Need help when doing dirty work? CapTIvate gesture recognition for automatic control

Imagine this scene, you are working in the garage and suddenly smell the smell of freshly baked cookies in the kitchen. You can't wait to try it, you rushed to the door, grabbed the doorknob and went into the kitchen. Hey, your doorknob has become oily. At the same time, your wife is full of sticky biscuit dough and is struggling to open the kitchen faucet. In the era of driverless and hands-free calling, why can't we let the door or faucet open automatically without the need for hands-on operation? Wouldn't it be better if we could control the water temperature with a wave in front of the tap?

Need help when doing dirty work? TI's CapTIvateTM technology can help you

Come into our CapTIvateTM technology – the world's lowest energy proximity and gesture solution. By using the capacitive sensing principle, the MSP430TM microcontroller (MCU) supporting CapTIvate technology can detect hands or people that are close to the sensor in a range of 15 cm or more. Furthermore, these sensors can be arranged to determine the direction of motion, thereby enabling 3D gesture recognition. Operating at a minimum current of less than 5uA in the industry, CapTIvate technology enables years of proximity and gesture sensing in battery-powered door locks, faucets, soap dispensers and many other devices.

Need help when doing dirty work? TI's CapTIvateTM technology can help you

The MSP430 MCU supporting CapTIvate technology has several features built into the chip to enable these proximity and gesture applications.

It senses four parallel capacitive sensors in a 500us period, enabling it to detect fast-moving changes in the capacitive field.

These sensors can be tuned to be triggered by minimal changes due to the ability to detect changes in capacitance below 10 femto.

The "Touch Wake-up" state machine enables the proximity sensor to work with a fully-closed microcontroller CPU, allowing the application to run on battery power for years.

Features such as frequency hopping, oversampling, debounce, and noise filtering enable robust and robust detection in noisy environments.

For more information, check out the CapTIvateTM Technical Training Series Part 6: Proximity Sensing and 3D Gesture Recognition.

To assess proximity and gesture recognition with CapTIvate technology

Purchase the CapTIvate MCU Development Kit, which includes

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