PEEls adjacent possible keeps expanding.
At some point when these OEMs add a flagship
With a sensor hub( like the one we are waiting on)
It will be a very very nice time to be an investor in this business.

Go here, scroll down a little and see their device list.
note there are IRdA in devices beyond PEEL ones also.

http://peel.com/partners.html

Spice & Celkon pre-load Alibaba-backed smart remote app Peel

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Peel Technologies, makers of the smart remote control app Peel, has tied-up with Spice and Celkon to pre-bundle the app on smartphones manufactured by them. Peel already has similar tie-ups with HTC, Samsung and Xolo.

The California-based company secured $50 million investment from the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, earlier this month. Peel planned to use the funds to expand their products lineup and move from home entertainment to the smart home segment. The company had previously raised $45 million over four rounds, since it was founded in 2009.

Peel also claimed that it currently has over 100 million global users. Note that Peel counts its users as anyone who initiated registration on its app, so the 100 million user statistic is not a correct measure of how many people actually use the app on a regular basis. In India, there are over 1 million activated Peel users.
Peel works with more than 3500 TVs and provides remote control services that feature TV listings. The app also allows users to customize settings on their remotes and has apparently generated more than 50 billion smart remote commands after pairing with 60 million televisions. Currently, the app is available for Android and iOS platforms. Peel has tied up with TV companies such as LG and Samsung, DTH providers such as Airtel, Tata Sky, DishTV, Hathway, Den and Siti Cable.
Earlier this year, the company had launched the Peel.in platform, a search engine for shows that allows TV networks to share URLs on Twitter and Facebook which can be accessed by Peel users to stream that particular show on their device.

Here is how the NXP item reads

NXP Introduces Industry''s Most Power Efficient Microcontrollers for the Growing Sensor-Processing Market

By GlobeNewswire,   November 06, 2014, 09:00:00 AM EDT

LPC54100 Series of Microcontrollers Set a New Standard in Delivering a Smarter Customer Experience and Prolonged Battery Life to Wide Range of "always-on" Sensor-Based Products

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 6, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a major leap forward for sensor-based products, NXP Semiconductors N.V. (Nasdaq:NXPI) today unveiled the LPC54100 series of microcontrollers, a breakthrough in ultra-low power performance for "always-on" sensor processing. With patented, market-proven architectural innovations, the series achieves unmatched power efficiency and consumes an average of 20 percent less power than its closest competitors.

Crucial for always-on applications, the LPC54100 series requires as little as 3µA for continuous sensor listening. A first for sensor applications, its asymmetric dual-core architecture enables scalable active power/performance that enables developers to optimize power efficiency by using the 55 µA/MHz Cortex-M0+ core for sensor data collection, aggregation, and external communications, or the Cortex-M4F core (100 µA/MHz) to execute math-intensive algorithms (i.e., motion sensor fusion) more quickly while saving power.

This architecture is complemented by a range of analog and digital interfaces designed from the ground up for power efficiency — including a 12-bit, 4.8 Msps ADC capable of full-spec performance at the full voltage range (1.62 to 3.6 V), as well as low-power serial interfaces — enabling the LPC54100 series to offer the lowest power consumption for sensor processing than any other microcontroller in its class.

"The advanced features appearing in mobile devices today such as context-, location-, and environment-awareness; motion-, touch-, and gesture-based interaction, even voice activation are made possible by the growing number of 'always-on' sensors," said Jim Trent, vice president and general manager, microcontrollers business line, NXP Semiconductors. "In the near future, other industries will make similar strides by requiring mobile phone product features to enhance their customer's experience. Today, many older MCU sensor-processing architectures are just too power hungry or do not scale efficiently as the number of sensors increase. The LPC54100 series enables any industry to benefit from the smarter, more user-centric experience that sensors can bring."

The LPC54100 Series targets products in mobile, wearable health/fitness, industrial applications (environmental monitoring, home and building automation lighting, and robotics), gaming, or other use cases that require long battery life as a key driver to enhance the end-user experience.

