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Wearables

Intelligence you can wear - powered by TDK sensors

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Sensors for smarter, more intuitive wearables

Wearables bring intelligence closer to the human body. Devices like fitness bands, smartwatches, rings and more, deliver real-time insights and seamless interactions. By continuously sensing motion, orientation, sound, and context, wearables turn everyday activity into meaningful, personalized experiences.

TDK powers the next generation of wearables with a complete, ultra-low-power sensing platform spanning motion, magnetic, audio, and ultrasonic time-of-flight technologies. Our MEMS sensors and embedded software enable designers to create smaller, smarter devices with longer battery life and more intuitive human-machine interaction.

A comprehensive sensing foundation for next-gen wearables

Explore features enabled by TDK sensors
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Ultra-low power performance

Designed for always-on wearables, our sensors maximize battery life without compromising accuracy or responsiveness

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Precision motion & orientation

High-accuracy motion and magnetic sensing deliver reliable tracking, navigation, and gesture control in any environment

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Compact, integrated solutions

Embedded software and sensor fusion in compact form factor simplify development and accelerate time to market 

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High fidelity audio

Ultra-low power microphones enable reliable voice commands,calls and audio experiences

Featured video

SmartMotion® TWS solution demo

Watch a demo showcasing how TWS solution enables natural movement and gestures recognition using SmartMotion sensors.

Wearables in action

Built for the next generation: from everyday wearables to enterprise XR

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Smart rings & health monitoring

Enable discreet, always-on health insights

Smart rings are one of the fastest-growing categories in wearable health technology, delivering continuous wellness insights in an ultra-compact form factor. These discreet devices monitor daily activity, sleep patterns, and health signals while maintaining long battery life and comfortable wear.

  • Track sleep quality, daily activity, and recovery trends to help users understand their overall wellness
  • Control music, notifications, or camera functions through simple hand gestures
  • Receive subtle alerts and wellness reminders through vibration and motion-based interaction
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Fitness bands & smart watches

Turn everyday movement into actionable insights

Fitness bands and smartwatches continue to drive the wearable technology market as users increasingly rely on connected devices to track activity, workouts, and daily movement. These devices provide real-time feedback that helps users stay engaged with their health and fitness goals.

  • Monitor steps, workouts, and activity levels throughout the day to support fitness goals
  • Track running, cycling, and workout performance with real-time feedback and coaching insights
  • Use voice commands to set reminders, send messages, or control connected apps hands-free
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AR/VR & smart glasses

Create immersive and intuitive spatial experiences

AR/VR headsets and smart glasses are enabling new immersive experiences by blending digital information with the physical world. These wearable systems support applications ranging from gaming and training to navigation and contextual information overlays.

  • Navigate immersive gaming and virtual environments through natural head movement and interaction
  • Access real-time directions, contextual information, or notifications through augmented displays
  • Collaborate remotely or follow guided training with hands-free visual instructions and voice interaction 

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Core sensing technologies powering the wearable-future

Advanced motion, magnetic, audio, and time-of-flight sensing for fitness, health, and immersive applications

Sensors

SmartMotion®

Turn motion data into meaningful insights with MEMS inertial sensors

SmartMotion MEMS sensors deliver precise motion and orientation data for wearable systems, enabling responsive interaction, spatial awareness, and advanced motion analytics across next-generation wearable platforms.

  • Deliver always-on motion awareness with compact 6-axis IMUs and sensor fusion
  • Enable intuitive interaction through head tracking, gesture recognition, and controller motion sensing
  • Support navigation and immersive experiences with advanced 9-axis sensing (IMU + TMR)
  • Enable vibration sensing and vocal vibration detection with VibeSense360™ technology
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SmartSound™

Deliver natural voice interaction for wearable devices with MEMS microphones

SmartSound MEMS microphones provide high-fidelity acoustic sensing for wearable systems, enabling clear voice capture, always-on voice sensing, and robust human-machine interaction.

  • Enable reliable voice interfaces with high signal-to-noise ratio, sensitivity, and high acoustic overload point (AOP)
  • Support always-on voice sensing with Acoustic Activity Detect (AAD) 
  • Integrate easily into compact wearable platforms with small, power-efficient microphone solutions
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SmartSonic™

Bring spatial awareness to wearable experiences with MEMS Time-of-Flight Sensors

SmartSonic ultrasonic time-of-flight sensors add environmental awareness and spatial interaction to wearable platforms, enabling devices to sense user presence, distance, and surrounding objects.

  • Enable presence detection, proximity sensing, and range finding for responsive device behavior
  • Support gesture interaction, object detection, and 3D positioning for immersive AR/VR and smart glasses experiences
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Smart Magnetics

Create responsive controls and accurate positioning with TMR, Hall Sensors & PositionSense

TMR and Hall sensors power intuitive interfaces across smartwatches, smart rings, and AR/VR devices. 

  • Enable intuitive controls such as digital crowns, buttons, dials, and rotational inputs in smart rings and watches
  • Deliver ultra-low-power magnetic sensing for precise positioning and long battery life in always-on wearable devices

High-performance IMUs powering next-gen wearables

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ICM-45686

High-Precision 6-Axis MEMS MotionTracking® Device

The ICM-45686 is an ultra high‑performance 6‑axis MEMS motion sensor family with the world’s first BalancedGyro™ technology and lowest power consumption. The sensor combines a 3‑axis gyroscope and a 3‑axis accelerometer in a compact 2.5 × 3 × 0.81 mm package.

The BalancedGyro technology by TDK is the first‑of‑its‑kind gyroscope MEMS architecture that enables supreme vibration rejection and temperature stability performance, an enhancement never seen before in a consumer gyroscope.

ICM-45686 provides higher full-scale range upto 4000 dps and 32g, better temperature stability to reduce temperature related drift, and high-performance features such as Real Time Clock Input and 18/19 bit high-resolution FIFO.

This family offers the world’s lowest power 6‑axis motion sensor. This allows the gyroscope to be on 40% of the times more than any other gyroscope in the industry. This also offers the very first Gyroscope Low Power Mode, enabling ~200uA of 6-axis IMU current consumption, making it the top choice for wearables, hearables and any battery driven IoT application.

It has a configurable host interface that supports I3C℠, I²C and SPI serial communication, and an AUX interface that supports SPI slave mode for connection to OIS controllers or I²C master mode for connection to external sensors.

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ICU-30201

High-Performance Ultra-Compact Ultrasonic Time‑of‑Flight Sensor for Ultra-Long-Range Applications

The ICU-30201 is a high-performance ultrasonic Time-of-Flight sensor that is ideal for measuring the range of objects between 30cm and 9.5m, and offers a customizable field-of-view of up to 180º. It has a sample rate of 75 samples per second at 2 meters, and 18 samples per second at 9 meters. It comes in a 5.17 × 2.68 × 0.9 mm LGA package, and includes an integrated DSP for signal processing.

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T5838

Bottom Port PDM Digital Output Multi‑Mode Microphone

The T5838 is a low noise, high AOP digital Pulse Density Modulation (PDM) microphone using a fifth-order Σ‑Δ modulator. It also features Acoustic Activity Detect (AAD), a new ultra-low power edge processing feature consuming as low as 20 µA.

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