by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Nov 22, 2016 | Medical Device Testing
Integra Systems, Inc. is approaching the anniversary of a twenty year old company that has completed over ten medical device companies validation and verification projects for networked and co-existence testing for regulatory approval. This is a part of our business...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Nov 17, 2016 | Smart Phone
A true enterprise device that has the look, feel, and interface like a smart phone. The TC51 and TC56 has been introduced by Zebra. Lot of very cool features like the Snapdragon 650 64-bit hexa-core 1.8GHz ARM Cortex A72 We all have a smart phone today. The challenge...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Nov 16, 2016 | Bluetooth
Bluetooth 5.0 Bluetooth and the advances to the technology just keep getting better each year. Late this year 2016 early 2017, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) will formalize 5.0. This revised specification will provide the ability of quadrupling of range...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Nov 8, 2016 | Infusion Pumps
This month the ECRI Institute of Plymouth Meeting, PA www.ecri.org named infusion errors the number one on top 10 technology hazards. “ Although today’s pumps incorporate features that reduce the risks of infusion errors, these safety mechanisms cannot eliminate all...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Nov 2, 2016 | Technology Acquisitions
The following is the recent press release from Extreme Networks and is important for various reasons. Extreme acquired the WLAN business from Zebra. Previously Zebra purchased the mobile computing and WLAN business from Motorola, which had purchased Symbol...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Oct 27, 2016 | Extreme Networks
What a novel idea. Video cameras and WLAN access points usually have the same mounting and placement. This makes it literally plug and play for those that live video monitoring as a part of of a Wave-2 upgrade. The model number is 3916i. They also have introduced a...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Oct 4, 2016 | Bluetooth
The Security behind Bluetooth Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS)(used in Bluetooth) is a method of transmitting radio signals by rapidly switching a carrier among many frequency channels, using a pseudorandom sequence known to both transmitter and receiver. It...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Sep 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
http://www.extremenetworks.com/extreme-networks-agrees-to-acquire-wireless-lan-business-from-zebra-technologies/ It is quite interesting the announcement yesterday of the acquisition of the Zebra WLAN portfolio, previous Motorola, previous Symbol Technologies by...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Sep 6, 2016 | Cardiac Pacing
Over the course of the past few weeks there has been much information discussed about the status of security in cardiac pacing and ICDs…overall this industry. This post should perhaps help provide some solid framework that St. Jude Cardiac Pacemakers/ICDs and...
by dhoglund@integrasystems.org | Aug 17, 2016 | Biometric Authentication
In the era of concern about cybersecurity, our convenience factor and mobility world has provided some unique potential security backdoors to the enterprise. The BYOD era is now allowing consumer grade devices to access the enterprise. These consumer devices were not...
