Amba Health and Care, a leader in advanced senior care technology, is proud to announce its partnership with PacSana, a cutting-edge health and safety wearable for older adults. This strategic partnership aims to elevate care standards for residents and drive growth by enhancing care efficiencies for senior healthcare providers. 

Amba Health and Care’s leading-edge care delivery platform leverages AI automation to provide real-time insights into sleep and activity, mobility and wandering, gait, and other wellness indicators. This enables precise, proactive care notifications, allowing senior living operators to deliver timely resident checks and care interventions. By optimizing staff resources and reducing unnecessary tasks, Amba’s solution not only enhances care quality but also significantly lowers operational costs.

“We strive to prevent adverse health events, particularly falls and hospitalizations,” says Ernie Ianace, President of Amba Health and Care. “PacSana’s advanced wearable technology offers precise gait analysis, detecting subtle decreases in gait speed that signal an increased risk of falls and potential cognitive decline. Through advanced AI, Amba Health identifies and analyzes these critical indicators to enhance resident safety and well-being.”

PacSana, The Smart Solution for Safe Aging, elevates care with a custom-designed smart bracelet paired with innovative sensor technology. This bracelet collects detailed data and insights on daily activities, exercise, gait, falls, and more, building a precise understanding of care needs both within and outside the home. With actionable insights, PacSana guides caregivers on the right care, when it’s required, and at the most appropriate location. It’s simple enough for ease of use, yet powerful enough to create an immediate impact.

“Sharing a common mission for improving care across the aging continuum, we are very excited to partner with Amba,” says Feargal Duignan, CEO of PacSana. “This partnership will extend our ability to serve even more seniors and their caregivers across the United States.” 

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The new ioXt platform will deliver a suite of robust tools and services designed to empower manufacturers in securely developing, deploying, and managing smart devices. Key features of the ioXt Secure IoT PaaS include:

– Device Integration: Simplified processes to seamlessly integrate various sensors, actuators, and connectivity modules into your products.

– Smart Device Management: Centralized control over device firmware updates, configuration settings, and operational status.

– Scalable Architecture: Support for a vast number of devices and users, ensuring that your smart products can grow alongside your business.

This strategic investment in Secure IoT PaaS underscores ioXt’s commitment to driving innovation and security in the IoT landscape. By offering a platform that enhances the security and management of smart devices, ioXt aims to set new industry standards and provide manufacturers with the tools they need to succeed in a connected world.

ioXt remains the gold standard for IoT security, continuing to lead the industry with its trusted certification and now, with its cutting-edge Secure IoT PaaS.

For more information, please visit www.ioxtalliance.org.

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Frost & Sullivan has named Evidation the 2024 Honoree of the Best Practices Customer Value Leadership Award for Real-World Evidence Solutions in Healthcare. Frost & Sullivan recognizes Evidation’s transformative approach in harnessing consented real world data directly from individuals to deeply characterize and understand health and disease.

Evidation’s research solutions allow healthcare and life sciences organizations to connect directly with individuals to better measure, understand, and improve health. Evidation uses data from wearables, surveys, and electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) to get a more complete picture of symptoms, disease progression, treatment impact, quality of life, and social determinants of health. Through its decentralized approach and ability to engage millions over the long term, Evidation is reimagining health research to make it faster, more precise, more inclusive, and more transparent.

“Evidation’s dedication to patient-centricity transcends mere rhetoric, and focuses on respect for problems, people, and customers. The emphasis on ‘real’ RWD sets it apart, providing a holistic understanding beyond conventional EHR and claims data,” said Ojaswi Rana, Best Practices Research Analyst. “This approach broadens the focus from patients to at-risk and healthy individuals, contributing to a more nuanced perspective on health and disease.”

The Evidation app is used by a community of almost 5 million people in 97% of U.S. ZIP codes, who are rewarded for engaging in healthy activities and contributing to health research; over one million individuals have participated in research on Evidation. Members earn points, which can be redeemed for cash or charitable donations, by tracking activities like walking, sleeping, and logging food and for participating in research surveys and studies. Evidation prioritizes transparency and consent by always obtaining user permission for data use and sharing. Participants can opt-in to sharing additional health data with researchers, including pharmacy claims and electronic health record data.

“Evidation’s large, highly characterized, and responsive population ensures rapid access to diverse data for bespoke data collection. Its direct, two-way connection with members also enables customers to quickly re-contact patients for follow-up questions and contextualize data sets,” said Unmesh Lal, Research Director at Frost & Sullivan. “The company’s technology platform is also a differentiator, due to its success in driving high engagement and protocol adherence rates at scale over long periods.”

