By Dugald Campbell Most homes today have appliances such as washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerators, freezers and cookers. It has predicated that by 2020 these traditional home appliances will be replaced with smart appliances. A smart appliance is simply an appliance that can communicate to another appliance or electronic device. For example, your smart washing machine [...]
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 802.15.4, FCC, Federal Communications Commision, group care, Health Care, healthcare, hospital, IEEE, ZigBee
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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, 802.15.4, BLE, bluetooth, Bluetooth low energy, BTLE, consumer electronics, DECT, Health Care, healthcare, RF4CE, ZigBee
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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 [...]
By Jon Adams You’ve grown accustomed to tilting the iPhone or iPad and having the screen change from landscape to portrait, or steering the spaceship to port or starboard. Now you want to put that into your next product – you may want to try a wireless sensor demo kit that detects fall, tilt, motion, [...]
By Jon Adams
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Posted in Everything Wireless, Medical by Design
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Also tagged 802.15.4, alzheimer's, elder care, group care, Health Care, healthcare, hospital, locationing, RF4CE, ZigBee
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By Jon Adams Earlier today the ZigBee Alliance (ZA) announced the availability to the public (outside of the ZA) of the ZigBee Health Care (ZHC) application profile. This is great news! Anyone who’d like to start creating their next successful wirelessly enabled home health care product can head on over to the ZigBee Health Care [...]
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