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10 Smart Mobility and the Technologies Paving the Way The Precision Story It is easy to demonstrate how impactful precision can be by considering a few examples from history. Precise timekeeping brought benefits for marine explorations. The industrial revolution was fueled by precision machining that led to breakthroughs in manufacturing with interchangeable components. Regarding the semiconductor industry, the fabrication processes related to semiconductor design require an extreme level of exactness to build circuits with billions of transistors in the nanometer range. These are just a few of many examples where precision has played a disruptive force in our world. Leveraging aspects of these past technological breakthroughs–timekeeping, manufacturing precision, and semiconductor exactness–Bluetooth and UWB ranging delivers a more scalable and precise way to determine the location and range of just about anything. Precise Ranging With UWB technology, a range with ±100mm precision is achievable. At NXP Semiconductorss, the design of UWB radio transmissions is based on radio-frequency (RF) pulses. These pulses measure the time it takes for radio waves to travel from a measuring device to a reflecting device in a method called Time of Flight (ToF). ToF measurements are translated into the distance that the RF waves travel at the speed of light. In addition to the advantages that ToF RF pulses bring to time measurements, the reduction of the RF signal bouncing off objects in the measuring environment must be factored. UWB allow these signal scattering effects to be managed. Coupled with security protections enforced by the NXP design of UWB, the technology has been proven to be one of the most precise and secure solutions available in the market. IoT Precision One of the great promises associated with the IoT is the efficiency that the technology can bring. With precise ranging, the path to efficiency is more achievable than ever. Several aspects of precise ranging contribute here. One is moving from proximity awareness to exact locationing. For example, let us consider a hospital environment where tracking of life-saving equipment or people such as critical care workers, dialysis machines, bypass machines, or smaller surgical tools must be precise and real-time. Wasted minutes or even seconds with proximity awareness versus an exact location could