Evidation’s solutions include:

• Recruitment: Recruit directly from Evidation’s engaged, diverse community to rapidly enroll individuals into research.
• Research: Deploy Evidation’s retrospective and prospective research solutions to measure health in everyday life.
• Platform: License Evidation’s platform to conduct long term, digitally enabled, direct-to-participant research programs.

The Best Practices Customer Value Leadership Awards is part of Frost & Sullivan’s ongoing effort to identify visionary companies at the forefront of innovation and growth. For more information on Evidation’s health research solutions, please visit evidation.com.

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Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI), today announced that the Masimo W1^® Sport advanced health tracking wearable is gaining a powerful new feature: scientifically based sleep analysis with Sleep Halo. Sleep Halo offers overnight sleep data tracking with an unmatched 70,000+ daily measurements of second-by-second continuous health data.

Sleep Halo uses continuous Masimo pulse oximetry and machine learning to provide meaningful insights into the quality of an individual’s sleep, including overall timing, duration of sleep stages, periods of rest and wakefulness, episodes of desaturation, and more. The nightly analysis, including a Sleep Halo score – an algorithmic calculation representing your overall sleep quality – is visualized on the companion Masimo Health smartphone app. The Sleep Halo score and sleep analysis will be featured in all future Masimo wearables, including the upcoming Masimo Freedom Watch and Band.

Joe Kiani, Founder and CEO of Masimo, said, “We’re truly excited to launch Sleep Halo for Masimo W1 Sport. For 35 years, Masimo has been dedicated to using breakthrough engineering to help improve lives. Masimo W1 is unique among wearables in being able to continuously measure the wearer’s SpO₂ and PR – and that gives us an opportunity to provide a truly informed, robust analysis of how one sleeps. As always, we are committed to providing scientifically backed measurements, which are based on our unmatched, accurate technology, not ‘tarot card logic’ novelties. We benchmarked Sleep Halo with EEG to confirm its stages of sleep are comparable to sleep analysis. We hope that with this new scientifically based Sleep Halo, our customers can improve their sleep hygiene, which has been shown to improve life.”

Today’s consumers are limited to choosing from among a variety of consumer wearables, which use intermittent and often inaccurate data, heavily reliant on movement – which cannot provide reliable or actionable sleep metrics. Masimo W1 – which has been shown to be significantly more accurate than the leading consumer wearable¹ – is designed to provide sophisticated and insightful sleep analysis using technology based on Masimo SET^®, the primary pulse oximetry technology at all top 10 U.S. hospitals as ranked in the 2024 Newsweek World’s Best Hospitals listing.² Rigorously tested against reference laboratory measurements, including EEG data, Sleep Halo makes it possible to bring reliable, insightful sleep analysis to everyday people around the world, on a nightly basis, via a lightweight, comfortable wearable, from the convenience of their own home.

Existing Masimo W1 Sport owners will soon be able to update their watch firmware and Masimo Health app to begin their sleep tracking journey. Masimo W1 is available for purchase at www.Masimo.com.

Also available is Masimo W1 Medical, the first and only FDA-cleared watch to provide continuous, real-time SpO₂ and PR with an indicator when measurements are outside of their normal ranges.

Masimo W1 Sport and Sleep Halo are for general health and wellness purposes.

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Lantronix Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRX), a global leader in compute and connectivity IoT solutions, today announced the launch of its new next-generation desktop or 1U rack mountable EDS5000 series of device servers, supporting 8, 16 or 32 serial managed devices over Ethernet (10/100/100BASE-T or 100/1000 SRP) for easy remote access and management of any serial-based equipment, such as medical devices, POS terminals or security equipment.

“With continued adoption of industrial automation and increasing demand for remote environments, Lantronix is leading the charge by offering a new family of world-class device servers that enable its customers to maintain and expand serial connections over Ethernet for better management and visibility,” said Mathi Gurusamy, chief strategy officer for Lantronix. “With this new family of device servers, Lantronix is poised to meet growing market demand for secure, remote device server solutions.”

The global serial device server market size will reach $401.47 million by 2028, up from $270.59 million in 2022, according to Maia Research Analysis’ Global Serial Device Server Market Report published in 2022.

