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Meridian Innovation Redefining Low-Cost Thermal Imaging for the AI Era
Meridian’s Cheetah sensor offers 50-by-50 resolution thermal imaging under $10, enabling affordable AI-powered safety and health monitoring in consumer IoT devices.
- Meridian Innovation's Cheetah won Best Sensor of the Year at EE Awards Asia 2025 in Taipei, with a 50-by-50 CMOS thermal array and a sub-$40 price for consumer IoT devices.
- Faced with a market split between expensive industrial and weak low-cost modules, Meridian designed Cheetah to fill gaps in affordable high-performance thermal sensing and accurate non-contact health monitoring for smart homes and wearables.
- Meridian re-engineered thermal-sensor fundamentals to shrink size and preserve performance by merging miniaturization with reliability, leveraging more than 200 man-years of engineering and adopting micropackaging, TO-CAN, factory calibration, shutterless design, SPI, and I²C for wearables.
- Device makers across sectors are evaluating Cheetah for new products, and Meridian says it can mass-produce the sensor to meet near-term global consumer demand.
- Accessible CMOS-based sensors could accelerate mainstream adoption by removing price barriers, while AI in homes and healthcare boosts thermal sensing for privacy; near-term uses include automotive cabin monitoring and non-contact temperature and sleep monitoring.
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Meridian Innovation Redefining Low-Cost Thermal Imaging for the AI Era
TAIPEI, Dec. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Meridian Innovation's Cheetah thermal imaging sensor claimed this year's Best Sensor of the Year award at EE Awards Asia 2025. This follows last year's recognition of the Panther sensor and marks the fourth consecutive…
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