The healthcare and personal fitness industry has grown substantially. Leaps in the industry have been provided by much of the modern-day technology such as smartphones and other wireless technologies.
Healthcare and personal fitness have transitioned from a doctor's office or gym environment to a more mobile "lifestyle" approach. Manufacturers have developed numerous sensor products such as pedometers, heart rate monitors, body fat calipers and digital weigh scales that are designed to provide users and doctors with health data.
Other manufacturers have built an industry around creating applications operating on PCs or smartphones that make use of the sensor data and provide both doctors and users with fast and factual feedback.
Getting the data from the sensor across public and private networks securely has fueled enormous growth for both the Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® wireless standards. Wi-Fi has allowed home networks to act as gateways between weigh scales, body fat sensors and personal blood/glucose sensors to ensure timely delivery of data to medical facilities while Bluetooth has allowed smartphones to give users real-time feedback from heart rate monitors and pedometers.
Bluetooth
Bluetooth offers a number of advantages in the personal fitness and healthcare market space. Offering excellent robustness in high-data-traffic areas through the use of frequency hopping, its strong security algorithms and low power consumption also make it a very low-cost wireless solution that is available in almost 100% of today's mobile phones. We offer Bluetooth solutions for both Class 1 and Class 2 operation. Bluetooth Class 1 offers long-range operation with distances of over 100m typically attainable, while Bluetooth Class 2 offers typical ranges of 20–30m.
Wi-Fi
802.11 Wi-Fi infrastructures are now typical in most home environments, which means that medical sensors can be placed almost anywhere in a house. A key advantage of the Wi-Fi infrastructure is that the mobile phone paired with the sensor does not need to be present to allow communication between the caregiver and the device.
Understanding ADC Performance in Wi-Fi MCUs
PIC32MZ W1/WFI32 comes with a power packed 12 bit ADC that can reduce design complexities in your connected designs. This video showcases the performance characteristics of this ADC in comparison with similar devices in the market.
Understanding ADC Performance in Wi-Fi MCUs
PIC32MZ W1/WFI32 comes with a power packed 12 bit ADC that can reduce design complexities in your connected designs. This video showcases the performance characteristics of this ADC in comparison with similar devices in the market.
Curiosity Board Garage Door Demo
WFI32 Garage Door Demo
Garage Door Demo with voice commands, based on WFI32 Out of the Box Curiosity demo developed with MPLAB X IDE and MPLAB Harmony v3.
WFI32 Wi-Fi® MCU Module Development Tools Introduction
WFI32 Wi-Fi® MCU Module Development Tools Introduction
Along with the widely adaption of IoT technology in industrial areas, like logistics, heath care, utility, and high-end manufacturing, IoT designers are paying more attention at improving the reliability, security, and functionality of the IoT system design, because reliable and robust IoT data is critical to improve the efficiency of operations, quality of services, and business income.
Microchip’s highly integrated WFI32 Wi-Fi MCU module is safe, powerful, and reliable IoT platform, which can be used to design various industrial IoT systems with high-performance MCU capabilities and robust and safe IoT connection.
WFI32 Out of the Box Curiosity Board Demo
WFI32 Out of the Box Curiosity Board Demo
Unbox the new WFI32E01 Curiosity evaluation board to see how to connect to the cloud securely. Then interact with features on the board with Amazon Alexa.
Introducing Microchip's WFI32 Wi-Fi 32-bit MCU Module
Introducing Microchip's WFI32 Wi-Fi 32-bit MCU Module
This video introduces Microchip’s first Trust&GO Wi-Fi® 32-bit MCU, which has market leading MCU functionalities and is pre-provisioned for cloud platforms.
