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Dissertation shows:
WHY MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SHOULD BE
CONNECTED What value can IoT create in Life Science? Engineering students Kristoffer Wallin and John Mikael Randelin from Chalmers University of Technology examined this in their dissertation project at Consat during the spring. The results show that there is great value in implementing IoT in Life Science – but first some challenges need to be surmounted. WHAT IS YOUR DISSERTATION ABOUT? Consat has developed an IoT platform that has already been used in various sectors. Our aim was to contribute knowledge regarding value and challenges that could arise when it is used in Life Science. In our work, we aimed to answer the following questions: “What economic and social value can be created by integrating IoT in Life Science?” and “What challenges does IoT face in the area of Life Science?”. IoT in Life Science is a fairly broad area which can include everything from connecting a pacemaker or a flash glucose monitor to an X-ray generator to using a morphsuit to evaluate movement patterns. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO DO YOUR DISSERTATION AT CONSAT? We found Ulrika Lin’s contact details in a catalogue from Chalmers’ career fair, which Consat had taken part in. We contacted her and she told us about Consat and the opportunities for doing our disser88 CONTEXT / #1 / 2022
tation at her department. After that the decision was easy. Ulrika also helped us find a good topic for the project and acted as our supervisor during the spring. WHAT WAS IT LIKE DOING YOUR DISSERTATION AT CONSAT? The whole project went very well. We got a lot of support from our supervisor and other staff at Consat. Because we chose a qualitative analysis method that involved interviews, it was invaluable to have such ready access to people with the right expertise at Consat and among the company’s contacts. Consat really deserves praise for the way they helped us find a relevant topic that was of interest to both parties. WHAT CONCLUSIONS DID YOU REACH – IS THERE ANY VALUE IN IMPLEMENTING IOT IN LIFE SCIENCE? IoT has potential to create enormous value in Life Science. Connected medical equipment makes it possible to get real time feed-