Amazon's proposed device that would use radar for general motion control and to track sleep hygiene without requiring physical contact has been given the green light by the FCC.
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Amazon is starting to develop a way to monitor sleep with a radar sensor
Bloomberg reports that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has given Amazon approval to move forward with an as-yet-unannounced device that would use radar to track movement. According to Amazon, the use of radar would make it possible to capture movements in 3D space, which would greatly benefit users with movement and speech impairments. It can also be used to monitor a user's sleep with more precision than most other sleep monitoring devices currently available.
The approval document released by the FCC reveals that the Amazon device would be "non-mobile" and require a constant connection to a power source to function – much like the Amazon Echo. Although unlike the Echo, the use of radar would make non-verbal, contactless control possible as the device would be able to read the users movements.
"We find that Amazon's radar sensor, when used for the specific types of applications that Amazon has described, is sufficiently analogous to the situations we evaluated for the Google Soli radar to allow us to reach the same conclusion here," the FCC wrote in the approval. document, "And, as with Google's devices, Amazon's radar will be used to capture movement in a discrete space characterized by a short distance between the radar and what it senses."
