar in multiple applications.

Pairing the Infineon radar offering with other sensor technologies enables the user to design solutions with multiple sensor capabilities. For instance, by combining radar with camera technology in a solution that monitors a home's front door, users can program the camera to only operate when someone enters a pre-defined range of the door. This protects the privacy of people outside the detection range. A second example is when a camera's detection capabilities are limited, radar can jump in to provide distance and angle information, which can be fused into the camera's image data to determine more precise 3D positioning.

It's important to note that designs combining radar with other technologies can save energy because they utilize radar's comparatively low operating costs.

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