Imec Vzw

Universiteit Gent

Lopos Bv

Iminds Vzw

Bart Jooris

Pieter De Mil

Lieven Tytgat

Jen Rossey

Jan Bauwens

An apparatus for enabling proximity awareness, including: a proximity assessing unit having an Ultra-Wide Band interface to determine a distance between said apparatus and a neighbouring device and/or an orientation of said apparatus with respect to a neighbouring device; a first determining unit determining one or more apparatus parameters; a second determining unit determining one or more neighbouring device parameters; a stimulus generating unit generating a stimulus; and a selecting unit selecting a type and/or an intensity of said stimulus in function of a combination of said distance and/or said orientation, said one or more apparatus parameters and said one or more neighbouring device parameters.

Apparatus and related method for proximity awareness

A method is provided for time accurate execution of MAC logic on a processor able to drive a radio interface. In a first step, a chain of commands is received annotated with a target chain execution time. In a second step, start execution times for the commands are calculated based on the target chain execution time. Then, the chain of commands is executed on this processor at the start execution times.

Real-time execution of MAC control logic

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Oudenburg, Belgium

Bart Jooris