Kieran has been in the MEMS industry for 28 years and he recently served as Managing Director of Audio Products at TDK where he played a leadership role in product development, marketing and business development of MEMS microphones. Earlier in his career, he started a successful MEMS microphone business at Analog Devices (ADI) in 2005, that was later sold to InvenSense in 2013 and is now part of TDK.
"The sensiBel 80dB SNR, 140dB SPL AOP microphone with digital output represents a major disruption in MEMS microphone performance," Kieran states. "I really look forward to be part of the sensiBel team and bring this technology to customers in the Americas."
Stig Torud, VP Business Development, says, "We are thrilled to have an industry veteran like Kieran on the team as we now move to the next phase to introduce our breakthrough optical MEMS Microphone technology to the market."
Kieran Harney will be able to lead sensiBel's efforts with manufacturers and OEM/ODMs given its experience in the practical implementation of MEMS microphones. Traditionally, the approach to increase application performance in systems like microphone arrays is to increase the number of microphones and add post-processing capacity. The sensiBel true studio-quality MEMS microphone will enable the most demanding applications to break with this tradition in many applications for far-field voice and sound capture and suppression of unwanted noise.
The most critical microphone parameters for array configurations are the microphone SNR and sensitivity matching between the individual microphones elements. High SNR translates to improved beam forming, in other words, even better focus on the sound of interest. sensiBel’s high SNR microphone is a key enabler for the next generation improved microphone array solutions.
The sensiBel high SNR MEMS microphone offers a variety of operating modes to integrate with complex headphone systems, to optimize for performance, latency and battery life. sensiBel’s high SNR microphone is also able to handle large low-frequency sounds up to 150dB which can easily occur in close-to-mouth applications. sensiBel does not overload before the sound pressure level reaches 140dB – even 150dB at the lowest frequencies.
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