8. January 2011 by admin.

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Telehealth describes the use of embedded devices – including smartphones or tablets with 3G/4G connections, devices with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, or other wireless networking technology, or larger platforms with Ethernet – to help people connect with healthcare providers wherever they may be. The setting for a telehealth device can be a clinical environment such as a hospital or doctor’s office, or a home where caregivers aren’t always present. Expanding care from treatment to prevention is the ultimate goal of these new devices, and an expanding market is creating more possibilities to help people and make a difference. With multiple analysts projecting telehealth to grow rapidly into an $8B market in 2012, it’s time to explore the technologies inside telehealth devices and how designers can leverage what’s available now into creating the next breakthrough devices. We’ve drawn on experts in embedded computing with an emphasis in telehealth applications, and our guests on this live event include: 

Speakers 
Ron Riesenbach, VP, Emerging Business for the Ontario Telemedicine Network, on the challenges one of the world’s largest telehealth networks has faced and what they see as needs for connected devices now and in the future 

Steve Kennelly- Senior Manager, Medical Products Group- Microchip Technology, 
Steve has been with Microchip Technology since 1999 and leads the Medical Products Group, which addresses the specific needs of the medical device industry. Initially, he helped establish Microchip as a world-class supplier of automotive products in his role as a marketing manager in the Microchip Automotive Products Group. 

JP Auffret, Co-Founder and Director of the Center for Advanced Technology Strategy, on what projects like the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NoVaRHIO) are working on to improve efficiency of care and availability of patient information in telehealth networks, and what that means for devices 

Paul Anderson is VP of Engineering at GrammaTech 
Paul manages GrammaTech’s engineering team and is the architect of the company’s static-analysis tools. He has helped a wide variety of organizations, including NASA, the FDA, the FAA, MITRE, Draper Laboratory, GE, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing, apply automated code analysis to critical projects. Paul has worked in the software industry for 18 years, with most of his experience focused on developing static-analysis, automated-testing, and program-transformation tools. 

Moderator 
Don Dingee, editor of Embedded Computing Design, on the overall trends for telehealth devices and eHealth. 

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28. February 2009 by admin.

Check out http://www.vscp.org

VSCP stands for Very Simple Control Protocol and it is, as the name implies, a very simple protocol indeed ( a protocol is much like a language for machines etc on how they should talk with each other). It is simple because it has been developed for use on low end devices such as micro controllers. But actually its more then just a protocol. Its a complete solution for measurement and control. And even though VSCP is very easy to use it is still very capable and can be used in very demanding control situations.

Except for a very well specified message format the protocol supports global unique identifiers for nodes, a register model to give a flexible interface to node configuration and a model for node functionality.

VSCP does not assume anything about the lower level system. It works with Ethernet TCP/IP, Wireless, Zigbee, Bluetooth, CAN, GPRS, RS-232, USB and everything else you want. Its just a uniform way of describing the systems available. Every control situation can be described and implemented using VSCP.

A normal user does not see or know much of VSCP anyway. Its just the underlying control system that makes things possible. Much the same way as someone driving a car does not need to know a lot about motors.

Some features:

• Free and open for commercial and other use.

• Have two levels. Level I and Level II where level I is designed with CAN as the least common denominator. Can be used for TCP/IP, UDP, RF, Mains, etc etc.

• Has globally unique id’s for each node.

• Has a mechanism to automatically assign a unique id to a newly installed node.

• Can use “decision matrixes” and “registers” as a uniform way to configure nodes.

• Has software and drivers for Windows and Linux. More added all the time.

• Has a common specification language “MDF” that describe a module in a uniform way that can be used by set up software and such.

and more…

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