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Continua Brings its Attention to Wi-Fi

Author: Jonathan Collins, Principal Analyst, Wireless Healthcare and M2M

Published: 16 Mar 2011

Continua Health Alliance has entered into an agreement with the Wi-Fi Alliance to facilitate and promote the Wi-Fi networking standard in connected health applications. The agreement brings two key industry groups together to review each group’s specifications and guidelines jointly. It will also help move Wi-Fi support into personal health and fitness applications originally dominated by proprietary communication protocols, but subsequently standardized on Continua’s ZigBee and Bluetooth Low Energy offerings. Continua’s effort with the Wi-Fi Alliance means that those technologies will increasingly face Wi-Fi, and most notably Low-power Wi-Fi, for wireless sensor communication as a competitor in this emerging market space.

The full text of this Insight is available to subscribers of the M2M Research Service and the Wireless Healthcare Research Service and the Wireless Connectivity Research Service.

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