Equipped with a Panasonic infrared sensor, enabling rapid prototyping.

Online electronics component store Element14 (http://kr.element14.com/) announced the launch of the Grid-EYE infrared (IR) array sensor evaluation kit, equipped with Panasonic's high-precision IR sensor platform for rapid prototyping.

The Grid-EYE evaluation kit is the result of combining Panasonic’s industry-leading Grid-EYE sensor with the “nanopower” Bluetooth Smart module PAN1740 and a microcontroller mounted on a single PCB, enabling the design and development of wireless sensor prototypes in a short period of time.

It can detect various human bodies or objects moving in diverse directions, such as up, down, left, right, and diagonally, and this includes hand movements for gesture control.

The Grid-EYE sensor module includes various 8x8 infrared pixel matrices capable of measuring temperature up to 10 times per second over a wide temperature range from -20C to a maximum of +100C. Communication with this kit is possible wirelessly via the built-in Bluetooth module or through a wired USB link.

This kit offers two operating modes, such as standalone devices or integration with the Arduino DUE platform, allowing it to be used in fields such as motion recognition, gesture control, temperature distribution detection, and the Internet of Things.

In addition, it features a bootloader accessible via a pin header, a data display interface for PCs and smartphones (Android and iPhone), a reset switch for both the board and Bluetooth, and firmware/app loading via a JTAG header or USB port.