How the Lessons of COVID-19 are Helping to Improve Healthcare Delivery
summary
Herald is an open source Bluetooth Low Energy messaging layer now hosted by Linux Foundation Public Health and already powering apps in Australia and Alberta with over 7.6 million users; the project publishes ~8 million raw RSSI samples, demonstrates phone self‑calibration to within ~7.5% distance error in ~48 hours, and supports device‑side analytics for privacy. Working prototypes include hospital Bluetooth mesh trackers (nodes cost ~$20–30) for equipment and biopsy tracking, wearables with multi‑year battery life, and a decentralized messaging spec called gpdmp for offline emergency comms.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:33Agenda
- 12:00Bluetooth Mesh
- 15:44Blood Glucose Monitors
- 16:40Smart Hospital
- 17:48Entrance to a Hospital
- 27:11Linking a Bluetooth Mesh
- 28:11Disaster Communication
- 30:47General Purpose Decentralized Messaging Protocol
- 36:56Device Analytics
- 37:13In-Memory Analysis Api
- 38:05Personal Health Monitoring
- 42:19Where To Find Out More
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