Key features of the EDS5000 series servers include:

• IPv6 technology for faster serial speeds than previous EDS versions (921K vs 230K Baud).
• RS232, RS422 and RS485 support, which allows for multiple serial protocols to be supported in a single solution, eliminating the need for separate devices for each protocol.
• Redundant power inputs, one AC input and one DC allowing for installation in a variety of environments based on power availability. AC and DC can also be used concurrently for redundancy.
• Ethernet connection via 10/100/1000 copper RJ45 or 100/1000 SFP to support a variety of LAN/WAN options in a single solution. It can connect via copper Ethernet when it’s less than 100 meters in distance, and the Fiber SFP port can be used for distances beyond 100 meters or for additional security.
• Wide operating temperature of -10°C to +60°C to accommodate most installation environments.
• Comprehensive Device Security Framework, delivering enterprise-level security with an unprecedented level of intelligence and safety with SSL/TLS, AES and SSH built in.
• Easy set-up and configuration using Lantronix’s Windows-based Provisioning Manager, which can be used locally or remotely with the Lantronix Percepxion device management platform, providing single-pane-of-glass cloud management.

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Introduction

The business landscape has been transformed over the past few years with the help of numerous technologies, and one such marvel is augmented intelligence, which has emerged as a potent ally for human users to enhance our business capabilities. This technology represents a synergy between human expertise and machine learning (ML), redefining how human intelligence approaches problem-solving, decision-making, and innovation. However, amidst all the insights, it is essential to understand that augmented intelligence is not a solution that can be operated independently. Still, it requires human oversight and intervention to help carefully orchestrate ethical considerations to ensure their alignment with human values and ideals.

In today’s AI Tech Park article, we will explore the boundless potential of augmented intelligence in reshaping the future of business.

A Symbiotic Relationship with Organizations and Augmented Intelligence

Augmented intelligence focuses on enhancing human capabilities by combining creativity and design-making skills with artificial intelligence’s (AI) ability to process large sets of data in a few seconds. For instance, in the healthcare sector, AI filters through millions of medical records to assist doctors in diagnosing and treating patients more effectively, therefore not replacing doctors’ expertise but augmenting it. Further, AI automates repetitive tasks, allowing human users to tackle more complex and creative work, especially with chatbots as they handle routine inquiries in customer service, allowing human agents to resolve more minute issues.

Augment intelligence uses personalized experience at a scale that informs users about current market trends, enhancing customer satisfaction, further helping to stimulate human creativity, and exploring new patterns and ideas. Numerous tools, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google Gemini, can create high-quality written content, which will assist writers and marketers in inefficiently generating social media posts and creative writing pieces. In terms of designing, genAI tools such as DALL-E and MidJourney work as guides that enable designers to generate unique images and artwork based on a few textual descriptions.

Real-World Business Scope of Augmented Intelligence

Till now, we have understood that augmented intelligence is the next thing that companies should implement in their businesses to kickstart a creative yet partially autonomous journey. Therefore, we bring you some key areas where augmented intelligence can have a significant impact:

1. Retail and Manufacturer Industry

The retail industry has witnessed a change in customer tastes post-COVID-19 pandemic, disrupting their logistical and supply chain structures. Therefore, retailers utilize augmented intelligence to analyze customer preference, purchase history, and browsing human behavior to deliver personalized product recommendations that not only enhance their shopping experience but also drive more sales and foster customer loyalty. On the other hand, the manufacturing industry has faced challenges such as supply chain disruptions, a massive drop in worker supply, and raw material shortages due to the pandemic and recession. Therefore, to curb these issues, B2B manufacturers rely on augmented intelligence that aids in data collection from sensors and IoT devices, which eventually helps them understand the production capacities of the production lines, the shipping times, warehousing space availability, and scheduling time for the workers.

2. Healthcare Industry

With the rise in patient personalization and medical and drug experiments, healthcare providers are leveraging augmented intelligence to analyze the largest amount of medical data and predict and diagnose diseases more accurately and efficiently. With the help of augmented analytics, hospitals and medical institutes can optimize their business operations by researching key metrics such as the duration of stay and the bed occupancy rate.

Bottom Line

The human-AI collaboration offers potential by leveraging the strengths of both human creativity and augmented intelligence to achieve shared objectives of better business operations. However, the implementation of this technology doesn’t imply the replacement of human intelligence, but this collaborative initiative will enhance decision-making, boost efficiency, and transform business interaction to enhance organization scalability and personalization.

