Real-time communications in medical devices

Small devices (embedded things, etc.) might take advantage of WebRTC as it provides a communication channel for real time communication, not only for video calls. Websockets provide a way to exchange traffic (data) in real time, with the characteristics of technology like security by default (both signalling and media are ciphered), low-latency and network efficiency.

For instance, Quobis Communications Platform has a C++ based stack for those smart devices that lack some of the components (browsers,…) needed to have a WebRTC-enabled session. This can help medical device manufacturers (including general-purpose sensors) to support WebRTC for data exchange and, even, if possible, place voice or video calls from rare devices. Zebra Academy is a Belgium-based technology provider that is helping emergency services and healthcare companies to efficiently manage patients in ambulances that have suffered a heart stroke. This is the first cause of acquired disability and one of the major causes of death today world-wide.

A WebRTC-based application built on top of Quobis SDKs is running in an embedded device in some ambulances to get two-way video-audio communications from the ambulance and get information from local sensors really easy to adopt for paramedics. This, together with a powerful web application for the doctor in the hospital (who is monitoring the shared critical stroke data) is reducing the criticality of the patients when they are being transferred to the hospital. We can talk about real-time treatment through registration and correction of vital parameters in the ambulance.

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