Alive Technologies Receives Frost & Sullivan's 2008 Australia Product Innovation Award in Remote Patient Monitoring Systems.
Award

CardioMobile, a system for real-time remote monitoring of ECG, heart rate, location and speed, is being trialled by Queensland University of Technology's Institude of Health and Biomedical Innovation for post MI patients undergoing a walking exercise program. The system uses the Alive Heart Monitor, a GPS, and mobile phone.
Mini ECG gets heart attack rehab patients mobile [QUT news]
Channel 9 News (video)
Cardiomobile: A feasibility study of remote cardiac rehabilitation [QUT IHBI]
Example: Remote Cardiac Rehabilitation [QUT IHBI]
Mobile Rehab Monitoring With a Cell Phone [medGadget]

eCoach, an open source application for managing sport activities on the Nokia Internet Tablet, supports the Alive Heart Monitor. Data from a GPS and the Alive Heart Monitor is stored in GPX format, that can be analyzed using eCoach or other GPX supporting software.
eCoach

Paul Coulton demonstrates an exertion mapping application and a simple heart rate controlled game using the Alive Heart Monitor and Nokia N95.
Heart Controlled Mobile Interaction

Diagnostic Quality Driven Energy-efficient and Bandwidth-scalable Physiological Data Collection for Wireless Telehealth
Diagnostic Quality Driven Physiological Data Collection for Personal Healthcare

Niranjan Bidargaddi and Antti Sarela from the eHealth Research Centre, were given the Best Paper Award for their paper and research using the Alive Heart and Activity monitor.
Best paper award
Presentation

Ambulatory monitor derived clinical measures for continuous assessment of cardiac rehabilitation patients in a community care mode

MobHealth, an open source extensible mobile health framework written in JavaME supports the Alive Heart and Activity Monitor and Alive Pulse Oximeter. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mobhealth

Alive Heart and Activity Monitor used in fitness training system from HCI Lab, University of Udine, Italy.

Publications
Title: MOPET: A context-aware and user-adaptive wearable system for fitness training
Publication: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 42, Issue 2
Date: February 2008

The Alive Heart and Activity Monitor was used in activity monitoring research from VTT Technical Research Centre, IST International Security Technology, KIHU Research Institute for Olympic Sports, and University of Jyväskylä Finland.

Publications
Title: A Concept for Personal Wellness Management Based on Activity Monitoring
Publication: Proceedings of Workshop on Ambient Technologies for Diagnosing and Monitoring Chronic Patients (ATDMCP)
Date: January 29, 2008

Motovator, a PocketPC GPS-based timing system for motocross adds support for the Alive Heart Monitor.
http://www.motovator.dk

Research paper from e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia.

Publications
Title: Detecting walking activity in cardiac rehabilitation by using accelerometer
Publication: To appear in: The Third International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP) 2007
Date: December 2007

Report from Networked & Embedded Systems Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles

Energy Consumption Analysis for Bluetooth, WiFi and Cellular Networks
NESL Technical Report #: TR-UCLA-NESL-200712-01

Research papers from the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore.

Publications
Title: Smart Phone-Based Automatic QT Interval Measurement
Published: Computers in Cardiology 2007 Proceedings, Volume 34
Date: October, 2007

Title: Cellular Phone Based Online ECG Processing for Ambulatory and Continuous Detection
Published: Computers in Cardiology 2007 Proceedings, Volume 34
Date: October, 2007

The Alive Heart and Activity Monitor is used in a study into inline skating as part of the Xensor System, a research data collection platform running on a smartphone.

Publications
Title: What's that hot thing in my pocket? SocioXensor, a smartphone data collector
Presented at: e-Social Science 2007, the Third International Conference on e-Social Science
Date: October 7-9, 2007

The Alive Heart Monitor and Alive Pulse Oximeter was used in research projects at the Fraunhofer IAIS and presented at Ubicomp 2007.

Publications
Title: CardioViz: Contextual Capture and Visualization for Long-term ECG Data
Adjunct Proceedings of Ubicomp 2007

Title: Monitoring Heartbeat per Day to Motivate Increasing Physical Activity
UbiComp Workshop on Interaction with Ubiquitous Wellness and Healthcare Applications (UbiWell), Innsbruck, 16. September 2007

Research paper from e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia.

Publications
Title: Wavelet based approach for posture transition estimation using a waist worn accelerometer
Published: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007
Date: Aug 22-26, 2007

Microsoft Research have announced TripleBeat, an exercise system using a mobile phone and the Alive Heart and Activity Monitor.
Triplebeat

An innovative diabetes management trial being conducted by Monash University, University of Queensland and Boston University has been launched. Alive Technologies are providing a system for remotely monitoring the blood glucose levels of the trial participants using mobile phones.
Diabetes patients set to get some TLC [Monash University]
Diabetes patients on the line [The Australian]

The Alive Heart and Activity Monitor featured in a segment on ABC TV's Good Morning America on new applications for cellphones that enhance our lives. The MPTrain fitness application from Microsoft Research was shown, which uses the Alive Monitor for heart rate monitoring.
Good Morning America Segment (video)
Microsoft Research MPTrain Application

The Alive Heart Monitor has been used by researchers at the Department of Biology of Physical Activity, University of Jyväskylä, and the Research Institute for Olympic Sports, Finland.

