Wireless Engineered for Clinical Reliability
Healthcare devices depend on wireless communication that remains predictable, responsive, and energy-efficient in complex RF environments. SPARK LE-UWB™ delivers deterministic timing, ultra-low latency, and ultra-low energy consumption for short-range communication—helping medical device designers transmit time-sensitive data reliably while preserving battery life and product flexibility.
WHERE CONVENTIONAL WIRELESS FALLS SHORT IN HEALTHCARE
Healthcare Has Outgrown Conventional Wireless
Healthcare devices often depend on continuous data transfer, rapid response, predictable timing, and extended battery life—all within compact, energy-constrained designs. Conventional wireless technologies typically optimize only part of this performance envelope, forcing designers to balance responsiveness and data capacity against energy consumption and communication reliability.
Reliability in Dense RF Environments
Hospitals concentrate Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, medical devices, and monitoring systems within the same physical space, creating dense and constantly changing RF conditions. Increased contention, interference, and multipath can introduce packet loss and latency variation, making predictable wireless performance more difficult to maintain.
Power for Continuous Monitoring
Wearable and continuous-monitoring devices must operate for extended periods without increasing battery size, device weight, thermal output, or charging frequency. Wireless energy consumption therefore becomes a defining constraint on product usability, maintenance requirements, and long-term monitoring performance.
Beyond Conventional Wireless
As patient monitoring becomes more continuous and data-intensive, healthcare devices increasingly depend on predictable timing, low latency, and minimal energy consumption. BLE, Zigbee, and Wi-Fi were optimized for different operating priorities, making it difficult to deliver this combination within the strict constraints of medical devices.
Enabling the Next Generation of Healthcare Devices
Wireless for Healthcare Without Compromise
SPARK LE-UWB™ gives medical device designers a predictable, energy-efficient wireless link for applications where timing, continuity, and data integrity matter. It supports extended operation for compact biomedical sensors, cable-free connectivity for portable diagnostic equipment, and consistent communication across dense clinical RF environments. Deterministic wireless for healthcare data that cannot afford delay or uncertainty.
Patient Monitoring
Continuous patient monitoring requires wireless links that reliably deliver time-sensitive data in RF-dense environments. Wearable monitors must preserve battery life while ensuring dependable data across rooms. LE-UWB™ provides ultra-low power, low-latency wireless for predictable short-range communication and robust coexistence.
Healthcare Wearables and Sensors
Clinical wearables now capture multiple physiological signals like ECG, motion, and temperature with better synchronization and lower power. LE-UWB™ offers a radio architecture supporting low-power signaling and high-value data transfer, enabling advanced healthcare devices beyond BLE or Wi-Fi limits.
Portable Medical Devices and Instrumentation
Portable medical devices need reliable wireless data transfer without added cables or setup time, preserving battery life. Used bedside, in procedure rooms, or mobile carts, they require fast, low-interference connectivity. LE-UWB™ provides low-power, short-range links for robust communication in crowded clinical RF environments.
Implantable and Body-Integrated Devices
Implantable medical devices demand compact form, low power, and high reliability. LE-UWB™ offers low-power wireless for compact transceivers and high-value data transfer in neural interfaces, prosthetics, stimulators, and body-integrated sensors, preserving strict power and size limits.
Start evaluating in days, not months
The SR1120 EVK provides everything needed to bring a working LE-UWB™ wireless link to life before committing to a custom layout. The kit combines the SR1120 transceiver with SPARK’s SDK, Datalink software interface, and application firmware examples, giving engineering teams a direct path from first power-on to a characterized wireless proof of concept.
Products
SR1120, LE-UWB™ transceiver.
The SR1120 is SPARK’s recommended silicon platform for the healthcare applications featured on this page. Its configurable physical layer, dynamic PHY scaling, and antenna diversity support allow designers to tailor throughput, latency, range, and energy consumption to the specific requirements of each device—while maintaining a common silicon platform as product needs evolve.