Healthcare Wireless and Device Connectivity

Wireless Interoperability and IOT

The latest and greatest term out in 2014 is IOT or the Internet of Things.

With the release of Low Power Bluetooth, the convergence with the WLAN and the cloud, this allows for very low cost solutions to be built and deployed. Major opportunities abound in providing new care models outside the four walls of the hospital.

In fact, this will drive down costs as well The consumerism of technology often drives the the enterprise. With LPBT virtually in every smart phone, this again provides unique opportunities for the care provider to leverage this gateway. While NFC irDA may have not really taken off, the now combination of WLAN, LPBT, and GSM/LTE will drive new healthcare business models. This is the true definition of Wireless Interoperability.

Finally, Ulbox a Swiss company has acquired www.connectblue.com.

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AAMI Philadelphia

This meeting is fast approaching and happy to see it in Philadelphia. Will be speaking in the Draeger booth on the value proposition of WLAN for patient monitoring. Happy to engage in active discussions of WLAN versus WMTS., etc. Should be a very good weekend.

Motorola Solutions and the Opportunity for Zebra

Motorola is going through quite a transformation. A while back the handset division (cellular) and related patents was sold to Google. A move perhaps to go head to head with Apple? Now in the past thirty days Motorola solutions (composed of WLAN infrastructure, bar code scanners and mobile computing), has been sold to Zebra for around 3.4B. Folks may ask who is Zebra? The are the world leader in portable printing. The former Motorola Solutions (now Zebra) will be re-branded Symbol. I see this as a very good move as it provides the ability to innovate and focus on the special attributes of mobile computing and the enterprise WLAN. Most do not know but Symbol was the original leader in the WLAN space, before 802.11b got approved in 1999. Their experience in this space is vast and deep. Most think that a radio is a radio...and this is not the case. Stay tuned to future blogs as this will quite interesting!

Integra Systems, Inc. Web Site and email address

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