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Nihon Kohden, renowned for its history of excellence in providing innovative high quality, reliable medical technology that improves the way healthcare is practiced, is partnering with Medasense to introduce its nociception monitor to the Japanese market. This cutting-edge device, with its state-of-the-art AI powered NOL – Nociception Level Index®, provides real-time, objective pain monitoring, enabling the personalization and optimization of pain treatment. It will be accessible to hospitals and clinics throughout Japan through Nihon Kohden’s extensive distribution channels pending regulatory approval.

Medasense’s CEO & Founder, Galit Zuckerman, expressed enthusiasm about the collaboration: “We are honored to partner with Nihon Kohden, a company with a long history of excellence, that shares our vision of improving patient care through innovative solutions. Our mission is to help all patients suffer less from pain and the adverse effects of pain medication. Nihon Kohden’s established clinical, technological leadership and expertise in the Japanese market make them the perfect partner to distribute our nociception monitor.”

NOL monitoring provides an AI powered, clinically validated index to objectively quantify the physiological response to pain (nociception) supporting clinicians in delivering personalized anesthesia tailored to patient requirements. With over 40 peer reviewed publications, clinical studies have demonstrated that NOL-guided analgesia resulted in intraoperative opioid sparing, and improved post operative pain scores and patient recovery.^1,2

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Revolutionizing AIoT with Wi-Fi HaLow Mesh 
Paul Lai, CEO of AsiaRF, states, “The launch of our revolutionary Wi-Fi HaLow Mesh technology sets a new standard for AIoT connectivity. Our firm commitment to enhancing wireless infrastructure paves the way for innovative global partnerships.”

Strategic Collaboration and Standards Development 
As proactive participants in the Wi-Fi Alliance and Wireless Broadband Alliance, AsiaRF is instrumental in shaping the new standards for Wi-Fi HaLow Mesh architecture. Future publications, including a white paper featuring case studies on the practical applications of HaLow Mesh technology in U.S. collaborations, will further promote this innovative architecture.

Key Features of Wi-Fi HaLow Mesh Technology:

• Extended Coverage and Stability: Utilizes advanced frequency and modulation techniques to maintain reliable connections in challenging environments.
• Robust Mesh Network: Features automatic routing and backup paths, ensuring network resilience and seamless connectivity.
• Scalability for Major IoT Projects: Supports a broad spectrum of AIoT applications, fulfilling the demands of smart city infrastructure.

Compliance and Certification
AsiaRF’s Wi-Fi HaLow Mesh Gateway has received Wi-Fi HaLow certification from the Wi-Fi Alliance, affirming its industry compliance and reliability. Powering these devices, Morse Micro’s Wi-Fi HaLow chips are at the core of AsiaRF’s Wi-Fi HaLow module MM610X-001, known for their ultra-low power consumption and long-range capabilities, ideal for IoT applications.

The Wi-Fi HaLow module MM610X-001 complies with international regulations, including the FCC, IC, CE, and Japan’s TELEC, ensuring it meets stringent global safety standards. AsiaRF’s full range of Wi-Fi HaLow Mesh gateways, which includes the Wi-Fi HaLow Mesh indoor gateway (ARFHL-AP), Wi-Fi HaLow Mesh portable gateway (ARFHL-UM), and Wi-Fi HaLow Mesh outdoor model (ARFHL-OD), also adheres to these standards, ensuring robust and secure wireless networking for diverse AIoT environments.

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InnoPhase IoT, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company specializing in ultra-low power Wi-Fi IoT solutions, announces the availability of its Talaria TWO Matter v1.2 certified Wi-Fi solution. It is based on a single-chip SoC compared with the multiple-chip approach taken by many vendors. The Matter protocol addresses the need for vendor-independent device compatibility, easy setup, and operation. This allows the Talaria TWO Matter 1.2 solution to enable device interoperability across a variety of ecosystems, including Apple, Google, Amazon Alexa, Samsung, etc., providing a wider selection of home automation devices for smart home users.

“By 2030, ABI Research expects more than 1.5 billion Matter-compliant smart home devices to ship annually, many of which will be battery powered,” says Andrew Zignani, Senior Research Director, ABI Research. “InnoPhase IoT’s Talaria TWO solution combines its ultra-low power Wi-Fi with support for Matter 1.2 specification to deliver enhanced interoperability and extended battery life to key smart home IoT applications such as Wi-Fi enabled smart door locks, lighting, thermostats, and sensor solutions. This will be critical in providing an enhanced customer experience, up to 4x improvement in battery life, seamless provisioning via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and high levels of security.”

