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Archive for November 14th, 2005

Update on the InnerWireless RFID Announcement

Well there is definitely some secret sauce in the InnerWireless RFID system, just not the secret
sauce that I expected in my earlier post. InnerWireless has expanded
their offerings beyond RF infrastructure to
include an RFID solution that is completely separate from their
distributed antenna system. In a follow up to my previous post, I talked with
Alastair Westgarth, Senior […]


Profile: Carolinas HealthCare Adopts WLAN-based Technologies

Carolinas Medical Center, flagship hospital for Carolinas HealthCare, is widely embracing wireless local area networking to improve productivity and patient safety.

To support the new applications, CHS has deployed more than 500
wireless access points for 802.11b and 802.11g networks since 2004. Two
hundred access points went into the 11-story, 1.5 million-square-foot
main hospital, and additional nodes should go […]


Implantable Device Antenna

Have you ever wondered what type of antenna vendors put on an implantable device? The image on the right is an implantable
antenna designed by Cynthia Furse of
the University of Utah. Pretty cool.
UPDATE: Dr Furse was kind enough to reply to my inquiry to say that the
image represents the current density on a spiral microstrip […]


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