“One of the areas which are increasingly benefiting from wireless sensor technologies is medical electronics. According to a report by Electronics Industry Market Research and Knowledge Network, enabling wireless sensor solutions can reduce hospitalization costs by promoting portable medical equipment. “This can collectively reduce costs for annual healthcare by $25 billion by 2012,”
Freescale’s offerings in this space include the reference design for an automated home blood pressure monitor. This is an example of how the sensing, data communication and processing capabilities of Freescale’s Flexis QE128 product family can interact to create a handheld medical solution. This low cost personal BP monitor is available at affordable price-points.
The company also offers piezoresistive pressure sensors that are suitable for medical instrumentation applications like portable digital blood pressure meters that can provide key diagnostics for healthcare patients.
