The Bong smartwatch X2 delivers time, heart rate monitoring and steps information to the user. The user experience is unique as it has no button or touch screen: it just operates by natural wrist gestures!
Bong‘s challenges for designing the X2 smartwatch were:
MicroEJ In Action
Bong developers were able to develop the application software on a virtual device (business code and graphical user interface) while the hardware and MICROEJ VEE software platform were designed by an other team.
Application development and hardware design were preformed in parallel and were validated separately: their integration only took a couple of weeks before getting to mass production.
Bong could deliver a new feature within one week instead of five, which represents a dramatic increase in software development productivity.
This could be achieved by using Object Oriented Programming and component frameworks promoted by MicroEJ solutions that simplifies code changes for maintenance and upgrades.
To create a consistent product range (same branding) while leveraging latest electronic innovations (processing, low-power), Bong developers could take advantage of MicroEJ software portability across processors and RTOS’s to reuse their investment in Graphical User Interface (GUI) software design.
They could create product derivatives with new electronics without jeopardizing their software application.
The Bong X2 smartwatch was developed in four months only, twice faster than usual and allows to create additional features as the competition and the market move.
The Bong X2 has a 176*176 color square LCD and runs on an ARM Cortex-M4 low-power microcontroller, which makes it very cost- and power-effective (estimated stand-by time is 15 days). Connectivity is powered by Bluetooth 4.0.