Collaborative sensor processing solutions and developers ecosystem

To enable embedded developers to bring sensor-based designs to market quickly, NXP partnered with strategic manufacturers and sensor-processing middleware providers, including Bosch Sensortec, CyWee Motion, Hillcrest Labs, and others. NXP has also partnered with Bosch Sensortec to offer an application-in-a-box Sensor Processing/Motion Solution that combines an LPC54102 microcontroller, nine popular sensors, including Bosch Sensortec's motion and pressure sensors and sensor fusion middleware, and NXP's LPCXpresso development platform and support. The solution makes it simple for customers to enhance next-generation products by incorporating motion and other sensor-based features.

"This is a great time for sensors and sensor-enabled products," said Stefan Finkbeiner, CEO of Bosch Sensortec. "We have worked diligently with NXP on their Sensor Processing/Motion Solution to provide an integrated development platform to make it easy for customers to create and validate their new sensor-based designs."

"We are excited to see the low power advancements made in NXP's LPC54100 series," said Shunnan Liou, general manager for CyweeMotion. "Sensor use is increasing across many product platforms and with the LPC54100, sensor use can expand into low-power designs offering customers an improved experience."

"Hillcrest Labs is delighted to partner with NXP to deliver innovative sensor-enabled user experiences for mobile and wearable devices," said Dan Simpkins, CEO of Hillcrest Labs. "The power efficient and extensive DSP instruction set of the LPC54100 provides an ideal platform for our state of the art sensor processing software enabling 'always-on' context detection and activity tracking for the next-generation of sensor-enabled devices."

Availability and Demonstration

The LPC54100 series will be available in WLCSP49 (3.2 x 3.2 mm) and LQFP64 (10 x 10 mm) packages in Q1, 2015 with pricing starting at USD $1.99 in 10K quantities. The Sensor Processing/Motion Solution and LPCXpresso evaluation board are available now through NXP-authorized distributors.

The breakthrough efficiency of the LPC54100 Series for always-on sensor processing will be demonstrated in the NXP booth #524 and #525, in hall A4 at the Electronica 2014 Show in Munich, Germany, November 11-14, 2014.

Links

• LPC541xx product Info: http://www.nxp.com/LPC54100
• LPC541xx Sensor Processing/Motion Solution info: www.nxp.com/spm-solution
• LPCXpresso54102 Evaluation Board: www.nxp.com/demoboard/OM13077.html
• LPC541xx Developer Site & Ecosystem Resources: http://www.lpcware.com/content/device/lpc54100

About NXP Semiconductors

Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/nxp-introduces-industrys-most-power-efficient-microcontrollers-for-the-growing-sensorprocessing-20141106-00915#ixzz3Ibi5fcDy

Thiru Arunachalam, co-founder of Peel, said he has “ongoing interaction with the management team at Alibaba.” He said he was introduced to the Alibaba investors through venture capitalist Jay Eum of TransLink Capital. Two other TransLink portfolio companies also have Alibaba capital: Quixey and Tango.

The dialog between Alibaba and Peel management is centered on operational issues. For instance, the Alibaba association has helped Peel to acquire two companies in China. The deals give Peel access to talent in China and leverage in what is the startup’s fastest-growing market, he told Silicon Dragon attendees.

Note the following

NXP has a new product they want to be used for always on. The adjacent possible made this a very expected approach.

What did they do?

They  put an M0+ core in front of an M4.

And what did that give them?  20% lower power.  That is all.

The M0 power figures are not so much lower than the M4.  

No math unit in the M0, it will not run Kalmans like the S2 that will sit in front of the M4

Medicine has the Glasgow coma scale score for level of consciousness.  It has a numerical scale,
3 is the lowest number, 15 the highest.  It is clear that MCUs to get lnger life will drop
Down the the Glasgow coma scale score,
Say leave only a mic on, always, but the device wont know where you are or the context.
Even NXPs dual ARM 0/4 MCU will do that,
An equivalent Glasgow coma score of such a device
Equals 3-5.  QUIKs next FFE/M4 will allow
A competing device to have the maximum GCS
score of 15.


