Digital Health

Digital Health IoT Connectivity Solutions

Vital signs, including body temperature, heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, blood glucose, and oxygen saturation etc., are measurements that indicate the state of a person’s essential body functions. Continuous vital sign monitoring is crucial for early detection and timely responses in healthcare settings such as hospitals and homes, as well as for worker safety in enterprise environments. Currently, over 90% of smart medical devices and wearables for vital sign monitoring use Bluetooth for communication. However, traditional smartphone-based Bluetooth communication often falls short in hospital and enterprise environments, where there’s a critical need for long-range, reliable, secure, and multi-device connectivity. This limitation can obstruct the continuous vital sign monitoring and critical care that patients and workers require.

With Cassia Networks’ patented Bluetooth IoT technology, we now offer an easy-to-use solution to ensure continuous vital sign monitoring in hospitals, homes, and enterprises that is reliable, secure, cost effective, long range, and capable of supporting multiple device connections simultaneously.

Cassia’s industry-leading long-range Bluetooth gateways support simultaneous connections with multiple devices and ensure seamless connectivity. Moreover, with Cassia’s patented Bluetooth Roaming technology, patients can move freely and securely within coverage areas without fear of losing connection. Cassia also simplifies the management and deployment of your Bluetooth network with its IoT Access Controller – a software platform that offers end-to-end visibility, security, and manageability of all your gateways and devices. As a result, Cassia’s Bluetooth IoT products and solutions offer an easy way to connect and manage millions of smart medical and wearable devices, eliminating the need for manual intervention.

With continuous vital sign monitoring, medical staff can receive accurate and real-time data from all their patients in hospitals and homes, enabling them to provide the highest quality of care. Similarly, worker safety solution providers can offer superior worker safety services to their enterprise customers, services that were previously unattainable.

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Typical Digital Health Scenarios

Cassia Networks’ patented Bluetooth IoT technology enables a seamless and comprehensive solution for continuous vital sign monitoring across various scenarios: hospitals and clinics, in-home care/telehealth, and workers safety at enterprise and industrial facilities.

Hospital and Clinics Scenario

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Cassia Networks’ Bluetooth gateways and IoT Access Controller serve a vital role in facilitating continuous vital sign monitoring, thereby significantly enhancing patient care within hospitals and clinics.

A network of Cassia gateways such as E1000 and M2000, orchestrated by the Cassia IoT Access Controller, ensures seamless and uninterrupted Bluetooth connectivity throughout these healthcare facilities. These gateways, when integrated with smart medical devices and wearables, enable the continuous tracking of vital signs, allowing for real-time data collection and transmission to centralized healthcare application software platforms and dashboards. Leveraging Cassia’s patented Bluetooth Roaming technology, patients can move around freely and securely within the coverage areas without the risk of losing connection. This innovative technology promotes early detection of health deterioration, minimizes the necessity for manual checks, and facilitates prompt medical interventions. Consequently, it improves  patient care, reduces hospital costs, and lightens the workload of medical staff.

An excellent illustration of Cassia’s technology and solution deployment is its use for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in hospitals, as depicted in the image below. Over the past two years, hundreds of hospitals have utilized Cassia’s Bluetooth gateways and IoT Access Controller to gather and transmit real-time data from patients fitted with wearable blood glucose monitors. This enables healthcare staff to remotely and continuously monitor a patient’s blood glucose levels throughout the day.

Thanks to Cassia’s patented Bluetooth Roaming technology, patients can move freely within the hospital’s Bluetooth coverage area without losing access to real-time data. Data collection and transmission are always secure and require no manual intervention during roaming handoff. This solution significantly enhances a doctor’s ability to make necessary adjustments to a patient’s treatment, leading to more accurate and timely diagnosis. Moreover, this innovative healthcare solution eliminates the need for patients to manually collect blood samples through traditional finger-stick methods, offering greater convenience and ease of use. Cassia won Medtronics’ Best Innovation Supplier Award of 2021 because of this technology and solution.

Cassia is currently collaborating closely with our partners to deliver various digital health IoT applications, including continuous monitoring of vital signs such as blood glucose, ECG, heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, and more, for use in hospitals and clinics.

The landscape of healthcare is evolving, and by collaborating with medical leaders, Cassia is committed to providing scalable, secure, and flexible IoT solutions our partners and customers need to successfully deploy their digital health IoT applications in hospitals and clinics.

In-Home/Telehealth Scenario

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Many home health monitoring and telehealth solutions available today necessitate that patients and seniors use their smartphones to connect to medical devices.

They must manually collect data for monitoring vital signs such as blood pressure, glucose levels, and heart rate at home. However, due to the limited Bluetooth communication range of smartphones as well as difficulties many patients and seniors face have when using smartphones and health apps, this approach is often unreliable. Moreover, it is costly, does not happen in real-time, and is prone to errors.

