When it comes to technology and the medical profession, there is an ever-changing partnership between the two. The market for Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) sensors is one area that is set to see an explosion of growth. While this particular sector of the market is relatively new, there are signs that adoption rates are about to increase at pretty impressive rates. Some industry analysts believe that as many as five million disposable sensors will be shipped by the end of 2018.
MBAN sensors will be able to fill quite a few needs in the medical technological field and this in turn will mean that more and more clinics will be pushing for adoption. Among the features that these sensors will bring will be the ability to quickly and easily measure the body temperature through wearable sensors.
MBANs are certainly not going to be the only approach that is taken when it comes to finding new and emerging technologies to lean on. Industry analysts believe that the next five years will see an influx of approaches that are all vying to become SOP for their areas. Jonathan Collins, the principal analyst at ABI research, talked about how much MBAN could take advantage of the markets in the next few years.
“The market for disposable MBAN sensors will differ from the wider wearable wireless device market in its support for specific protocols,” he said. “Where Bluetooth Smart will dominate connectivity in the total wearable wireless device market, two competing approaches will be prominent in the disposable healthcare market over the next few years: proprietary and NFC.”
ABI and Collins believe that this market in particular will lend itself to proprietary offerings from existing equipment suppliers. That will hold true as long as those suppliers have a good relationship with healthcare clients. GE Healthcare and Phillips have already signaled that they are looking at pushing MBAN adoption in the United States.
Edited by
Rachel Ramsey
