DGAP-News

Dialog Semiconductor Plc.: Dialog Semiconductor Launches Drive into Smart Home Market with Bluetooth Support for Apple HomeKit (news with additional features)

DGAP-News: Dialog Semiconductor Plc. / Key word(s): Product
Launch/Miscellaneous
Dialog Semiconductor Plc.: Dialog Semiconductor Launches Drive into
Smart Home Market with Bluetooth Support for Apple HomeKit (news with
additional features)

05.10.2015 / 08:00

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Enables development of the fastest, most responsive smart home accessories
for highest growth IoT market segment, 190 million-unit home automation
market

London, United Kingdom - 05 October 2015 - Dialog Semiconductor plc
(XETRA:DLG), a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC power
conversion, solid state lighting (SSL) and Bluetooth(R) Smart technology,
today announced a Bluetooth Smart development kit, with full support for
Apple(R) HomeKit, to accelerate development of smart home accessories. In a
recent report on the connected home, BI Intelligence predicts that the
smart home market will grow at an annual rate of 67% between now and 2019,
resulting in 1.8 billion accessories being shipped in that year.

Dialog's Bluetooth Smart development kit, based on its SmartBond(TM)
DA14580 System-on-Chip (SoC), will help create accessories with the fastest
response times, creating the best possible user experience. Initial pairing
set up takes 4.5 seconds and pair-verify, which occurs whenever an iPhone,
iPad or iPod touch issues a command, takes only 250 ms. The DA14580, which
is available in a tiny 2.5 x 2.5 mm package, also offers the lowest power
consumption in its class with a peak current of less than 5 mA, maximising
battery life.

"HomeKit is unifying smart home accessories with a common set of controls,
user interface elements and end-to-end encryption which is an important
step for the home automation market, said Sean McGrath, Senior Vice
President and General Manager, Connectivity, Automotive & Industrial
Business Group at Dialog. "We are pleased to be on board with our own
Bluetooth Smart development kit that fully supports the HomeKit framework.
Our kit enables developers to achieve differentiation and a competitive
advantage through delivering a superior user experience and accelerating
time to market for their smart home accessories."

The SmartBond development kits feature a power profiler for power-optimised
coding and Dialog's SmartSnippets(TM) software development environment,
based on Keil(TM) µVision tools.

The kits are available now at https://mfi.avnet.com/MFI/

SmartBond and SmartSnippets are trademarks of Dialog Semiconductor. Other
company and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.