Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Fingertips of the Network: Featherweight Communicators and Sensors (20 Jun 2005) Hewlett-Packard has a business opportunity in low- power, general-purpose, networked, 'featherweight' computing devices that act as sensors or user interaction tools. We have designed and built a set of very small devices targeted to hospital applications. The first device assists caregivers with patient management in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Each patient in the unit has a battery-powered wireless 'clipboard' that stores and displays medication plans, messages, and other patient-specific information. The clipboards use IR to communicate with Pocket PC iPAQs carried by the staff and low-power 802.15.4 radios to communicate with a back-office data server. Hospital trials commence in 2005. In conjunction with MIT; a later deployment is planned for hospital emergency room patients. Article URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2005/HPL-2005-114.html Read 122 more articles from HP Labs sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Integrating Presence and Location Services using SIP     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy