Dialog Semiconductor Launches Drive into Smart Home Market with Bluetooth Support for Apple HomeKit

Enables development of the fastest, most responsive smart home accessories for highest growth IoT market segment, 190 million-unit home automation market

London, United Kingdom – 05 October 2015 – Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC power conversion, solid state lighting (SSL) and Bluetooth® Smart technology, today announced a Bluetooth Smart development kit, with full support for Apple® HomeKit, to accelerate development of smart home accessories. In a recent report on the connected home, BI Intelligence (https://intelligence.businessinsider.com/welcome?utm_source=House&utm_medium=Edit&utm_term=IoT-HOME-2014-9-30&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=BIIMobile-) predicts that the smart home market will grow at an annual rate of 67% between now and 2019, resulting in 1.8 billion accessories being shipped in that year.

Dialog’s Bluetooth Smart development kit, based on its SmartBond™ DA14580 (http://www.dialog-semiconductor.com/products/connectivity/bluetooth-smart/smartbond-da14580 ) System-on-Chip (SoC), will help create accessories with the fastest response times, creating the best possible user experience. Initial pairing set up takes 4.5 seconds and pair-verify, which occurs whenever an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch issues a command, takes only 250 ms. The DA14580, which is available in a tiny 2.5 x 2.5 mm package, also offers the lowest power consumption in its class with a peak current of less than 5 mA, maximising battery life.

“HomeKit is unifying smart home accessories with a common set of controls, user interface elements and end-to-end encryption which is an important step for the home automation market, said Sean McGrath, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Connectivity, Automotive & Industrial Business Group at Dialog. “We are pleased to be on board with our own Bluetooth Smart development kit that fully supports the HomeKit framework. Our kit enables developers to achieve differentiation and a competitive advantage through delivering a superior user experience and accelerating time to market for their smart home accessories.”

The SmartBond development kits feature a power profiler for power-optimised coding and Dialog’s SmartSnippets™ software development environment, based on Keil™ µVision tools.

The kits are available now at https://mfi.avnet.com/MFI/

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