It’s always great to kick off the new year with CES, where the latest technologies, trends, and products are showcased, and this year did not disappoint. NXP showcased smart solutions that exemplified the essence of being Brighter Together.
We had three tracks in the NXP pavilion—Brighter Journeys, Brighter Places and Brighter Lives. In this blog, we will provide a brief overview on how wireless connectivity is providing the foundational building block for us to deliver solutions for Brighter Lives. Advancements in seamless connectivity, security and edge processing continue to accelerate the transformation of the Smart Home to the Autonomous, Intelligent Home. In the Brighter Lives area, we demonstrated our latest solutions and industry collaborations, including Matter-enabled appliances, AI-assisted healthcare, seamless access control and an autonomous energy experience.
NXP collaborated with more than a dozen partners to deliver this impactful experience with Matter as the backbone for seamless connectivity. geo (Green Energy Options, Ltd) demonstrated its SeeZero products, including their Matter-certified Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) device and Smart Thermostat—orchestrating energy awareness and usage especially focused on high-energy consuming home devices such as HVAC units, EV chargers, water heaters and smart dryers. Enabled by NXP’s system-level solutions, the experience simulated various energy events and actions automatically taken upon each event. For example, an adverse weather event simulation triggers an alert to the home residents via geo’s SeeZero HEMS device and then reduces energy usage by changing the temperature setting or lowering the level on the HVAC, turning off the EV charger, turning off the water heater, and pausing the dryer. These actions take into consideration the residents’ preferences as well. Once the weather event passes, the system autonomously schedules putting the devices back to the original state in a scheduled fashion so that the grid is not overloaded. The variety of devices included in this demo implement technologies like Matter, AI and more from NXP.
NXP provides full system-level solutions for Matter-enabled devices to allow product makers to more easily implement connectivity and focus on innovation. This demo highlights energy-related devices including device types supported in the latest iterations of the Matter spec, using our FRDM development platforms and SW acceleration tools for Matter and application development. The solutions include devices such as thermostats, smart energy meters and auto EV charging stations represented as a full reference solution from NXP called EasyEVSE —all of which incorporate NXP technologies for processing, connectivity, analog and security.
We provided an early look at our highly integrated solution for effortless and secure access control. Leveraging NXP’s years of expertise and leadership in hands-free car access, this solution unifies secure access and autonomous technologies, streamlines development, and is mobile ecosystem ready. The demo delivers a hands-free and secure experience in unlocking and locking a door based on your position using UWB and Bluetooth Low Energy. Our solution integrates the necessary building blocks of HW, SW, trust provisioning services and a variety of connectivity options— autol UWB, NFC , Bluetooth Low Energy. This solution will also support Aliro, a new standard being developed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance, which will establish a standard communication protocol between access readers and user devices. As an active contributor, NXP has a deep understanding of the technology. Stay tuned for more information about this solution as we bring it to market over the coming months. We also showed end products from our customers leveraging our solution: Xthings with their Ultraloq door lock and a MinebeaMitsumi door lock which also includes Matter over Wi-Fi along with the hands-free support via UWB and NFC needed for Aliro and similar solutions.
NXP showcased Brighter Lives at CES 2025. Visit our CES page to learn more.
Healthcare is facing unprecedented challenges—rising costs, staff shortages and the growing need for personalized care. NXP is at the forefront of this transformation, providing cutting-edge technologies and solutions to deliver personalized care directly at home.
With AICHI, an AI controller for health insights, we provide an Edge AI platform that securely collects and analyses multimodal health data in real time. The AI controller uses information from environmental sensors that are part of a Matter-enabled smart home and from noninvasive health devices like blood pressure monitors, ECG patches, glucose patches, and/or medical smartwatches. AI models are then used on the sensor data to predict and provide actionable health insights to authorized caregivers outside of the home.
The solutions NXP showcased at CES for intelligent energy, Matter, access control and healthcare will not only move the IoT industry forward but also improve the lives of end consumers. Intelligent energy will ensure lower energy bills and a lower carbon footprint, AI in healthcare will help patients get the care they need, and standards like Matter and Aliro will ensure interoperability and open the door to exciting innovations throughout 2025.
Sujata Neidig has over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and is currently Director of Marketing for Wireless Connectivity where she drives product marketing and standards efforts for IoT connectivity. She also represents NXP on the Thread Group and Connectivity Standards Alliance’s Board of Directors as well as serving as Thread Group’s VP of Marketing. She is based in Austin, TX.