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Harry there my name is Gary Sims Wrangler authority we're at arm techcon 2015 in California and I met up with Jack Zack Shelby from arm hey Zack nicer for you Gary pleasure so tell me a bit about what you do from so I'm lucky enough to be one of the IOT nerds at arm so what we do is we go and build technology and work with a whole bunch of partners to make IOT into what we know from mobile and cloud something really easy to build into real products and real solutions now I OT is a word that the industry is talking about but maybe the average consumer doesn't really know what it is yet what will I OT mean to consumers slowing I think about it is that when when I OT is really successful our lives just be a little bit easier a little bit more intuitive when we're working with real devices and I'll just use the thermostat as a great example right what nest did with the thermostat is they recreated an everyday object that was kind of clunky right you just you never really got it was boring but they spent the time and energy to really make the user experience of the thermostat better and what the user experience is is it learns how you live and does its job for you so you don't have to think about it at all and I think that's the magic of IOT right we're going to see that happen with your door lock right with your automobile with your other everyday household items that you use in your life and they'll just get a little bit easier to use a little bit more automatic you won't have to think about them are worried about them and that's when we've succeeded in IOT now that is a really good definition I realized I know what's arm roll arms role in this IOT revolution so arm as a technology company armed with our partners we produce most of the ships that go into devices that that are in the IOT so electronic gadgets in your home in your street lights and your energy meters all over and what we can do thanks to a common architecture is we can provide software tools for developers cloud services to make things easier to everyone in our ecosystem and that's exactly what we're doing right now we're a software ecosystem we call em bed so make it easier for everyone to create IOT solutions and I mean everyone right i mean everyone from the the tinkerer who's thinking about the new cool IOT thing to the startup that's already on their way to creating a new company to big established companies that are making their products better right we want to make IOT accessible to all of these guys and in fact for the sort of the hacker at home the the entry-level price for em but is really cheap is it like twenty twenty dollars or something and you can get yourself up and running yeah twenty dollars a simple development board we've made the operating system that we've launched recently embed OS we've made it completely free free as in go to production make a product tell us about it and we'll help tell the world about what kind of success you had in doing that and we found that doing that in an ecosystem we have everyone from cloud providers like IBM all the way down to silicon vendors working together to make that easier that's really exciting that's that's power of an ecosystem rather than doing every exactly the power of the ecosystem I think we're gonna look at some demos now yes great so this is a new wearables reference design that we created to try to show what are some of the cool things that you can do with wearable thanks to em at OS and so we have a fully functional low-energy wearable and by low-energy the really amazing thing is with a new type of software energy consumption savings technology we're able to use cortex-m microcontrollers and produce something that has eight weeks of battery life did you just say eight weeks weeks not eight days not eight hours eight weeks so here I'm still at seventy-eight percent battery life six weeks left over eight weeks in total and that's running a real watch with real applications on it absolutely that's actually amazing it's great it make it's going to make it's going to make wearables and our other products a lot easier to use and a lot of a lot less intrusive in our life things like recharging so this is the main PCB inside the watch what you can see here we got a cortex m3 from sigh labs we got m0 from Nordic semiconductors and we and f cortex m4 from st we also got a gps from you blogs we got an NFC chip from st and we got a 9 access motion sensor chip we also got buses and LEDs and vibrator and an SD card if you want to throw some some more information and here you can see the small battery we're using it's a 160 million hours lithium polymer and if you look on the screen here you can see that we can achieve very low power consumption it gives us a battery life around one to two months