Synergized Ultra-Wideband Ranging and Sensing for Realizing Nuanced Use Cases

Ultra-Wideband technology is gaining popularity in recent times with enhancements to secure ranging and sensing capabilities. These technology enhancements find tremendous use in enabling lot of nuanced use cases in the smart home and commercial deployments that enhance user experience. The intent of this paper is to showcase how the synergy of the capabilities of UWB, like ranging and sensing, can be used to realize use cases that are otherwise difficult to achieve. In this paper, we identify use cases in the context of smart home and commercial deployments. In order to realize these use cases, we detail mechanisms for combined usage of ranging and sensing - introducing co-scheduling formats and optimizations to sensing that form the basis for enabling them. The optimization introduced in this paper enable significant reduction in over the air transmissions as well as support parallel processing in the devices that enables faster identification of Object of Interest. The paper provides details about how we envisage the deployment scenarios for these use cases and how these use cases can be realized using the tools provided in this paper.