Google's SOLI Chip Explained.
Google announced project Soli back in 2015, during its I/o developer conference. Even after 7 years, people still don't know what exactly is Project Soli.Soli is a technology developed by Google's ATAP (Advanced Technology And Projects) division. This can be used in smart wearables, smartphones, IoT Devices, and much more things.
Here's all that you need to Know about Project Soli.
What is Soli Chip?
Google's project soli is a chip that can track motion & movements on even a microscopic scale. It uses a miniature radar to track real-time movements in its surrounding. Due to its RADAR-based technology, it can track sub-millimeter movements with high speed and great accuracy in real-time.
This 8 x 10mm chip incorporates both the sensor and antenna in a single array and takes very less space.
Neither it has any moving parts so, it can be used in almost any device, plus this chip works through almost all industry-standard material, all this combined makes it usable in almost every condition no matter how harsh.
Along with the chip, Google's ATAP team has developed a gesture-based language to interact with the chip across devices.
How exactly this thing works?
Now let's understand the science behind Soli. According to team ATAP, the Soli chip works on Radar technology. It emits Electromagnetic waves and the objects within the range reflect information back to the antenna. The reflected signals received by the device helped in calculating the gesture by elements like time delay and frequency changes. Soli senses "subtle changes in the received signal over time. By processing these ... Soli can distinguish complex finger movements and hand shapes within its field.
Gesture controls are recognized thanks to a number of different ways the information can be interpreted, including raw radar data, machine learning, probable gestures, and pre-defined interactions.
How is it going to evolve in the future?
Have you watched Iron-Man movies? Isn't it fascinating how Tony moves his hands in the air and interacts with his self-developed AI systems? whether it be Jarvis, Friday, or his legacy EDITH.
Yes, that's the potential that Soli holds. If developed properly, the day is not far when all you'll have to do is move your hands in the air to control your computers, smart home gadgets, and everything else that needs user input to perform the task assigned to them.
And in the present time, we can take devices like smartwatches and integrate Soli into them, because smartwatches are one of those few devices which need a lot of user interaction but have a very limited screen size.
Is it ready yet?
Even though we have already seen soli in action in Google's Pixel 4 series of smartphones but it offered a very limited set of features. Like swipe to change music/skip tracks, wave to silence, etc. And Google dropping the soli in its 5 series might be a sign that it is not yet ready for smartphones.
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