Hello. I am Kishore Ramaiah. Welcome to the TI Radar Series. Let's talk about radar. And today I am joined by-- 

Zahid Sheikh. 

Robert Tolbert. And Kottyn Quintanilla. 

Today, we will talk about the applications of radar in non-automotive space, mostly industrial and consumer electronics markets. Let's start with building automation. Robert, can you talk a little bit about the trends you see in the use of sensing in building automation? 

One of the biggest trends that I'm seeing, Kishore, is an explosion of smart devices into the world. Building smarter homes, building smarter factories, having smarter buildings is becoming really, really important. And what that means is you have more people using smart devices, and when the people go up, the demand goes up. Not just the demand for devices, but the demand for information. So now people are expecting and wanting more from their smart devices. More than just being connected, they want that device to help them make decisions now. 

So how is radar helping solve these sensing challenges? 

Well, one of the things radar does is, as I said earlier, people want those smart devices to now become intelligent, so they need more information. So radar has the ability to provide more information to make those smart devices contextually aware. Radar can provide, not just if you're present, but where are you in reference to the smart device. How many people are in the room? How fast are they moving? Are they standing or are they sitting? It can even do things like calculate heart rate and breathing rates. So all of that now contextually aware information, the smart devices can take that and begin to help the users make decisions. 

That's interesting. But can you talk about a few applications where all these features you just mentioned about could be applicable? 

Yeah. One of the places where it's most applicable is in video surveillance and security, in particular, video doorbells, or just indoor occupancy sensors. People want to know who's there, and they want to be sure that when their video camera pops on, or when there's a notification that someone is present, that it's something of interest. It's not curtains blowing in the wind or, excuse me, curtains blowing in the room or bushes blowing in the wind. 

Radar has the ability to detect what are all those things and actually give you more information so that you can make accurate decisions on whether or not you want to stop watching the television and answer the door, or whether or not you want the air conditioner to come on or not. 

Well, that sounds exciting. Can you talk about how TI is helping in this regard with their radar sensors? 

So TI offers a broad portfolio of radar solutions, going from just the radar front end all the way to offering radar sensing solutions that include the radar front end as well as processing elements. What that means is customers don't have to add processing elements to their device in order to get to process the radar information. In addition to that broad portfolio of hardware solutions, TI also offers software in order to help our customers get started in running those applications. 

So Robert, how can developers get started with TI radar? 

The easiest way to get started is going to the TI website, so www.ti.com, backslash, IWR. That gets you to the industrial radar page, where you learn more about the devices and the applications. From there, you can order samples, you can order EVMs, and you also get access to software. 

That software access is actually housed in our Radar Toolbox. On that Radar Toolbox, developers will get example projects, like how to get the radar started to do a presence detection application. They'll get source code there. They'll even get some testing data as well. So between those two places, going to ti.com page, as well as the Radar Toolbox, developers can get started and be up and running with a radar-based application very quickly. 

Do developers have to pay money to TI to get access to these resources? 

No. All of those resources are offered free of charge to the developer, meaning the software aspects. Samples and EVMs are at a minimal cost, which you can find there on the website as you begin to go through the different product portfolios, the different product pages for the different devices. 

Thanks, Robert. Thanks, Kottyn, and thanks, Zahid. Thanks for watching the video. The next video will come back with a different topic.