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Moving your health, accessibility, sports and fitness forward

Health, connected sports & fitness, and accessibility technologies are transforming how people monitor wellness, improve performance, and navigate the world around them. Intelligent sensing enables devices to interpret human movement and environmental context, unlocking new possibilities for training, safety, and accessibility.

TDK powers health, accessibility, sports and fitness innovation with sensing solutions that deliver accuracy, responsiveness, and reliability. Our technologies enable activity tracking, body position sensing, voice interaction, spatial awareness, and real-time insights across devices ranging from wellness technologies and assistive tools to high-performance sports equipment.

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Built-in intelligence

On-chip processing, sensor fusion and machine learning enable accurate activity detection and motion tracking with minimal system resources

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Safety & protection

Advanced detection capabilities identify shocks, impacts, and abnormal motion to support user and player safety

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Real-time responsiveness

Low-latency sensing supports continuous monitoring and fast detection of motion, events, and activity changes

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Flexible integration

Proven software algorithms reduce development effort and enable faster time to market across platforms

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Power efficiency for extended use

Ultra-low-power operation supports continuous, all-week monitoring without compromising battery life

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Audio sensing and voice interface

Integrated MEMS microphones enable voice commands, acoustic awareness, and always-on interaction with ultra-low power

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Accurate activity and body position tracking

High-precision sensing enables reliable measurement of movement, position, and performance for fitness, sports, and wellness applications

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TDK MEMS Sensors Enable Accessibility Innovation with WeWALK's AI-powered Smart Cane 2

WeWALK's AI-powered Smart Cane 2 offers “unlimited mobility” for visually impaired people, enabled by the power of MEMS sensors by InvenSense, a TDK group company.

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Health tracking with smart rings and wearables

Digital health technologies are giving people unprecedented visibility into their daily wellness. Smart rings, activity trackers, and connected health devices use advanced sensing to monitor movement, sleep, and overall activity in real time.

Learn more about Wearables powered by TDK →

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Sports performances and training

Connected sports equipment and training systems are transforming how athletes measure performance and refine technique.  Examples include:

  • Smart helmets with impact detection
  • Connected bats and rackets for swing analytics
  • Motion-based training and coaching systems
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Accessibility technology and assistive technology

Assistive technologies extend human sensing capabilities and  empower people with visual or hearing impairments. Examples include:

  • Smart canes with obstacle detection
  • Smart glasses for navigation assistance
  • Audio AI systems for hearing enhancement and environmental awareness
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Fitness Bands and Trackers

Fitness technologies are helping users stay active and motivated through data-driven movement analysis. Here are some examples:

  • Activity trackers and training monitors
  • Motion-enabled exercise equipment
  • Movement analysis systems for workouts and rehabilitation

Sensors powering smarter health, accessibility, sports and fitness devices

From voice interaction to motion tracking and spatial awareness, TDK sensors enable devices that understand movement, sound, and the world around them.

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SmartMotion®

High-performance motion sensing for intelligent device awareness

SmartMotion MEMS sensors deliver precise motion, orientation, and impact detection for wearables, sports equipment, and immersive devices, enabling responsive interaction and advanced motion analytics. 

  • Track motion, orientation, and impacts for activity monitoring and safety functions 
  • Enable gesture control, head tracking, and spatial navigation with 6-axis and 9-axis sensing 
  • Capture high-precision motion data for sports analytics including velocity, spin, and player movement 
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SmartSound™

Make voice interaction natural and reliable with MEMS microphones

SmartSound microphones capture voice and acoustic signals with exceptional clarity for health,sports and fitness, and accessibility devices. Use SmartSound microphones to:

  • Capture voice clearly for communication, coaching, and reliable voice commands 
  • Enhance accessibility through high-accuracy voice capture and ambient noise reduction
  • Enable hands-free interaction through voice control and acoustic activity/event detection
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SmartSonic™

Environmental awareness through precise distance and presence sensing

Ultrasonic time-of-flight sensors provide accurate distance, presence, and proximity detection, allowing devices to sense their surroundings and respond intelligently. 

  • Detect presence and proximity to automatically activate devices 
  • Provide spatial awareness so systems adapt to user position and surroundings 
  • Enable touchless interaction through gesture recognition and obstacle detection 

 

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SmartMagnetics

Create responsive controls and accurate positioning with Hall & TMR sensors

Hall and TMR sensors deliver precise magnetic sensing for motion, position, and control in health, fitness, and sports technologies. Build more responsive devices with:

  • Enable precise controls for digital crowns, buttons, dials, and rotary inputs 
  • Support autofocus and position tracking in cameras, AR/VR devices, and wearables 
  • Deliver reliable, low-power sensing with robust contactless operation 

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Explore popular sensors for health, accessibility, sports and fitness

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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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ICU-30201

High-Performance Ultra-Compact Ultrasonic Time‑of‑Flight Sensor for Ultra-Long-Range Applications

The ICU-30201 is a high-performance ultrasonic Time-of-Flight sensor that is ideal for measuring the range of objects between 30cm and 9.5m, and offers a customizable field-of-view of up to 180º. It has a sample rate of 75 samples per second at 2 meters, and 18 samples per second at 9 meters. It comes in a 5.17 × 2.68 × 0.9 mm LGA package, and includes an integrated DSP for signal processing.

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T5838

Bottom Port PDM Digital Output Multi‑Mode Microphone

The T5838 is a low noise, high AOP digital Pulse Density Modulation (PDM) microphone using a fifth-order Σ‑Δ modulator. It also features Acoustic Activity Detect (AAD), a new ultra-low power edge processing feature consuming as low as 20 µA.

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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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