Taoglas, an M2M antenna provider, has announced it launched the first flexible circuit loop antenna, which the company claims can deliver over 40 percent efficiency in healthcare monitoring devices.
According to the company officials, the FLA.01 antenna is a penta-band cellular antenna that is embedded inside medical devices and can achieve high performance, particularly with customization.
In addition, officials claim the technology can be applied to any frequency including license free bands and is particularly suited to the healthcare market because it can conform to any shape or size - a mechanical advantage for medical devices, which come in different shapes, and sizes.
Recently, Jaotech in Taiwan used a Taoglas antenna inside an incontinent pad for a hospital project in Singapore.
“Taoglas has a long history of working with medical device companies to make sure they achieve high antenna performance and they are compliant for tests such as Specific Absorption Rates and PTCRB,” said Dermot O’Shea, director, Taoglas.
“A device with our antenna on a colostomy bag alerts a central monitoring device informing the nurse that the bag is full and needs to be changed. It saves nurses time and makes sure that patients lying in hospital beds are not feeling uncomfortable,” O’Shea said.
Earlier last year, Taoglas also
announced the launch of the SGP series, the first surface mount GPS antenna products guaranteed to pass final device product certification for reflow solder profile tests, device environmental tests and mechanical testing for machine-to-machine telematics devices.
