Bluetooth and NFC are now married on medical devices
The Californian Green Hills Software Inc and German Stollmann E + V GmbH (a company that works mainly on communication protocols) are working on solutions that integrate Bluetooth and Near Field Communication (NFC).We Recall that the maximum data transfer rate of NFC is slower than Bluetooth (420 kbit/s against 2.1 Mbit/s) but faster in connection time (less then half second).
The first result of the collaboration was to support devices that use NFC technology for the contactless secure access, such as in applications of mobile payment. Still, the collaboration is working on medical devices (Health Device Profile – HDP) using Bluetooth, the Real Time operating system INTEGRITY of Green Hills.
In line with the dictates of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the medical profile of Bluetooth devices has been developed in order to ensure that health care devices, used in the medical and fitness applications, the ability to transfer data between them in a safe and well defined, in wireless.
Recall that the health and medical devices market, increasingly make use of wireless technology to connect the various equipment. Most of the connections is between a processing device, for example, a home health station, a remote device or a computer, and portable devices, which may be the sensors monitoring heart rate, blood pressure or the level of glucose which have within them small air cards.
In this way data transmission can take place transparently to the user, without requiring any physical intervention.
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