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Visit Shimmer Research at the IEEE SENSORS 2011 Conference from October 28^th – 31^st. The University of Limerick in Ireland is the venue for the event, and Shimmer Research will have a stand located at the main entrance next to the Registration Desk. We will have information, equipment, and some application demos at the stand throughout the event, and visitors will have the opportunity to meet with our engineers and discuss potential applications.

The IEEE SENSORS Conference provides a common forum for research scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings ideas, developments and applications in the area of sensors and sensing technology. IEEE SENSORS 2011 Conference will include keynote addresses by eminent scientists as well as Invited Speakers for the Topical Special sessions.

Visit the IEEE Sensors 2011 – Conference Website

Visit Shimmer Research at EMBC Boston 2011

Booth Location
Shimmer Hosted Session at EMBC
Shimmer Research – Proud Sponsors of the EMBS Unconference on Wearable & Ubiquitous Technology for Health & Wellness
Shimmer Research – Proud Sponsors of the Wearable Technology Demo Competition

Booth Location

Our Booth will be located beside the poster area in the American Ballroom at the Westin Copley Hotel. We will be available throughout the show to meet attendees at our stand, demonstrate the Shimmer wearable sensor platform, and discuss potential applications in academic research, clinical trials, and project development.

To arrange a meeting with us during EMBC contact us via email: info ‘at’ shimmer-research.com.

Shimmer Hosted Session at EMBC

Shimmer Research would like to invite attendees at this year’s EMBC conference to join us as we host a session on wearable wireless sensing. Designed as a workshop, the session is open to all attendees that have registered for the conference, with no additional registration/payment required.

• When:                           13.00 – 14.30, Wednesday, August 31, 2011
• Where:                         Mariott 3^rd Floor, Berkeley
• Find out more:        Visit our Session Webpage for further details

What can I expect?

A live demonstration of building and customizing an application will be given. A Shimmer partner – Biosensics LLC- will also present and discuss their transition from research into commercialization based on a unique activity classification solution (PAMSys) developed on the shimmer platform. PAMSys (Physical Activity Monitoring System) provides a complete and comprehensive map of individuals’ physical activity including detailed posture classification (sitting, standing, walking, lying).

We hope you can join us and look forward to seeing you at the workshop.

Proud Sponsors of EMBS Unconference

Shimmer Research is proud to be sponsoring the EMBS Unconference on Wearable & Ubiquitous Technology for Health & Wellness – Tuesday, August 30, 2011. The purpose of the day is to bring together all those who care about addressing key challenges in the translation of technology from the lab to the field around wearable and ubiquitous technology for health and wellness.

With a highly innovate format the Unconference agenda/schedule for the day will be created live the day of the event – yes this works! The real time nature means that emerging developments can be discussed and new ideas and unfolding research can be explored.  Bring your ideas, knowledge and enthusiasm to this event and you will get a lot out of it!

The Unconference will be attended by some of the leading experts in the industry, and is being organized in conjunction with Kaliya Hamlin, one of the world’s leading experts in designing and facilitating Unconferences.

Being touted as ‘one of the best conferences you ever attend’ we are proud to be sponsoring (and excited to be attending) what promises to an extremely engaging and worthwhile event.

Details:

• When:              Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 8:30am – 5:45pm
• Where:             3rd floor, Boston Westin Copley Place
• Webpage:         http://embc2011.embs.org/unconference/introduction/
• Registration:      http://embc2011.embs.org/register/

Proud Sponsors of the Wearable Technology Demo Competition

Shimmer Research is proud to be sponsoring the Wearable Technology Demo Competition at the EMBS Unconference on Wearable & Ubiquitous Technology for Health & Wellness.

The topic for the demonstrations will be to highlight wearable sensors and systems for medical applications. Participants are encouraged to submit a video of their demonstration prior to the event, with presentations on the day in speed geeking format. Two demos will be selected for an award as the most innovative and the highest potential impact demos. The awardees will receive a check for $500 sponsored by Shimmer Research.

Best of luck to all participants and we look forward seeing a video preview of the demos online.

Further Detail: http://embc2011.embs.org/unconference/submit-an-abstract/

TEDMED has released the presentation given by Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm at the conference last October. Jacobs shares his vision for the future of Wireless Healthcare where people will always feel in touch with their doctor, and their health can be monitored at all times for when something goes wrong. This he notes will be realised by wearable wireless sensors, to improve individuals’ healthcare from aiding acute and chronic conditions, to a person’s general health and wellbeing. Jacobs demonstrates a Shimmer on the 7:25 mark, which monitors the activity of a person whilst the data is being remotely interpreted in real time.

The program interpreting and displaying the data captured can be viewed on an interview conducted with Paul Jacobs at TEDMED. The program is displayed on the 1:50 mark – view video.

Shimmer Research is to attend Arab Health 2010 which taking place from the 25^th – 28^th of January at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. Kieran Daly, VP of Business Development will be representing Shimmer Research, and can be contacted at AmRay Medical’s stand (Hall 2: Stand 2J70).

The Arab Health Exhibition & Congress is the largest healthcare exhibition in the Middle East, and the second largest in the world. Established 35 years ago, it provides a platform for the world’s leading manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors to meet the medical and scientific community in the Middle East and beyond.

Kieran Daly will be displaying the Shimmer unit in operation throughout the event and will be demonstrating the latest ECG application which remotely monitors and displays heart beat rate and QRS waveforms. The application also indicates a normal heart rate, and detects arrhythmias for real time patient monitoring.

