Multiplatform router by Libelium

Libelium provides Meshlium, a multitech router allowing use of ZigBee, Bluetooth, WiFi or GPRS. The company invites sensor producers to integrate on their Wasp mote platform: http://www.libelium.com/

ZigBee Health Care Public Application Profile

ZigBee Health Care provides a global standard for interoperable wireless devices enabling secure and reliable monitoring and management of noncritical, low-acuity healthcare services targeted at chronic disease management, obesity and ageing. ZigBee Health Care is designed for use in homes, fitness centers, retirement communities, nursing homes and a variety of medical care facilities. Products using ZigBee Health Care may be wearable, portable or fixed, depending on needs. ZigBee Health Care is designed to meet the requirements of a diverse and global ecosystem of consumers, service providers, care providers, payers, product manufacturers and policymakers. In addition, ZigBee Health Care products can interact with the broader ecosystem of ZigBee wireless technology devices that may be found in typical home and commercial settings.

 ZigBee Health Care

Sensor in a pill

 The WSN Blog reports from Wired Magazine about their countdown of what rocked our world in 2008; Edible Chips are featured #9 in the list.

Proteus, a Redwood City, California, company, has created tiny chips out of silicon grains that, once swallowed, activate in the stomach. The chips send a signal to an external patch that monitors vital parameters such as heart rate, temperature, state of wakefulness or body angle." This technology is truly interesting, and can be applied in a broad range of scenarios. Among central issues to scrutinize further are power supply, bandwidth, stability.

WSN Blog

A group of researchers have established the WSN Blog with the objective to create: "- a blog on Wireless Sensor Networks. We will cover new products, the latest papers, new books, applications of wsn, conferences". The WSN Blog is recommended for those interested, and a RSS feed is made available from the uHealth Blog.

EFMI STC 2008

The European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) Special Topic Conference (STC) is now taking place (9th-11th of September) at the British Computer Society buildings in Covent Garden, London, UK. Threre are about 50 participants coming from South- Africa, Cuba, and various European counties. The conference website is http://www.chirad.info/efmi_stc

Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery

KDubiq is a EU funded Coordination Action (CA) in the FP7 Information Society and Technology program. The project period is from December 2005 to May 2008. More than 70 European companies, research and public sector institutions
are active KDubiq institutions. The main objectives are described as a joint Deliverable - a Blueprint on Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery Systems - including relevant research topics and applications in this new research area. The KDubiq Blueprint gives the state-of-art on relevant research related to application requirements and technologies necessary for designing an information intensive system in ubiquitous environments.
A Summer School for Knowledge Discovery for Ubiquitous Computing with the objective to establish a common ground for the integration of the involved fields and to support the formation of a new community was recently held in Portugal as part of the KDUbiq CA.

Ubiquitous IT Europe conference report

The conference takes place in the old Bundestag buildings in Bonn, and has attracted 150 participants, 66% from Europe, 33% from Asia, and 1% from Australia. Among the audience are business rep's, researchers and politicians. uKorea and Korean companies as Samsung have had presentations. Among research challenges presented are; data processing, context-based adaptation, self-organizing networks and protocols, energy-aware systems and protocols, cross-layer optimization issues, security and privacy and human computer interface.
Peter Murray also have written about this event at http://differance-engine.net/krew/