MicroEJ powers Bong’s latest smartwatch

The Bong X2 delivers time, heart rate and steps information to the user. The user’s experience is unique as it has no buttons or touch screen: it is operated by natural wrist gestures. It has a 128x128 8-bit color square LCD and runs on an ARM Cortex-M4 low-power microcontroller, which makes it very cost- and power-effective.

Bong intends to use MicroEJ Studio to develop small features quickly through apps that are downloaded from the MicroEJ Application Store by owners of the smart watch. Apps run over the firm ware programmed into the smart watch and allow users or manufacturers to extend the product capabilities after its purchase. The Store also allows creation of an open ecosystem of appsdevelopers.

Bong leveraged PC and mobile developers to create the appealing and intuitive GUI of the smartwatch. Developers used MicroEJ SDK rapid prototyping and simulation tools to develop the GUI without the hardware. New features like a calculator app can be developed in one week instead of five, which represents a significant increase in software development productivity and enables creation of more apps that further differentiate the product and provide more value to the user.

Bong adopted a components-based architecture, which allows delivery of functions independently of hardware or firmware thanks to the MicroEJ OS virtualisation layer. 100% of the X2 application code can be reused on Bong’s next project, which eases the creation of derivative products.

The X2 smartwatch project took a total of four months from specifications to production, an estimated two times faster than previous projects, giving a significant time-to-market advantage to Bong and enabling earlier product sales generation.

"We are really pleased to work with MicroEJ," said Sun Dapeng, co-founder of Bong. "The MicroEJ team was helpful in providing us the technical and business assistance that made the X2 project a success."

MicroEJ exhibits at the Wearable Technology Show in London on March 15-16^th and presents its software solutions for wearable device firmware and apps development on the show floor.