Cassia Networks’ long-range Bluetooth gateways, such as the M2000 and E1000, address all these issues. Our gateways provide extensive Bluetooth coverage suitable for a typical house and can connect to multiple smart medical devices and wearables round the clock. These connections are bidirectional, secure, reliable, and real-time.

In particular, our M2000 gateway is ideally suited for in-home telehealth applications due to its compact size, embedded cellular backhaul, and cost-effectiveness. It is plug-and-play, easy to use, and easy to manage.

With continuous vital sign data collected and transmitted by Cassia gateways, medical staff can monitor the health conditions of patients and seniors at home remotely in real time. This system allows for immediate detection of health issues, enabling caregivers to respond promptly. It facilitates proactive and personalized care for patients and the elderly at home, greatly improving patient care and reducing costs. By promoting safety, independence, and timely medical intervention, Cassia Networks’ solutions enhance the quality of life for patients and the elderly.

Worker Safety Scenario

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As global temperatures rise, ensuring the safety of your employees from heat-related injuries is becoming increasingly critical. This is one of many reasons why numerous enterprises are adopting continuous vital sign monitoring and end-to-end detection to predict and prevent serious health conditions among their workforce, particularly those in sectors such as industrial, construction, warehouse, and transportation.

Over the past years, Cassia has collaborated closely with leading worker safety solution and service providers to deliver reliable, secure, scalable, and seamless continuous vital sign monitoring and personnel locationing for worker safety applications in enterprise settings. Key vital signs monitored include body temperature, heart rate, and exertion levels. Additional features such as alarm functions and fall detection are often enabled to further enhance worker safety.

Cassia’s enterprise-grade Bluetooth gateways, E1000, X2000, and ATX2000, are widely employed to collect real-time vital sign and location data from wearables worn by employees in challenging and often hazardous enterprise environments. This data is relayed to the monitoring center in real-time, enabling quick actions to predict and prevent serious health conditions and injuries among employees.

Cassia gateways support long-range Bluetooth communication, one-to-many connectivity, enterprise-grade cybersecurity and reliability, Bluetooth locationing, and robust enclosures. All these features are crucial for enabling worker safety applications in enterprise environments.

This technology and solution significantly improve worker safety and reduce injury-related costs in an enterprise setting.

IMMEDIATE BENEFITS FOR PATIENTS AND MEDICAL PERSONNEL

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TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL ADVANTAGES

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Long-Range Bluetooth Communication

Multiple Device Monitoring

Bluetooth Locationing

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CASE STUDIES AND APPLICATION ARTICLES

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Reducing the Risk of COVID-19 Transmission Using Philips’ Biosensor BX100 and Cassia’s Bluetooth Gateways

Learn how Philips partnered with Cassia Networks to help fight the spread of COVID-19 in a major Dutch hospital using Philips’ Biosensor BX100 and Cassia’s Bluetooth gateways and IoT Access Controller.
Read the full case study HERE.
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Bringing Telemetry Closer to Caregivers using PMD’s RespiraSense and Cassia’s Bluetooth gateways

Learn how PMD partnered with Cassia Networks to enable continuous respiratory rate monitoring for hospitals and clinics in Ireland using PMD’s RespiraSense, Cassia’s Bluetooth gateways and IoT Access Controller. Read the full case study HERE.

Cassia Networks wins Medtronic’s 2021 Best Innovation Supplier Award

On April 12, 2021, Medtronic, the world’s leading medical technology company, held the Medtronic Technology Center (MTC) 2021 Supplier Conference in China. Cassia Networks, a leading provider of Bluetooth IoT products and solutions was awarded the MTC Best Innovation Supplier Award of 2021. This award is intended to recognize the contribution of Cassia’s innovative Bluetooth IoT technology and products in conjunction with Medtronic’s real-time continuous blood glucose monitoring solution for medical facilities. Medtronic is currently deploying Cassia’s S2000 Bluetooth Gateways and IoT Access Controller (AC) in hospitals to manage multiple Medtronic blood glucose monitors worn by patients. Read the full release HERE.
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SiSensing CGM In-Hospital Blood Glucose Management

Learn how Cassia Networks has partnered with Shenzhen SiSensing Bionics Technology to provide its Bluetooth IoT network for successful continuous glucose monitoring. Read the full case study HERE.
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Chipmunk Health Delivers Innovative Home Health Monitoring Solution with Cassia Networks

This case study focuses on how Chipmunk Health is working with Cassia Networks to offer their home health monitoring system to patients and providers at a lower cost and still have the control, compliance and ease of use. Read the full case study HERE.

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