Have I really fallen and can’t get up? Or am I just starting my sit-up regime? If you’re in the room with me, that would be an easy call to make. It’s a different matter entirely for a smart device. It has a stable of sensors feeding it light, motion, temperature, pressure and other environmental inputs.

So how to turn that into actionable data? That’s the focus of a new industry initiative.

Watch my interview with Ian Chen, a manager in FreeScale’s sensor business unit, HERE.