Newly Available To Medical Device Manufacturers - Bluetooth Testing...( Integration ...)

Integration Made Simple

(PRWEB) December 17, 2008 -- Facilitating the entry of Bluetooth into the medical device industry is the modern protocol analyzer, now updated to effortlessly examine not only the wireless interface between devices, such as a glucose monitor and a telephone modem, but also the interface between the device CPU and the Bluetooth chip inside the device. The advanced capabilities of today's protocol analyzer software help to overcome the fear associated with "cutting the umbilical cord" to traditionally hard-wired elements.

"By embedding Bluetooth technology into your product you gain access to an expanded market, one that I would argue is a very important market because of the exploding geriatric population and the increasing number of people with chronic diseases," says Pierre Landau, Ph.D., president of Tucson, Arizona-based Polymap Wireless.

There is no denying that Bluetooth reins as the technology of choice for connecting wireless devices. The need for wireless data recording and transmission reaches an almost "acute" level within the medical device industry. Until now, hesitation to jump on the bandwagon has usually stemmed from the well-founded concern that the is a complex technology with numerous protocols, profiles (use cases), and the automatic challenges that come from any wireless technology, but especially one where the connection and disconnection of devices is almost always ad hoc. So, too, is it an ever-evolving standard, with not only a rapidly growing number of profiles, but also constant

With over 40,000 units in use worldwide, spanning a wide variety of communication technologies, Charlottesville, Virginia-based Frontline Test Equipment, Inc. is a leading provider of PC-based