BluFlux, a 7-person RF design, engineering and OTA testing startup was picked by Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group to partner on the development of Project Soli. Project Soli is a new interaction sensor that uses radar technology to capture movements of the human hand.
BluFlux worked closely with Google ATAP and provided one of the early antenna prototypes that shaped what the public saw at Google I/O. The Project Soli sensor can track sub-millimeter motions with high speed and accuracy. The sensor fits onto a chip and can easily be built into small devices and everyday objects. The goal of the project is to capture the movements and gestures of the human hand to interact with wearables, Internet of Things and other devices. Google ATAP announced Project Soli on May 29, 2015, at Google I/O in San Francisco.
For the development of the Google ATAP project, BluFlux contributed to the design of two different radar sensor antennas and delivered working antenna prototypes of one of the early Project Soli sensors.
