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dhoglund@integrasystems.org

Philadelphia, PA (Montgomery County)

Over thirty years of deep healthcare and medical device experience in the wireless and mobility space.

Interests: Design and development of wireless enabled medical devices, cybersecurity, validation and verification of enterprise networks for security, FDA 510(k) testing for wireless enabled medical devices, Bluetooth LE, biometric authentication, small cells, femtocells

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Wireless Convergence - WLAN, BLE, 4G

View this photo Over the past now twenty years since 802.11b came into the market in 1999 and the Wi-Fi Alliance was formed in 2000, it has been somewhat the “wild-wild west” in terms of integration of wireless in medical... Continue reading

Posted Oct 14, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Nordic Q3 2019 Newsletter

This is the latest Q3 2019 Nordic Newsletter. Integra Systems, Inc. has worked with Nordic for a long time.... early days before BLE for SOC integration for many solutions at the PAN to the IOT. We consider Nordic the gold... Continue reading

Posted Oct 7, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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CBRS - A New Frequency Band - Opportunities for Healthcare

The Innovation Band, CBRS is now approved to deliver LTE/5G services to the healthcare industry. Trademarked as OnGo this band enables secure mobile connectivity with the healthcare enterprise in control of the policies, costs, when and where it is available. Continue reading

Posted Sep 30, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Firewalls & Data Diodes - Best Practices for CyberSecurity

Most are very familiar with a software firewall. They are a check off box for network security. Data diodes were designed on uncompromising technology intended to stop all unauthorized access to nuclear weapon systems. They enforce a physical separation or... Continue reading

Posted Sep 16, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Integra Systems - Regulatory Testing Services

Over the past ten years Integra Systems, Inc. has performed testing services for a wide variety of medical device companies. This testing has had two components; ecosystem network testing for a WLAN enabled medical device and wireless-co-existence testing. We have... Continue reading

Posted Sep 4, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Bluetooth v5.1 – Finally the Right Technology for Location Accuracy

Marketing Versus Reality Since 1999 there have been a variety of technologies and RTLS solutions that have tried to provide location based accuracy that is reliable. The author here has a large amount of experience with many of these, starting... Continue reading

Posted Sep 1, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Bluetooth and Direction Finding Location

Integra Systems, Inc. has been working for several years on many projects using our recommended SOC being Nordic. Nordic is the market leader in Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity, with a growing portfolio of wireless devices, LTE-M and NB-IoT being the... Continue reading

Posted Aug 28, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Medical Wearable Devices - The Market

Medical wearable devices are trying to find their niche for patient monitoring of physiological parameters in and outside of the hospital. The technology advanced cost curve is allowing this. There is a lot of competition and investment it seems in... Continue reading

Posted Aug 26, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Proprietary versus Standards Based Wireless 2019

Over the past twenty years in the medical device community and within the healthcare enterprise there has been this debate about proprietary versus standards based wireless offerings. It started out when the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service was introduced in the... Continue reading

Posted Aug 3, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Medtronic Bluetooth Low Energy Arrival in Cardiac Pacing

This is truly a milestone by Medtronic to provide Bluetooth LE in the Azure pacemaker together with their BlueSync Technology. Both Azsure and BlueSync as well as MyCareLink are trademarked. These are my views of the technology transition and value... Continue reading

Posted Jul 30, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Ascom Digistat(R) Connect Medical Device Integration

Digistat® Connect Medical Device Integration...checking off all the boxes! Some interesting statistics. 19% of Nurses spend less that one fifth of their time on direct patient care. Reference: Hendrick, A, Chow, MP, Sklerczynski, BA, Lu, Z (2008) A 36 Hospital... Continue reading

Posted Jul 22, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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NordicSemi Summer Wireless Quarterly 2019

It is amazing to see the growth of BTLE for all kinds of applications never before thought possible! It never stops. Have a good read with the attached Wireless Quarterly. Integra Systems, Inc., continues drive forward the use of Nordic's... Continue reading

