Using the iPod Diagnostic Cardiology? new technology to detonate subdivision

In this sector, every year some segment seemed better than other market to attract more attention and more rapid development.

This year reached the hot market status of one of the plates are medical electronics. Medical imaging itself has 180 billion global market. Tracking the industry Parks Associates the company estimates that the total United States health market, the digital home to 36% of the average annual growth rate of growth, and in 2010 to 21 billion industry (Figure 1). This growth is mainly by health monitoring program and online medical information delivery service for rapid expansion of the driver.

Several wireless OEMs and chip manufacturers have medical electronics as the rapid development of the market, and has made the expeditious response.

Microchip Technology and Texas Instruments company has set up a vertical business units to develop to meet the specific requirements of the medical groups.

Dependent on their development skills, mini product brands and its own sales of traditional consumer electronics (CE) OEM are also being tested on this market.

They together with the medical device manufacturers as "personal" in this glossary gives a new meaning.

In an attractive design and small size of the industry, when the Oticon Delta digital A/S listening device in this year's international consumer electronics show in the best innovative design and engineering design prize, some consumer electronics traditionalist still surprised (Figure 2).

United States Temple University School of medicine, Associate Professor of clinical medicine, Cardiology expert Michael Barrett recently at the annual United States Cardiology meeting report, that a doctor can use over and over again to improve the iPod to listen to the heart heart attack their diagnosis.

Previous studies have shown that physicians agree with normal heart sounds average rate of 40%.

In the new study, 149 General physicians use iPod in 90 minutes of conference time heard five ordinary bruits 400 times. In this session, the average rate increase to 80%.

Located in the United Kingdom industry analyst firm Wireless Healthcare is expected, based on consumer electronics in treatment and care of equipment and services market will grow by 20% and in 2010 to reach $ 4 billion.

The company indicated that many products from CE groups will carry out special design, so as to be able to remotely monitor the most elderly patients and guided online ECG analysis.

Microsoft Corp. announced last summer, the company will provide software for medical applications.

Microsoft hired United States Washington Center Hospital (Washington Hospital Center) team of 40 members (including the team's two PhD), they developed the medical information system.

Medtronic company of technology researcher Greg Haubrich said, there are several trends will lead to medical new wireless products, such as consumption of battery power less small RF transceiver development.

"To be able to benefit from the use of the wireless connection of medical applications have an extended areas," Haubrich said.

The doctor is available through electronic devices for heart failure symptoms closely, test weight and blood pressure increased, the subtle and the patient feel discomfort before asking the patient to the hospital.

For example, Boston Scientific Corporation's Latitude patient management system enables doctors to wirelessly monitor heart disease specific information. Some technical standards organizations are committed to compare systems interoperability.

Last year, the Continua Health Alliance as an open industry organization set up to establish a connection to a personal health and fitness products and services ecosystem.

The Union by including Cisco Systems, IBM, Intel, Medtronic, Motorola, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics and Sharp Electronics, most industrial companies, is committed to providing individual health system to establish standards of work.

"We are an organization in the Organization, a few seemingly independent industry can work together to connect standard to their products and services, and provide for millions of people to better manage their health and managing their family's health tools," the Union President and CEO, Intel health equipment standard. David Whitlinger

In the last year, the Bluetooth SIG (Bluetooth Special interest group) set up a working group to establish a medical equipment and medical devices approved Bluetooth functionality, this adds Bluetooth technology to medical, health and fitness market.

Full functionality is expected in the current version of all Bluetooth technology.

The interest group's leadership as Intel Corporation digital health group, senior wireless standards architect Robert Hughes, the interest group expected Bluetooth device is in the blood pressure monitoring, weight measurement, Pulse Oximeter, pulse/heart rate monitor and a thermometer.

Hughes said the initial frame may be in the third quarter of this year.

ISO/IEEE 11073 personal health data working group also wished to publish before the end of this year a group for independent of the transport of standard and individual remote medical devices and information framework between monitors.

United States Federal Communications Commission (Federal CommunicaTions Commission) are doing their job responsibilities, initiate action to 401MHz ~ 406MHz band of advanced medical radio communication (called MedRadio) equipment to establish a new service.

FCC has proposed for these devices assigned additional 2MHz spectrum (401MHz ~ 402MHz and 405MHz ~ 406MHz), the frequency range and existing medical implant communication services (Medical Implant Communications Service, MICS) band (402MHz ~ 405MHz) adjacent, specifically for the medical devices specified 5MHz frequency range.

In order to adapt to the addition of MICS service (limited to the use of implantable devices) of a wider range of devices, the FCC also proposed to permit use of service in MedRadio body-talk transmission equipment.

GPS to find useful

Many analysts expect the location-aware technology will be two to five years.

The Advertising Age "has been on the market research, and that GPS iPod for" new. " As nonstop launches new products in the United States, the personal navigation device sales in 2006 more than tripled, and is expected in 2007 to double again. North American GPS market is 30% per year growth, according to the GPS Industry Committee (GPS Industry Council) is expected, GPS devices sales in 2006 increased to $ 15 billion.

Globally, GPS market will only be growing.

Russia's global navigation satellite system (Glonass) is expected to go global in 2009, while the European Union (EU) is $ 8 billion to develop their own Galileo system to compete with GPS. China has been called the "North Star" of similar systems.

