IoT Belfast 20 - Connected Health Event

This month's IoT Belfast theme is Connected Health.

BT have kindly offered to host the event in their amazing Riverside offices, and will provide refreshments.

1. JOHN DAVIES, Chief Researcher, BT
   Title: IoT... from data to insight
   Description: This presentation will review the technology layers that comprise the Internet of Things and will discuss the extraction of value from IoT data with reference to healthcare and other applications area.

2. DAVID BRANAGH, Centre Director, Connected Health Innovation Centre
   Title: Health Connected Projects and CHIC
   Description: CHIC is an industry-led research organisation with a vision of transforming healthcare. This presentation will cover the drivers of connected healthcare as well as looking in more detail at a number of IoT projects CHIC has worked on including management of heart failure and smart long-term care.

3. THOMAS BROLLY, Senior Software Engineer, HeartSine
   Title: Utilising Connected Health and IoT technologies to monitor new and legacy devices, maintaining service across multiple locations.
   Description: Medical devices such as Defibrillators will remain unused for most (in some cases, all) of their service life. This is similar to the functionality of other emergency products such as fire extinguishers. It is important however to ensure that in the event that they are needed, they will operate flawlessly, due to the nature of the emergency at hand. Our product line already incorporates integrated automatic testing to detect and report issues to the user who reviews the status of the device as part of a regular inspection schedule. The connectivity that can be provided by incorporating IoT technology, offers an additional level of confidence to our customers in ensuring all connected devices will operate to their full effectiveness. HeartSine Connected samaritan PAD (Public Access Defibrillator) enables AED (Automated External Defibrillator) program managers to readily manage a fleet of HeartSine® AEDs across single or multiple locations. The HeartSine Connected samaritan PAD can seamlessly interface with LIFENET®, a comprehensive cloud-based platform that provides information and tools to support devices in the field. LIFENET® can respond to issues discovered in the field and provide feedback and instruction to enable early intervention for device maintenance. This presentation will include an overview of a system that is used to monitor manage and locate AEDs made locally.

There will be a short period of networking after the presentations. Then, as is customary, we'll retire to a nearby pub.