Posted Jul 8, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Integra Systems Partners with Sentry Card on 2nd Generation Solution

The SentryCard Solution : An All-In-One Security Credential KeyFob/OATG OTP Logical Security + iClass or MIFARE Physical Security + RFID Tags/Badges Proximity Tracking + NFC Tags Check In + Employee Identification = The Sentry Card "All-In-One Converged Security" Integra Systems,... Continue reading

Posted Jul 8, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Cellular IoT Growth will be Staggering

LTE-M and NB-IoT's remarkable battery life, costs effective data usage and ubiquitous cell infrastructure will enable this growth. The projected number of cellular connected devices will grow to 1.8 billion by 2023. Please find attached "Choosing the right route to... Continue reading

Posted Jun 21, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Ivenix Achieves FDA 510(k) Approval

W-Fi, Co-Existence testing Continue reading

Posted Jun 11, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Bluetooth LE 5.1 Standard for RTLS

Over the past twenty years Integra Systems, Inc. has been involved in the RTLS (Real Time Location System) space around the timing of the approval of 802.11b in 1999. This has included but has not been limited to ultra wideband,... Continue reading

Posted Jun 5, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Bluetooth RTLS and Wireless Nordic Quarter 2019 Spring Newsletter

Nordic www.nordicsemi.com and Quuppa combine Bluetooth 5.1 Direction Finding SoCs with a Intelligent Locating System platform to support a wide range of Bluetooth RTLS, asset tracking and IPS applications. Quuppas Intelligent Locating System which is trademarked is a proven platform... Continue reading

Posted May 23, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Bluetooth Market Growth 2019 and Further

While Bluetooth in the early days was a communications modality for small peripherals such as computer mice and keyboard, the major cross the chasm event was the introduction of the smart phone. Moore's went into effect and the growth parallels... Continue reading

Posted May 23, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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High Performance Smart Card- First All-In-One Converged Security Credential

Integra Systems is currently working with the 2nd generation or SKU #1 of now the Sentry Card. It is the first "All-In-One" converged security credential. This solution combines physical access, logical access, and passive proximity tracking in a single ISO... Continue reading

Posted Apr 16, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Challenges of the non-IOT connected AED (Automated External Defibrillator)

In the current AED space it seems that there has been no innovation of real time device connectivity for the AED device check up or ongoing and audited provided required maintenance. The engineering design of the entire industry since its... Continue reading

Posted Mar 8, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Smart Medical Devices – The SMART drill® is now registered and listed with the FDA!

It is now commercially available. The Smart Medical Device solution has been several years in development; but now with the release to the commercial space this will dramatically in a positive sense change the landscape of surgical procedures where a... Continue reading

Posted Mar 6, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Integra Systems Predictive Analytics Location Based Solution

Over the past two months we have been working with a variety of organizations to architect a Bluetooth to Wi-Fi to 4G cloud based solution. The goal of this design was to obtain location based information to enable improvements in... Continue reading

Posted Mar 6, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Smart Phones and the Challenges of Healthcare VoIP (Voice over IP)

Integra Systems, Inc., has had the opportunity to be associated with the WLAN space before Wi-Fi actually came to the market. That being said, we have learned a lot about mobile devices and the proper enterprise design by actual field... Continue reading

Posted Feb 27, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Evaluation of LANforge from Candela Technologies

In the past month, Integra Systems has had the opportunity to get a “hands on” with LANforge from Candela Technologies. They have graciously sent us equipment to evaluate in our lab and provided a technical deep dive. This is a... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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Integra Systems Deployment of IOT in the Enterprise

Integra Systems, Inc., is working with www.reelyactive.com to deploy a multi-layered IOT solution to gather location data for the use in predictive analytics modeling. We have engineered a unique networking design using Bluetooth Low Energy to Wi-Fi. (This is the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 14, 2019 at The Healthcare and Enterprise Wireless Experience

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