How the Engineering Software Used to Manufacture a SmartWatch

Source: www.ansys-blog.com

The Internet of things is changing our lives. It’s amazing to think that the clocks have become communication devices. The Smartwatches represent another step in the long march toward miniaturization of electronic devices. It is anticipated that Apple will get to sell around 15 million watches in the first nine months, with an adoption rate increase supplies while demand reached. Even users of the Android community see the Apple Watch as the catalyst in the market Smartwatches.

The amount of engineering used in these watches is incredible. To carry out design is necessary to resort to virtual simulation systems for engineering. Why the virtual simulation is key in the process of developing a SmartWatch?

Given the popularity of this type of watches are getting, the ability to implement and optimize virtual simulation solutions such as ANSYS has been key in the development companies. Not only is the way to predict the actual behavior of all applications and communication technologies that make up the SmartWatch to the most reliable way, but thanks to her engineers can predict from their resistance to all kinds of external conditions and real scenarios until the impact their use may have on the human body, at all levels.

Integrated in the watch technology to measure blood pressure, pulse control, distance and time. It also acts as a media player messages and music streaming own galleries built into the device. These are just some of the possibilities of this strong device. The video developed by Ansys software maker discovers the keys of the use of simulation in a SmartWatch:

These keys are:

• According to the original design, the inter-connector USB put up with 5 gigabytes / second. The simulation showed that these fail to 2 gigabytes / second, so that they would not receive the signal at high speed.
• The main handicap of small electronic devices their low tolerance for drops and bumps. The simulation allows to know the effect of an impact on the device before its manufacture in order to improve its strength and reliability. In the video you can see how the LCD after impact remains.
• During manufacture of SmartWatch can damage the antenna. Simulation tools such as ANSYS predict the stress to which the antenna is subjected during the manufacture and design measures to avoid it.
• The multiphysics simulation allows to establish what the point limit heating the watch to prevent its use would lead to an overheating inconvenient for the user.
• The simulation recreates SmartWatch behavior and interaction with the human body in different real-life scenarios. Video shows how, with the simulation of ANSYS, was added to a virtual doll SmartWatch in a room with different receivers and electronic devices. We proceeded to analyze the effectiveness of the SmartWatch face high levels of electronic noise. The device in this case reacted as expected, thus assuring that there would engineers failure after manufacture.

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