This document summarizes Dorota Shortell's presentation on smart goods technologies. It discusses Simplexity, an engineering company working on smart products. It presents two case studies: the Microsoft Band smartwatch and Bowflex dumbbells that track workout data. For each, it describes the product, technical challenges overcome like size and durability, and needs in further technology like more powerful sensors and position tracking. It concludes that future smart products will need to affect the physical world through integrated manipulators and feedback sensors while addressing challenges like energy efficiency and security.
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Ploughshare offers your organisation the opportunity to
invest in or license world-class technologies, intellectual
property (‘IP’) and scientific knowledge. We make these
unique innovations, originally developed for defence and
security purposes by the Defence Science and Technology
Laboratory (Dstl), available for commercial use and
wider economic and social benefit.
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This was presented as an Engineers Australia UK Chapter Technical Talk in Feb 2018.
The information contained in this document is the proprietary and exclusive property of Atlas Material Testing Technology LLC except as otherwise indicated http://us.sunpower.com
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NSF Workshop on Advanced
Manufacturing for Smart Goods
Smart Good Needs: Small Company
Perspective
Dorota Shortell
May 14, 2015
Pushing the Limits of Smart
Products Design
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Simplexity Overview
• Engineering design company with 2 locations:
Vancouver, WA and San Diego CA
• Believe the best solution is the simplest one to
accomplish the goal reliably
• Experts in mechatronics, sensor-integrated smart
products, and precision motion control
• ~50 employees, listed on over 100 patents
• Mechanical, firmware, electrical, manufacturing and
software engineers averaging 20 years’ experience
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Goals for this talk
1. What smart goods applications is Simplexity
helping customers with today?
2. What are the limitations of current technologies?
3. What is in store for the future in smart goods?
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Case Study 1:
The Microsoft Band
What is it?
• Wearable device for your wrist
• Full health and exercise tracking
• Syncs to WindowsPhone, Android, and iPhone
• Shows email previews, calendar alerts, incoming calls & texts
• Contains guided workouts, automatic activity counting, run, and bike
mapping with built-in GPS
• Tracks sleep: total sleep time, sleep efficiency, wake-ups
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Case Study 1:
The Microsoft Band
Technical Challenges
1. Compact size
2. Water and sweat resistance
3. Industrial design
4. Human factors/ Ergonomics
5. Safety
6. Durability
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The Microsoft Band
Manufacturing Advances
1. Insert molded Stainless Steel Metal Injection Molding (SS MIMS)
Strict geometric constraints, tight tolerance requirements, and a need for
high strength eliminated more traditional forms of manufacturing for a few
critical parts
Combining detailed Finite Element Analyses (FEA) with vendor research,
SS MIMS process was selected and designed for in order to provide a
successful substrate. ABS/PC is then shot onto the substrate to provide
more reliable profile accuracy and a TPE-compatible interface
Working with MIMs vendors and clever design, part cost was able to be
brought down to acceptable large-scale levels
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The Microsoft Band
Manufacturing Advances
2. Integrated Flex Circuit
Waterproof, sweatproof, and safety requirements demanded
creative solutions for Flexible Printed Circuit (FPC) and battery
integration
Insert molding directly to the FPC allowed contact potting and
gasket sealing with ease of assembly, high positional accuracy,
and a flexibility in materials
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The Microsoft Band
Manufacturing Advances
3. Complex Sheet Metal Substrates
The main band substrate provides a complex yet critical
“backbone” to support and locate all other subassemblies of the
device
More expensive and fragile techniques have been common
among competitive products but using thin, spring-hardened
sheet metal allowed for design complexity, excellent feature
accuracy, and high strength at a very low cost
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Case Study 1:
The Microsoft Band
Challenges
1. Compact size
2. Water and sweat
resistance
3. Industrial design
4. Human factors/
Ergonomics
5. Safety
6. Durability
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Solutions
1. New manufacturing processes, metal instead of plastic
for backbone, FPC and cross-team cooperation
2. FPC insert molding and TPE overmolding for
integrated gasket features, sealing of components
3. Compact latching, curved cover over display, many
trials with overmolding
4. User studies, market and trial research with cross-
team collaboration
5. Creative sealing techniques along with complex
battery housing design
6. Sheet metal backbone for strength & flexibility, FEA
analyses and testing (drop, pull, twist)
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The Microsoft Band
Needs in Technology
• Miniaturization of common smart goods components e.g.
accelerometers, gyros, cameras, batteries, etc.
• Advancements in FPC trace density, flexibility, and available
components/features
• Display size, shape, and flexibility
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Case Study 2: Bowflex® SelectTech
560 Dumbbells get smarter
What is it?
• An entire rack of dumbbells in one
• Selectively choose how much weight each holds
New features
• Tracks sets, reps & weight
• Integrated Bluetooth Low Energy communications
• Syncs and records sets, reps and weight
• SelectTech ® 560 3DT Workout App for iOS and Android
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560 Dumbbells get smarter
Technical Solutions
1. Battery Life
Use of low power embedded ARM CPU
& optimization of CPU power usage.
Minimization of active time for all
sensors: weight and accel/gyro
2. Positional Accuracy
Auto switching between rotational and
translational exercises.
Filtering & continuous calibration for
translational exercises.
Note: representative data, not actual
Note: representative data, not actual
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Needs in Technology
• Low Power Sensors
Power technology moving in the right direction. Sensors still consume
significant power: 50% more than CPU (and CPU is oversized for this
application due to memory requirements).
• Low cost position measurement system
Especially one that works at low frequency. The orientation problem is
adequately solved, but position only works for cyclic motions of
sufficient speed.
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Case Study 2: Bowflex® SelectTech
560 Dumbbells get smarter
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Looking to the Future:
From Sensing to Affecting
• Very limited ability of today’s products to manipulate the real world
• The next wave of smart products need to manipulate their
environment based on their sensors
• Key challenges:
Low cost & energy efficient manipulators: motors, solenoids, etc.
Manipulator + feedback sensor integration
Energy distribution / energy harvesting
Easy-to-use security
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• Majority of “smart products” today are
centered on internet connected sensors
• Products great at gathering data from the
real world