The Matter stack runs on the Talaria TWO SoC for both standalone and microcontroller (MCU) host configurations. The standalone operation provides the most power, size, and cost-efficient option. Flexibility is provided by allowing customers to use an external MCU host by offloading Matter protocol processing onto the Talaria TWO SoC so that developers can use MCU processing and memory resources specifically for custom applications. It also allows for the selection of a Cortex-M0 to Cortex-M85-based processor that is appropriate for the application. With a Matter over lowest-power Wi-Fi approach, rather than Matter over Thread, the Talaria TWO solution delivers a direct connection to the cloud/internet, eliminating the need and cost of a bridge border router.

The Talaria TWO Matter full-stack software development kit, SDK 3.1, is based on FreeRTOS and provides edge-to-cloud software for custom IoT applications, a GCC toolchain, and an eclipse-based IDE for software development. It also includes Matter 1.2 reference applications profiles for smart lighting and door locks with support for Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft Azure platforms. Additional profiles will be released in Q3 2024. The Talaria TWO Matter SDK3.1 is supported on the standalone Talaria TWO Evaluation Kit, as well as reference designs combining Talaria TWO modules with the Nuvoton M251 and Nuvoton M2354 MCU series hosts. The solution is scalable to other MCUs through a HAPI interface between Talaria TWO and MCU hosts.

“Nuvoton is excited to be working with InnoPhase IoT to deliver Matter 1.2 solutions,” said Chad Wu, Nuvoton Vice President of the Microcontroller Business Group. “Combining Nuvoton’s highly secure NuMicro® microcontrollers and microprocessors with InnoPhase IoT’s ultra-low power Talaria TWO Wi-Fi/BLE modules in a Matter reference design notably speeds up market entry for smart home device customers, enabling a rapid launch advantage.”

“Achieving Matter 1.2 certification is a game changer in secure device connectivity, ensuring that smart-home devices work together seamlessly,” said Wiren Perera, InnoPhase IoT President and COO. “Our Talaria TWO delivers Wi-Fi at ultra-low power levels synonymous with shorter range technologies, unleashing truly untethered secure IoT devices. Next, it was important to provide manufacturer and ecosystem-independent interoperability for consumers. A scalable Matter 1.2 certified capability addresses this challenge for a wide range of smart-home applications from appliances through entertainment and comfort to utilities and services,” Perera added.

The Talaria TWO Matter v1.2 solution is currently available. Customers can purchase the evaluation kit from InnoPhase IoT and its distributors and the M251+T2 and M2354+T2 reference designs from Nuvoton distributors. Matter SDK3.1 is available from the InnoPhase IoT website customer portal. Contact sales@innoPhaseiot.com for demonstrations.

InnoPhase IoT will showcase its Matter 1.2 certified solutions at Sensors Converge in Santa Clara, CA, June 24-26 at booth #917. Deepal Mehta, Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development, will present on the Cloud-To-Edge Architecture panel on Tuesday, June 25 at 3:20 p.m.

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Soracom, Inc., a global provider of advanced Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, today announced that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners that provides software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS.

Soracom’s fully virtualized, cost-effective global platform provides full MVNO capability for cellular along with a powerful connectivity management platform, zero-touch provisioning services, secure networking capabilities, “single pane of glass” control for additional connectivity options including LPWA, Wi-Fi, and satellite, and advanced integrations with AWS.

“Soracom’s deep integration with AWS services and functions gives our customers an unfair advantage as they build and scale IoT deployments worldwide,” said Richard Halliday,Head of Sales and Partnerships, Americas at Soracom. “As an AWS IoT Competency Partner since 2016, Soracom already connects millions of IoT devices to AWS. We’re thrilled to join AWS ISV Accelerate and continue working with AWS to drive IoT growth around the world.”

Whether launching new products and services or hardening million-scale deployments, Soracom customers can count on leading-edge technical capabilities and expert solutions support to help anticipate challenges in the field and reduce the cost of operating IoT networks at scale.

Soracom smart cellular connectivity for IoT has been available through the AWS Marketplace since 2019, and Soracom also participates in AWS Marketplace Private Offers. Joining the ISV Accelerate program ensures that Soracom will be able to offer an even wider array of commercial options designed to support long-term success for customers ready to take advantage of Soracom and AWS for their IoT deployments.

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