Sensor data compression and power management scheme for low power sensor hub

Abstract

This paper proposes a sensor data compression mechanism based on the amount of change of sensor input data and a power management scheme for various sensors used for the motion recognition application. The experimental results confirmed that the proposed compression mechanism and power management scheme reduced the wakeup count of the sensor hub core and the amount of data transmitted to the core by about 78% compared to the conventional data buffering structure, and the power consumption of the IMU (inertial measurement unit) is reduced by about 56%.