By Jon Adams Connected medical devices are part of the future of health care. And unless it’s a piece of “big-iron” equipment like a CT scanner or MRI machine, wireless is quickly becoming the preferred method for getting data from the device to the data repository, loved ones or the care provider. But there’s wireless [...]
By Jon Adams
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Posted in Everything Wireless, Freescale, Medical by Design, The Embedded Beat
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Also tagged FCC, Federal Communications Commision, green technology, group care, Health Care, healthcare, hospital, IEEE, ZigBee
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Over two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese and nearly 1 out of every 2 people are living with at least one chronic disease. The average age of the population is creeping upwards, partly from lower birth rates but also because people are living longer. The cost to the nation of health care continues to [...]
January 11, 2011 – 6:08 pm
By Jon Adams Seems like everyone wants to get into enabling the wireless part of the world of wireless sensors. Now there are the DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) fans! What’s DECT? It’s a wireless communications technology that’s been around for over 20 years, and today is pretty much used exclusively for cordless home telephones. [...]
By Jon Adams
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Posted in 802.11, 802.15.4, Everything Wireless, Freescale, The Embedded Beat, Wi-Fi
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Also tagged 802.11, BLE, bluetooth, Bluetooth low energy, BTLE, consumer electronics, DECT, green technology, Health Care, healthcare, RF4CE, ZigBee
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December 13, 2010 – 5:38 pm
By Jon Adams Over a year ago, the US NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) added ZigBee wireless technology to its Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, which defines systems and technologies that are approved for use in the rapidly growing smart grid. Then two months ago, in October, the Association of [...]
By Jon Adams
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Posted in 802.11, 802.15.4, Everything Wireless, Freescale, Smart Energy, smart grid, The Embedded Beat, Wi-Fi, ZigBee
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Also tagged 802.11, 802.15, bluetooth, HomePlug Green PHY, PHY, smart grid, Wi-Fi, ZigBee
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December 7, 2010 – 8:15 am
By Jon Adams I admit it, I was born in Hollywood and raised on countless hours of Hollywood’s finest television. Much of my early life was spent (some would say wasted) watching great stuff like Star Trek, Emergency!, Knightrider, and dozens of other programs on analog broadcast television. For you young’uns, there wasn’t a Hulu, [...]
April 15, 2010 – 11:28 am
By Jon Adams In my idle moments I’ve been perusing my copy of the IEEE 802.15.4g draft standard document, which is now out for comment within the IEEE group. Last time, I noted the highlights of the proposal – the many new modulation methods, the different approaches to spread spectrum, the multiplicity of frequency bands, [...]
By Jon Adams The March plenary meeting of the IEEE 802 group in Orlando saw a lot of progress in the Smart Utility Network (SUN) 802.15.4g task group. As a result, the first Letter Ballot Draft was distributed to the group for their review and approval. The copy I have is Draft 1, dated March [...]
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