To arrange a meeting with Kieran Daly – email us at: info ‘at’ shimmer-research.com.

TEDMED 2009 was held recently, from the 27^th – 30^th of October in San Diego, California. TEDMED celebrates conversations that demonstrate the intersection and connections between all things medical and healthcare related: from personal health to public health, devices to design and Hollywood to the hospital.

Speaking at the conference Ambassador Eric Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, urged attendees not to pursue wireless health services because they are a “shiny new technology” or because they are “innovative, creative and flashy,” but rather because, if they do improve health outcomes for patients, then they should be core tools for medical workers and global health programs.

Also speaking at the conference was Eric Dishman from Intel’s Digital Health Group, who noted the importance of “Behavioural Makers” and made particular reference to the Shimmer platform. Describing Shimmer as a small unit that fits into a pocket and monitors such attributes as hand tremor, gait and stride length. This he noted helps the understanding of how a change in a person’s daily patterns, or characteristic markers, of behaviour could be used for diagnostic purposes.

Paul Jacob’s, CEO of Qualcomm noted that ‘timing couldn’t better for introducing patients to new digital health tools’. Jacob’s demonstrating a number of wireless health monitoring devices and sensors during his presentation, however many saw the highlight to be a Cookie Monster toy that moved around the stage, fell down, and stood back up again. The toy was wearing a Shimmer which allowed for the remote monitoring of the toys activity, and also sent a prompt alert when a fall had been detected.

To read the full on article Eric Dishman’s speech at TEDMED 2009 published in the Scientific American please click here, or to read a brief overview of all the speakers mentioned, please click here.

PRESS RELEASE

Cambridge, MA October 7, 2009. Insight Diagnostics Inc (IDI) presented at the First Shimmer Technology Exchange at Harvard University.

Shimmer Research and Insight Diagnostics, Inc have partnered to bring state of the art technology for the diagnosis and treatment of soft tissue injuries into a wireless format.   IDI’s proprietary technology Electrodiagnostic Functional Assessment, EFA brings physicians and insurers an innovative non invasive way to evaluate previously elusive soft tissue injuries.  Shimmer™ is a small wireless sensor platform designed to support wearable applications. The partnership between Shimmer Research and IDI will enhance the technology for delivery of the Electrodiagnostic Functional Assessment. IDI is using Shimmer Research’s technology to make the new device most effective for diagnosis of soft tissue injuries. The new device can have profound implications for cost effective evaluations of soft tissue related injuries and can even make inroads in cardiac monitoring.

To read the full Press Release – click here.

For more information on Shimmer – click here.

We are delighted to announce the first Shimmer Technology Exchange which will be held on the 5th and 6th of October at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.

STE 2009 will provide a forum for the SHIMMER community to learn from one another about important developments and SHIMMER related projects both in academia and industry. The two day event will include a one day hands-on SHIMMER training course followed by a one day workshop in which researchers will present exciting projects and lead in-depth technical discussions. There will also be an open-mic session where any of the attendees can give a short presentation on what they are doing with SHIMMER.

For details, including registration please see the website below. Registration will open soon.

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~konrad/ste09/

We hope to see you there!

Thousands of invited key decision makers and CEOs from the European and American healthcare sectors converged on London 18-19 June to attend the 2009 NHS Innovations Expo held at the ExCel Centre. The event showcased cutting edge medical developments and future healthcare technology.

One of the keynote speakers was Louis Burns, Intel corporate vice-president and general manager of the Intel Digital Health Group. Louis spoke about the work of the TRIL Centre and his talk included a demonstration of some of their work around assessing the balance of an older person. Louis gave a live demonstration of the BioMOBIUS Gait assessment tool in which he walked around the stage wearing SHIMMER sensors. To find out more follow this link.

Next week the Shimmer team will be attending the ICOST 2009 conference in Tours, France. The theme of the conference – now in its 7th year – is “Ambient assistive health and wellness management in the heart of the city” and will focus its attention on usability of assistive services in daily open space.

Shimmer will be demonstrating various applications in the demo section adjacent to the main conference room. Some of the applications we will be showing are:

Activity monitor – using 3 shimmers placed on the body we will display an individuals position streaming over Bluetooth in realtime.

Accelerometer and ECG mobile phone application – the user wears an ECG shimmer and will demonstrate an application to record and transmit this data with a Symbian mobile phone and onwards to a PC via GSM or wifi.

Device networking – a proxy server which will connect over Bluetooth to a Shimmer. Added to this we will show a client/viewer, which could be running in multiple instance on different computers on the network. On the viewer the flow of data on up to 6 channels can be displayed at the same rate as the data being sent by the Shimmer.

Ben Kuris, Director of Hardware Engineering is attending BSN 2009 all this week. There are a number of papers being presented that have used the Shimmer platform.

BSN 2009 is jointly hosted by the University of California Centre for Information Technology Research in the Interests of Society (CITRIS) and the Centre for Pervasive Sensing at Imperial College London.

Body sensor networks (BSN) technology has gained tremendous international interest in recent years from researchers both in academia and industry. With the development of innovative wearable/wireless/implantable biosensors, the applications for BSNs extend from in-vivo monitoring and intervention to everyday healthcare, as well as fitness, sport and security. This workshop will address the fast-growing BSN research field, and offers participants a unique forum to discuss the key issues and innovative solutions in current BSN research. The conference will feature a number of invited lectures by leading academic researchers and industrial experts and include a showcase and demonstration of healthcare and other technologies.