Best thing I heard on the cc?  The word Flagship for their first context aware
Device.  Will a Device with a coma score of 15 be differentiated from one of
3?  The difference is HUGE.

QUIK has the right bits and pieces tomake THE BEST SoC there will be.

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PNI restructured into two companies

PNI Sensor will change its corporate structure and create two companies: PNI Sensor Corp. (PNI) and Precision Navigation Corp

PNI will focus on its SENtral® motion co-processor and its algorithms for context, activity, gesture and pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) to serve the mobile, wearable and Internet of Things (IoT) markets while Precision Navigation Corp. will offer ultra-high resolution, low-noise magneto-sensor technology for automotive, industrial and military markets.

Becky Oh, former president and CEO of PNI Sensor Corp., is now president and CEO of Precision Navigation Corp. and will continue to serve on the board of PNI Sensor Corp. George Hsu, PNI Sensor Corp. Board Chairman, Founder and CTO, is now also CEO of that company.

“With our executive team, we have determined that PNI is not a one-size-fits-all business,” said Oh. “As our core technologies and customer base have diversified, so must we as a corporation evolve to better serve our varied markets and customers. Today as we announce our division into two companies, we celebrate our strengths and continued dedication to meeting customer needs with more attentive focus.”

PNI Sensor Corp.

Under the executive leadership of Hsu, PNI Sensor Corp. will continue to develop the highest-performance software and hardware solutions for extracting user context, activity, gesture, biometrics and location from the mass-produced sensors found in smartphones, wearables and other consumer products. Its sensor-fusion IP features best-of-breed algorithms for context, activity tracking and PDR.

The hardware delivery mechanism for PNI’s algorithms is SENtral, a tiny, ultra-low power, sensor-agnostic motion co-processor that functions as an intelligent sensor hub. SENtral has already been designed into smartwatches and smartphones running the latest Android.

Precision Navigation Corp.

Under the executive leadership of Oh, Precision Navigation Corp. will focus on applying magnetic sensing solutions for automotive, industrial and military applications.

Precision Navigation Corp. offers magneto-inductive sensors delivering more than 20 x higher performance than existing micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) or Hall Effect sensors. Precision Navigation Corp. will leverage its manufacturing line in California.

Both companies will share headquarters in Santa Rosa, Calif.

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Sensor Fusion Goes Open-Source

Group to provide common algorithms

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AUSTIN, Texas – Analog Devices, Freescale, PNI Sensor Corp., and the MEMS Industry Group formed the Accelerated Innovation Community, a group dedicated to providing open-source algorithms for sensors. AIC also plans to announce an I/O standard for sensors in collaboration with the MIPI Alliance.
Engineers shouldn't have "to reinvent the wheel on common algorithms every time they want to add or change functionality in their product," said Karen Lightman, executive director of the MEMS Industry Group (MIG). "Access to an open-source library of introductory algorithms fundamentally changes the development paradigm."
Freescale was an early catalyst of AIC and has added open-source algorithms such as a C source library for 3-, 6- and 9-axis sensor fusion. Sensor fusion is a basic building block for sensor data analytics and for motion tracking, said Freescale's Ian Chen.
"It's all about bringing the relevant data together from multiple sensors to provide a bigger picture of what's going on in a system," Steve Whalley, chief strategy officer at MIG and a former director of sensors at Intel, told EE Times. AIC aims to let engineers "focus their own real differentiating capabilities on the more complex algorithms that are needed for today's products above and beyond the introductory algorithms in the AIC."

Steve Whalley

The key challenge in sensor fusion is effectively separating signal, motion, and noise, Chen said. AIC's algorithms aim to take redundant data from different sensors that observe the same event to distinguish between noise and signals, then compute more accurate information. 
"Sensor fusion encompasses a variety of techniques which leverage the inherent strengths and monitoring that these individual sensors do to achieve more accurate results than the individual components could achieve by themselves," Chen told EE Times.