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20 Next-Gen Connectivity for Smart Living Here are some of the groups focused on UWB interoperability: • FiRa Consortium: As an industry consortium, FiRa believes UWB technology will transform the way people experience connectivity and is committed to the widespread adoption of UWB applications. FiRa stands for "fine ranging," a term that highlights UWB technology's unique ability to deliver unprecedented accuracy and security when measuring distance to a target or determining position. The consortium is developing use cases across many industries, including hands-free access control, indoor location, navigation, and peer-to-peer applications. Their mission involves developing test specifications, certification programs, and events to support interoperability between UWB products. • Car Connectivity Consortium ® (CCC): The CCC is a cross-industry organization advancing global technologies for smartphone-to-car connectivity solutions. CCC stakeholders include car manufacturers, Tier 1 automotive suppliers, phone manufacturers, semiconductor suppliers, and app developers. CCC is developing the digital key, a new open standard that allows smart devices, like smartphones and smartwatches, to act as a vehicle key. This standardized ecosystem enables mobile devices to store, authenticate, and share digital keys for vehicles over UWB in a secure, privacy-preserving way that works everywhere. • UWB Alliance: The UWB Alliance is working with global regulation bodies and organizations to provide a favorable regulatory and spectrum management landscape to maximize UWB's market growth. The UWB Alliance is also involved in optimizing spectrum sharing to minimize interference from other new and existing standards. Conclusion UWB is a technology on the brink of mass adoption. It is already being incorporated into leading smartphones and a wide range of other devices and is geared to become a communication standard seen everywhere. UWB is uniquely capable of calculating location, distance, and direction with unprecedented accuracy—indoors and outdoors—securely and in real time. These capabilities will unleash a new wave of applications that use this highly accurate location and distance information to deliver new experiences and capabilities, including many applications not previously possible. DWM3001CDK Development Kit LEARN MORE > DWM3001C 6.5GHz & 8.0GHz Ultra-Wideband Module LEARN MORE >