When working with an MDC manufacturer, it is wise to choose one
that incorporates ANSI/TIA-942-B standards, such as applicable
hot/cooling channel isolation, capacity redundancy, emergency backup,
and environment online monitoring in the development of the unit.
more important over time. Smartwatches today can measure
some health vitals, activity, and provide certain levels
of feedback based on the technology that currently exists.
It has become more than a novelty, but not quite to the
level that the user can forego professional health care. In
the not so distant future, the measurements will likely be
logged as historical information for baselines, predict
impending emergency, call for help, and even forward the
history that was gathered to the EMTs and the hospital.
Eventually, they may be able to preemptively alert others
around the user that there is about to be an emergency
so they can react (Figure 3).
According to the 2019 Ericsson Mobility Report, service
providers have already launched voice calling capabilities
on smart speakers using the same mobile phone number
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as on a smartphone. Building on Voice over LTE (VoLTE)
multi-device network capabilities with enhanced voice
services (EVS), several devices can be tied to the same
phone number, such as phones, cellular smartwatches,
smart speakers and other devices. There are now more
than 80 service provider networks with cellular smartwatches
enabled with voice services. Video calling over
LTE (ViLTE) is now provided in approximately 20 networks,
and there are 395 device models available. Other
services based on VoLTE include additional phone lines
on the same phone, group numbers, different types of
enterprise collaboration services in combination with
mobile HD voice, and voice in IoT devices. VoLTE requires
a very low latency figure around 10 milliseconds or 0.01
seconds, already sufficient for the health emergency
alerts described.
As this technology evolves, there may be non-contact
monitoring to detect health vitals and issues in one or
more people at a time in various locations. This technology
will not be intended to be intrusive but more as a life
safety tool, either by a smart device communicating with
a central monitoring system in a room or potentially with
advanced room detection devices. This application might
be seen at the workplace, homes, hotel rooms, and public
venues. The more places and the more lives that smart
devices monitor will increase bandwidth requirements
and shorten allowable latency times not only for feedback
and alerting, but also for the reactive action.
FIGURE 3: Novelty to necessity:
Real-time data will require near zero
latency response as technology evolves
and enables next generation applications.