A comprehensive review of “cross-border” applications, Murata plays with “black technology”!

Nowadays, people's daily lives are inseparable from various electronic products such as mobile phones and computers, and the endless emergence of black technologies is also constantly improving people's production and life. Today, the editor will take you to take stock of those amazing new products and applications.

Murata's smart helmet gives you peace of mind

Some time ago, a video of a "crispy helmet" went viral on the Internet, sparking public concern about workers' safety. A helmet is a "life helmet" and should be taken seriously. As a giant in the electronics industry, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Murata") cooperated with Toda Construction, a Japanese civil engineering company, as early as 2016, using its own sensor technology advantages to boldly innovate on the safety helmets worn by workers. By adding various sensors such as body temperature, heartbeat, and ambient temperature, the safety helmets can be operated intelligently, record the temperature in real time, and provide feedback on the workers' physical fitness, effectively reducing physical loss and preventing workers from heat stroke. This innovation further improves the usefulness of safety helmets.

Murata Smart Helmet

Murata also hopes that the smart helmet, a wearable device, can truly help workers obtain more effective health information, prevent problems before they occur, provide practical and effective preventive measures, help manufacturers establish prevention system solutions, and effectively reduce the risk of injuries and deaths among workers due to physical and fatigue work.

KENKO Technology: Artificial intelligence that provides "emotion and stress analysis services"

As a conscious and emotional animal, communication is an indispensable way for humans to establish connections in life. With the advancement of IT technology and the application of IoT, how to use the advantages of technology to connect people and intelligent machines to achieve effective communication and harmonious coexistence has become a problem we need to consider.

Based on the consideration of the practical application of artificial intelligence in daily work and life, Murata is well aware that it is necessary to transfer the ability of perceiving and recognizing information that can only be completed by humans to artificial intelligence in order to better play the role of artificial intelligence for humans, and this can be achieved through sensing technology. Recently, Murata, together with Mizuho Information Research Institute and Israeli startup The Elegant Monkeys (hereinafter referred to as "TEM"), jointly developed an artificial intelligence system that can provide "emotion and stress analysis services" - KENKO Technology, to contribute to the promotion of employee health management and health management.

Mizuho Information Research Institute, Murata, and TEM Corporation held a signing ceremony in Tokyo

KENKO Technology is a cloud database-based AI solution that integrates various bio-information sensors embedded in wearable devices and IoT products. Bio-information collected by wearable devices is converted into objective emotion measurements through the unique emotion analysis engine "KENKO AI Algorithm". This quantified emotion data is used for consultation to improve corporate activities and personal work efficiency and health and well-being. Specifically, this system uses wearable devices developed by Murata and TEM to collect emotional loads such as stress, and Mizuho Information Research Institute monitors the collected information to provide consulting services to improve the working environment and employee satisfaction. In this system, Murata can provide wearable devices that collect the necessary bio-information required by KENKO AI Algorithm, and provide technical consultation, introduction support, training and support to customers who provide solutions. In the future, the system will be demonstrated in enterprises and strive to commercialize it in the Japanese market as a service to support "healthy management" and "work style reform."

Boosting the development of the hearable device market

Nowadays, sensor miniaturization is playing a role in an increasingly wide range of fields. One of these fields is "hearable devices" that combine sensor input technology and additional computing power with existing ear-worn devices, such as various multimedia hearables, sports hearables, assistive hearables and other products.

Murata is particularly focused on improving the level of miniaturization and low-energy consumption technology, which is the key to the development of wearable devices. Murata is able to provide key products such as thermistors with a size of less than 2mm x 2mm, quartz products with a size range of 1.0-1.2mm, bandpass filters with a size of 1.1mm x 0.9mm, and embedded antennas with a size of 1.25mm x 1.25mm x 0.55mm. Murata's products have been certified in the global market, from ISO, UL to ESTI, etc., so that products and components can be easily introduced to the global market.

At the same time, Murata also cooperates with customers to provide them with the customized services they need, providing customized designs for embedded antenna products, connection products and other key components of the hearable device ecosystem to help customers maximize the optimization of upcoming products.

The development of electronic devices has enriched people's lives and realized various dreams. Murata's electronic components are one of the driving forces of its development history. Murata's goal is to be an energetic and high-spirited innovator who constantly challenges new topics. With unchanging beliefs, boldly changing oneself is Murata's code of conduct. As a company that constantly pursues change, Murata will continue to provide new value to customers in the future, unlock more black technologies, and subvert your imagination!