Wireless Technology

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• Wireless Technology Devices
• In Aging Services
• Peter Kress
• June 21, 2007

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An Aging Services Context

• Multiple wireless strategies can be affordably
  deployed today and are leveraged by a variety of
  handheld, ultra-portable, and kiosk devices to
  enable flexible activity-appropriate caregiver
  and consumer use at the point of care across all
  care settings.
• Empowered Workers
• Empowered Consumers
• Empowered Environments

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Connectivity Landscape

• Negroponte
• Unwiring the wired and wiring the unwired
• Legacy connectivity
• Coax, copper, and proprietary wired wireless
• Emerging
• Fiber, Standard shared wireless
• All IP (over legacy and emerging infrastructures)

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Uses The Empowered Worker

• Supporting Effective Relationships at the point
  of service
  
• Balancing relationships and tasks
• Personalized documentation
• Decision support relationship support
• Goal open shared use of any technology
• Case Study
• Strategic use of device types for supporting
  relationships
  
• kiosk, handheld, laptop, voice device

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Uses The Empowered Consumer

• Supporting rich engagement of consumers with
  their life and context
  
• The legacy consumer environment
• TV and Phone
• Emerging possibilities
• Convergence of tv, phone and computer
• Social Networking
• Online Concierge Services
• Convergence of gaming and therapy
• The Personal Health Record as a shared repository
  of resident story, goals and choices.
  

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Uses Empowered Environments

• Automating routine monitoring and documentation
  to promote safety and quality of life.
  
• The Legacy Environment
• Proprietary single-point monitoring
• Multiple systems
• Nurse call, wandering, fire safety, access and
  identity
  
• Location asset monitoring, energy management
• Voice, radio, paging
• Each system has similar components
• Sensors, distribution (wired/wireless), data
  collection point
  
• Analysis engine to generate alerts,
  communications dashboards
  
• Opportunities Possibilities
• Integrated, Standardized, Interoperable system(s)
  
  
• Automated monitoring provides increased
  opportunity for relationship-centered service

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Wireless Paradigms

• Wide Area Networks (Campus, Mobile, Region)
• Traditional Cell
• WiMax (fixed and mobile)
• Emergent
• Local Area Networks (Campus, Building, Home)
• Wifi
• 8.0211 a/b/g, 8.0211draft-n
• 8.0211i (security), 8.0211e (QOS)
• Mature (other than 802.11draft-n)
• Personal Area Networks (body to room)
• Multiple competing, low power standards
• Some likely to co-exist, but too early to know
  who
  
• Candidates include
• Zigbee, Z-wave, Wireless USB, Bluetooth (
  Wibree)
  
• Emergent

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Connectivity Considerations

• Wireless/Wired boundaries
• Wireless Architectures
• Traditional
• Careful placement and optimization of access
  points, each with wired backhaul.
  
• Access points may be
• Thin (managed by access points and/or
  controllers)
  
• Thick (handling all core wifi functions
  internally)
  
• Arrays
• Multiple radios with directed antennas seek to
  provide stronger coverage of campus environments
  
• Mesh
• Access points with multiple radios can wirelessly
  provision clients and other APs
  
• Often Self-organized
• Future Proofing
• Need to accommodate draft-n and full n
• Balancing manageability (enterprise class) and
  price
  

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Technology Devices

• Traditional PC Laptop
• Phone Communication Devices
• Handhelds
• Kiosks
• Tablets and other Form Factors
• Appliances
• Cameras, gaming, etc.
• Tags

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Scenario Teleputer

• The empowered worker uses a teleputer to converge
  communications, documentation, notification, and
  decision support.

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Scenario Location

• Empowered Environments log activities, generate
  alerts, and supports independence.
  

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Scenario Social Gaming

• Empowered consumers embrace interactive
  multi-media devices that integrate social
  communities, cognitive stimulation and
  entertainment.

(Tribune photo by David Trotman-Wilkins) Feb 9,
2007
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Thanks

• Questions?
• Peter Kress
• ACTS Retirement-Life Communities, Inc.
• kress_at_actslife.org