RDT Ltd are recognised as leaders in telemedicine for aviation, maritime and remote land locations. The company specialises in compact and highly integrated vital signs monitors for non-medically trained, intermittent and professional users.

The Brief

RDT needed a partner to support them in the development of their Tempus IC life-saving remote diagnostics product that transmits a full set of medical parameters with simultaneous real-time voice and video. This required creation of an embedded solution that enabled RDT’s application developers to deliver a reliable, responsive, high quality experience that was simple to use, even for non-medically trained customers.

The Solution

Fen worked with RDT’s engineering team to develop a multi-wireless standard hardware and software solution that allowed RDT to take the unit through a series of stringent medical, aviation and environmental conformance tests. Fen integrated a board support package and developed a fully documented software solution that presented a defined API to the application development team. Power efficiency for this battery operated unit was a key design consideration.

The Skills and Experience Used

• System - Analysis of problem, specification development, and implementation and testing of solution.
• Hardware - Embedded processor control to handle a number of diagnostic and multimedia interfaces. Designing in co-existence of a number of wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, GSM/GPRS.
• Software - Full WinCE based development including both a test & evaluation application on a Fen defined API. Included WinCE device driver development.
• Test & Production - Test interface application development to create a tool that could be used for both hardware and software evaluation and lab test, and the basis of a production test application.

The Customer Reaction