"As the wireless carrier through its broad customer base advantages into this sphere so as to widen the portable navigation device for the first time user, portable navigation market is experiencing incredible change," independent of information communication service provider ATX Group company global automotive OEM sales Vice President Greg Corley said, "but I still have a large number of users who try to understand the navigation from its first navigation device to upgrade, and you want to get more than just turning intersection prompt (turn-by-turn direction) to more advanced features.

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Convergence and location technology there are several.

Cellular network and handheld's assisted GPS, enhanced observation time difference (enhanced observed time difference) and enhanced GPS and other technologies can navigate to the mobile user. Much like radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to navigate and accurate tracking of users, including premises, assets and traditional GPS are usually unable to track the location of the other.

These technologies have opened up some new markets – not only support battlefield army and fleet management, logistics and transport, also support national security and disaster preparedness.

Sony, Nokia, LG, Panasonic and TI, OEM and chip manufacturers are joined by Garmin and Magellan company leader.

Committed to the development and marketing for using GPS location sensing system for semiconductor and software product of SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. has begun cooperation with Motorola to unify its location-driven application programming interface (API).

This will enable location application write once and by deploy many handheld devices. SiRF company SiRFstudio platform will be integrated with Motorola's new location service framework on the device, and vice versa.

Another innovation is the GPS and Wi-Fi network.

By Boston Skyhook Wireless company development of the system uses a contains approximately 1650 million public and private databases Wi-Fi access points by SiRF's GPS technology in various cities across the country are equipped with Wi-Fi laptops and smart phones. As long as the network load the appropriate software, when GPS cannot find you, Wi-Fi system can find you, even if you are indoors or tall buildings.

Of course, the major wireless carrier in the navigation tool was very successful.

However, in the location-based system growth in a potential obstacle to-privacy issues. Harris Interactive survey conducted by the company, including location-based services (LBS) by next generation telecommunications technology, most of the United States mobile phone users are concerned about privacy issues.

Important voice technology

After several years of advocacy, voice recognition is universal.

Speech technology market in 2006, reaching a new high of 10 million u.s. dollars, equivalent to more than two years ago has increased by 100%. Most of the market belong to the phone and car dashboards, and other embedded speed technology equipment. This segment in 2006 reached $ 1.25, and is expected in 2010 over four times, reaching 5 million.

And the new application does not exist.

For example, the Magellan Maestro 4050 GPS is able to accept the "home" and "recent hotel" verbal command (Figure 3). This is the one to navigate (turn-by-turn navigation) system of origination.

Google on this technique very interested.

Use the free Google voice local search, users can call number 800-GOOG-411, simply follow the oral request to search for a specific city business listing. Not to be outdone by Yahoo may soon be using speech technology to help Yahoo sell more mobile advertising.

Microsoft Vista operating system with speech technology.

Microsoft is the acquisition of TellMe Networks the company has issued a help people in the mobile phone through voice or text messages received directly to the list of free services. Call 800-555TELLME, then say "business search", a mobile phone from any business listing in the find or search a particular category (such as "flower"). The manifest also accompanied by a copy of the map. The system also contains text, and mobile services, you can phone or online through www.tellme.com http://m.tellme.com for download.

Another speech technology vendors Vox company TiVo Inc. and United Kingdom Airlines (British Airways) to send command.

United States Army uses the VoxTec system to convert simple Iraq phrases. On such technology is becoming more and more interested in main stems from its substantial increase accuracy. Like most technology development, speech technology systems have become more complete. The past need a box the size of the system will now be just you can on a credit card-sized device.

Low cost of mobility

Technology is not cheap, but it will become more and more expensive – especially for handheld devices and notebook computers, and other emerging markets, in the handheld devices and notebook market, the leading vendor in the market share for developing countries and competition, but in other emerging markets, price is always a problem.

Low-cost trends have general packet radio service (GPRS) handheld devices to high-growth, many analysts believe that this growth will be at least maintained in the next two to three years. Most industry analysts are expected, GPRS cellular phone will remain the largest mobile plate until 2010.

Most of these low-end model will go into developing countries.

Committed to providing the world's most impoverished children in low-cost laptop "one laptop per child" non-profit projects have been announced in the United States selling all kinds of these model plans. "We must not lose sight of the United States. We are very serious about this issue, "MIT Media Lab, the former leader of the project founder Nicholas Negroponte.

Sony Ericsson company will adopt and Flextronics and Foxconn production agreement in India producing low-cost color screen and music mobile handheld devices.

Sony Ericsson company in India's production can reach 10 million phones, approximately equivalent to 2006 Sony Ericsson mobile phones of all of 13%. In addition to the low price, Sony Ericsson also indicated that these phones will provide local content and custom keyboard for the India market.

Agere Systems Company TrueNTRY X122 is a low-cost cell phone platform, the platform to meet the standard of GPRS also integrates chip, software, and Development Kit (Figure 4).

It can also provide CD music, camera/camcorder features and Internet access, the cost of materials (BOM) in less than 30 dollars.

By removing the network browser, simple charging mechanisms, as well as the free Linux operating system, laptop manufacturers have found cut video, and data storage, and other major components of cost method.

The results led to a price of $ 176. third world laptop These laptop manufacturing costs by the end of 2008 also may drop to $ even lower.