ADTRAN and Ting Internet Perform Smart Gigabit Magic for In-Home Healthcare
September 19 2017 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
ADTRAN partner, Ting Internet, works with MAGIC
(Mid-Atlantic Gigabit Innovation Collaboratory) to advance
healthcare delivery through FTTH and smart home technology
ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of
next-generation open networking solutions, today announced that
through its highly successful Enabling Communities, Connecting
Lives program, it is empowering Ting Internet to deliver gigabit
connectivity throughout its Mid-Atlantic and Southeast territory,
including its recent rollout in Westminster, Maryland. Through a
project with the Mid-Atlantic Gigabit Innovation Collaboratory
(MAGIC) Smart Homes in Westminster, Ting is helping to provide
gigabit broadband to two MAGIC Smart Homes for individuals living
with disabilities in Carroll County, Maryland. These extraordinary
MAGIC Smart Homes will have sensors installed that can collect
health measurements, as well as behavioral data that will help
health specialists draw conclusions about how to improve quality of
life and ensure safety inside the home. The intelligent MAGIC Smart
Homes move “smart homes” well beyond a concept to a reality that
will help improve lives and enable individuals to “age in
place.”
“Applying smart home technology to healthcare monitoring will
help us improve the quality of life, ensure safety in the home, and
provide much needed medical data to our community’s health
providers,” said Dr. Robert Wack of MAGIC. “Ting Internet’s and
ADTRAN’s roles in helping to develop a scalable fiber network to
Westminster ensure the routing of this health data is highly
secure, reliable and instantaneous.”
MAGIC has developed the Smart Home project as an innovative
collaboration utilizing broadband-enabled technologies in a
residential setting. The homes will gather a wide variety of data,
provide intelligent monitoring, analysis and alerts as well as
enable remote healthcare to make a measurable positive impact on
the quality of life for residents. The MAGIC Smart Home project
aims to combine telemedicine and patient data collected to decrease
emergency department visits, unplanned medical appointments and
staff time spent on non-scheduled medical care for fragile-health
populations.
“As we continue to expand our service area, having the
opportunity to witness first-hand how gigabit speeds can impact an
individual’s quality of life in every aspect has been eye-opening,”
said Adam Eisner, VP of networks at Ting Internet. “The
applications that are benefiting from gigabit speeds continue to
push the limits and do what traditionally was thought to be
unachievable. The lives that the MAGIC Smart Home project is
improving are proof of how broadband transforms communities.”
Two residential homes for adults with intellectual disabilities
will be connected through a variety of sensors to an intelligent
integration platform, which will collect data, analyze, report and
alert in real time. For patients with chronic health conditions,
this technology allows for daily monitoring of vital signs that can
be securely uploaded to their primary care physician. If needed, a
secure connection across the network supports a video-enabled
physician visit without the patient needing to leave their home.
The system also provides administrative support to staff while
still performing typical smart home functions with mechanical
system and appliance management.
“Communities are transformed when high-speed internet enters
their city limits, and the benefits to education and business are
certainly impactful. This use case also delves into new territory,”
said Brian Efimetz, senior director of sales for SP North at
ADTRAN. “Providing the broadband access to support the level of
connected sensors and devices necessary to monitor and ultimately
improve patients’ health – that is very exciting to be a part
of.”
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data,
video and Internet communications across a variety of network
infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service
providers, private enterprises, government organizations, and
millions of individual users worldwide. For more information,
please visit www.adtran.com.
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