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TDK SmartMotion® MEMS inertial sensors

Ultra-low power, high-precision IMUs, gyroscopes, and accelerometers with built-in intelligence

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Industry-leading motion sensing for position tracking

TDK is a pioneer and leader in fully integrated motion solutions, combining high-performance MEMS sensors with advanced MotionFusion™ algorithms and embedded processing. Our MotionTracking™ devices integrate accelerometers, gyroscopes, and sensing software into compact, low-power platforms that deliver precise, real-time motion data with minimal system complexity.

SmartMotion sensing solutions enable high-accuracy performance across consumer, automotive, and industrial applications, including smartphones, wearables, gaming, ADAS, robotics, navigation, asset tracking, and condition monitoring. Together, these technologies power smarter, more responsive, and energy-efficient systems.

SmartMotion key features

TDK inertial sensors deliver accuracy, efficiency, and reliability you can build on
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High performance, lowest gyro noise

Smarter integration, fewer false triggers, and dependable performance users can feel

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Lasting power - always on function

Deliver lasting satisfaction with ultra-efficient, long-lasting battery performance

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Trusted and proven track record

Pioneers in the IMU product category, with over 8 billion chips sold to date

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On-chip sensor fusion and edge intelligence

Supports on-chip sensor fusion and machine learning, to enable edge intelligence on sensors 

Featured video

SmartMotion® TWS solution demo

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

Motion sensing applications across every platform

Discover how advanced inertial sensing drives performance, efficiency, and reliability across consumer, industrial, and automotive systems

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Consumer applications

Consumer motion sensing for intelligent user experiences

Enhance user experiences in smartphones, wearables, and AR/VR devices with smooth motion tracking, gesture control, and screen rotation. 

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Industrial applications

Precision sensing for automation and monitoring

Enable precision monitoring, predictive maintenance, and machine control through accurate motion and vibration sensing. 

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Automotive applications

Automotive-grade sensing for safety and control

Support safety, navigation, and stability features with sensors designed for harsh environments and automotive-grade reliability. 

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Explore the SmartMotion sensor portfolio

From 3-axis to 9-axis solutions, enabling motion tracking, control, and navigation across applications

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9-axis sensors: IMU + magnetometer

Advanced navigation and dead-reckoning

Integrating accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer, these sensors provide complete motion and heading information.

Designed for advanced navigation, drone flight control, and automotive dead-reckoning applications.

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6-axis sensors

Synchronized inertial sensing for precise motion control

Combining a 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis gyroscope, these sensors deliver full motion tracking and orientation data. 

Perfect for smartphone, hearables, wearables, robotics, AR/VR and IOT - offering stabilization systems that require seamless real-time performance.

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3-axis sensors

Efficient single-function motion sensing

3-axis devices are standalone gyroscopes and standalone accelerometers. Ideal for mobile devices, wearables, and IoT applications where responsiveness meets efficiency.

GitHub resources

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SmartMotion sensors drivers and examples

Sensors drivers source code can be found in our public GitHub organization for our SmartMotion solutions. Other available repositories will also provide source code for example use cases. 

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Explore our SmartMotion inertial sensors

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ICM-45605

High-Precision 6-Axis MEMS MotionTracking® Device

The ICM-45605 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.

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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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ICM-42670-P

High-Performance 6-Axis MotionTracking® IMU

Ultra‑low power 6‑Axis IMU targeted at Consumer and IoT applications which require longer battery life. It has the industry’s lowest power consumption for both 6‑axis and accelerometer only operating modes. 

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ICM-42370-P

High-Performance 3-Axis MotionTracking® Accelerometer

The ICM-42370-P is a high-performance 3-axis MEMS accelerometer. It targets consumer/industrial appliances, security camera and IoT applications that require low noise and high accuracy accel data with low power consumption. It features 16-bit ADC for high accel sensitivity and supports wide range of on-chip motion event/activity detection based on interrupt or register access without addition user programming.

The ICM-42370-P is in a 2.5 × 3 × 0.76 mm (14‑pin LGA) package which is pin compatible to standard 6-axis IMU footprint. This drop-in compatibility enables easy transition between 3-axis and 6-axis solution depends on different application requirements.

The device supports a VDD/VDDIO operating range of 1.71V to 3.6V. Other features include configurable host interface that supports I3C℠, I²C, and SPI serial communication, up to 2.25 Kbytes FIFO and 2 programmable interrupts with ultra-low-power wake-on-motion support to minimize system power consumption.

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ICM-42688-P

High-Precision 6-Axis MEMS MotionTracking® Device

6-Axis High performance IMU supporting highly accurate external clock input, that helps to reduce system level sensitivity error, improve orientation measurement from gyroscope data, reduce ODR sensitivity to temperature and device to device variation. 

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ICM-40627

High-Performance 6-Axis MotionTracking® IMU with AirMotion Library

The ICM-40627 6-axis IMU with Air Motion Library is a highly precise, ultra-low-power solution dedicated to motion-control applications such as smart TV remotes, air mouse, presentation pointers, and smart sketching. 

Development kits

Explore our comprehensive development platforms custom developed for each sensor type. * Designed around Microchip G55 MCU can be used by developers for rapid evaluation.

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DK-45686

Development Kit for ICM‑45686 Motion Tracking Device

The DK‑45686 is a comprehensive development platform for ICM‑45686, a high performance 6‑axis motion sensor that combines a 3‑axis gyroscope, and a 3‑axis accelerometer.

The platform, designed around Microchip G55 MCU can be used by developers for rapid evaluation and development of ICM‑45686 based solutions. The DK‑45686 includes an on-board Embedded Debugger so external tools are not required to program or debug the G55 MCU.

The development kit comes with necessary software including InvenSense Motion Link, a GUI based development tool and embedded Motion Driver for ICM‑45686

Embedded Motion Drivers (eMD) consists of a set of APIs to configure various aspects of the platform including ICM‑45686 sensor parameters such as full-scale range (FSR), output data rate (ODR), low-power or low-noise mode, and sensor interface to host (I3C℠, I²C, SPI).

MotionLink is a GUI based development tool included with the platform. It can be used to capture and visualize the sensor data from the motion sensor.

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DK-42670-P

Development Kit for ICM‑42670‑P MotionTracking Device

The DK‑42670‑P is a comprehensive development platform for ICM‑42670‑P, a high performance 6‑axis motion sensor that combines a 3‑axis gyroscope, and a 3‑axis accelerometer.

DK-42688-P: Black PCB with many small chips and components attached to it

DK-42688-P

Development Kit for ICM‑42688‑P MotionTracking Device

The DK-42688-P is a comprehensive development platform for ICM-42688-P, a high performance 6-axis motion sensor that combines a 3-axis gyroscope, and a 3-axis accelerometer.

DK-42605: Blue PCB with many small chips and components attached to it

DK-42605

Development Kit for ICM‑42605 MotionTracking Device

The DK-42605 is a comprehensive development platform for ICM-42605, a high performance 6-axis motion sensor that combines a 3-axis gyroscope, and a 3-axis accelerometer.

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