Publications
Title: A Novel Method for Using Heart Rate Variability Data for Estimation of Oxygen Consumption and Energy Expenditure: A Validation Study
Published: 12th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Jyväskylä, Finland
Date: July 2007

Title: Awakening Cortisol is Dependent On Awakening Time but Awakening Response is Not
Published: 12th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Jyväskylä, Finland
Date: July 2007

Title: Comparison of Heartbeat and Movement Based Methods to Evaluate Daily Physical Activity During Occupational Rehabilitation Courses
Published: 12th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Jyväskylä, Finland
Date: July 2007

BeTelGeuse, a mobile tool for Bluetooth data gathering supports the Alive Heart Monitor.

Publications
Title: BeTelGeuse - A Tool for Bluetooth Data Gathering
Proc. 2nd International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets, Florence, Italy, June 2007).

The Alive Heart Monitor was featured with The Personal Health Monitor smartphone software developed by Peter Leijdekkers and Valerie Gay at the University of Technology Sydney, which was the winner on the Australian ABC TV New Inventors (Episode 21).
ABC New Inventors: Personal Health Monitor (video)
Personal Health Monitor

Researchers at the Human Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Udine in Italy have developed a video game that adapts to your heart rate and movement using the Alive Heart and Activity Monitor and the Alive Pulse Oximeter.
Videogames that adapt to the player's heart rate

Video game follows your movements, adapts to your heart rate [Engadet]
Heart rate sensor controls games' difficulty [Joystiq]

Publications
Title: Adaptation of Graphics and Gameplay in Fitness Games by Exploiting Motion and Physiological Sensors
Published: Proceedings of SG 2007: 7th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4569, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.
Date: June 2007

Bluetooth health monitoring lets you upload your vital stats to your doctor from home [Gizmag]
Let Your Cellphone Monitor, Transfer Your Vitals & More [medGadget]

Sydney Morning Herald:
The answering machine that could save lives

Publications
Title: Benefits Realised by the EHRC Ambulatory Monitoring Project
Published: 14th Annual Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2006), Sydney, Australia
Date: Aug 2006

Title: Quantifying Functional Mobility Progress for Chronic Disease Management
Published: 8th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Eng in Medicine & Biology Society
Date: Aug 2006

Title: Quantified Method of Assessing Functional Progress in Patients Undergoing Rehabilitation
Date: Aug 2006

Title: Ambulatory Monitoring for Chronic Disease Rehabilitation
Published: Aged Care Informatics Conference (ACIC)
Date: May 2006

National Nine News July 2005:
The Prince Charles Hospital Personal Ambulatory Monitoring Clinical Trials story

The Geek Stories. Interview with Bruce Satchwell, CEO of Alive Technologies.
http://on10.net/Blogs/nhodge/the-geek-stories-wireless-health-gadgets-for-life/

Alive Technologies mobile health and fitness monitoring system was chosen as a finalist for the Asian Innovation Awards. Presented by the Wall Street Journal Asia.
wsjaia.pdf

Alive Technologies Pty Ltd announces AliveECG - The ECG and activity monitoring software for Windows and Windows Mobile devices.
aliveecgmr.pdf

The Alive Heart Monitor used in BodyKom™ system from Kiwok.
http://www.kiwok.se
BodyKom Video

The Alive Heart Monitor used by the Mobile Ubiquitous Services & Technologies Group at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Publications
Title: Personal Heart Monitoring and Rehabilitation System using Smart Phones
Published: IEEE International conference on mobile business, m>business2006
Date: June 2006

Title: Around the Clock Personalized Health Monitoring Using Smart Phones
Published: 4th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics ICOST2006
Date: June 2006

Title: Personal Heart Monitoring System using Smart Phones to detect life threatening Arrhythmias
Published: 19th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS
Date: June 2006

Microsoft Research develops a mobile phone based exercise system using the Alive Heart Monitor.
MPTrain: A Mobile Music and Physiology Based Personal Trainer

Publications
Title: An Observational Trial of Ambulatory Monitoring of Elderly Patients
Published: 12th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME)
Date: Dec 2005

Title: Wireless Personal Monitoring of Patient Movement and Vital Signs
Published: Conference on Computational Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare (CIMED)
Date: June 2005

Alive Technologies exhibited at Medica 2005 at the Dusseldorf Trade Fair Centre in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Hall 14 / C61
http://www.medica.de/

Alive Technologies develops Bluetooth remote control cars for Microsoft Teched 2005.
http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/archive/2005/08/23/455064.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/archive/2005/08/22/454403.aspx
Windows Media video

Alive Technologies in collaboration with Bond Wireless streamed a live webcast of former Olympian Pat Carroll running in the Gold Coast Marathon.
http://www.alivetec.com/gcm2005

Live webcast from the 2004 Gold Coast Marathon.
http://www.alivetec.com/gcm2004

Alive Technologies monitors runners in the London Marathon, with a live webcast.
http://www.alivesport.com