The Best Components for Home Healthcare Applications: MEMs Oscillators vs Crystal Oscillators

Find Out Which Components Provide Superior Solutions When Comparing MEMs and Quartz Crystal Oscillators

As the healthcare industry’s technologies continue to expand so patients can receive effective care tailored to their needs, quartz crystal oscillators lead the way as frequency solutions for many healthcare applications. The highly precise frequencies generated by quartz crystals provide the healthcare technologies the quality required to ensure there is no disruption in crucial services and so that accurate monitoring can occur and emergencies can be met with live-saving responses.

Home healthcare, a market within the healthcare industry, is growing significantly to accommodate medical assistance that is better suited – or preferred – for a home environment. Applications within this industry are particularly reliant on crystal oscillator frequency solutions to bridge the gap between traditional medical settings and homes. Fortunately, like all Internet of Things (IoT) products, crystal oscillators create a strong, accurate, stable frequency that allows healthcare professionals to monitor their patients at home and provide patients with a reliable, permanent connection to healthcare workers at a moment’s notice.

An important note on this topic is that ECS Inc.’s frequency solutions provide necessary support for the healthcare industry and demonstrate quartz crystal’s superiority when comparing MEMs oscillators with crystal oscillators.

Crystal Oscillators Are Highly Effective for These Home Healthcare Applications

Any equipment that is brought into the home for healthcare monitoring, testing and other medical services typically require quartz crystal oscillators for frequency solutions to connect electronic devices by Wi-Fi, cellular network or Bluetooth.

A Wide Range of Medical Equipment: Whether it is transfusion equipment, heart and blood pressure monitors or nearly any other medical device that serves patients at home, it needs to be able to connect back to a medical device monitoring company or the patient’s medical team. Additionally, timing solutions are used within these devices to activate or manage their functions.

IoT-Connected Hospitals and Public Emergency Equipment: Other venues such as IoT-connected hospitals or public spaces where AEDs are used also require frequency solutions, allowing these devices to provide information to relevant personnel in the case of an emergency or so medical providers can monitor their patients wirelessly while still meeting the requirements of their busy shifts or when short-staffed.

ECS Inc. continues to lead the way in designing and distributing frequency solutions for the ever-evolving healthcare industry to ensure that every patient – whether in a medical facility or the comfort of their home – gets the care and support they need. Otherwise, ECS Inc. provides a wide range of exceptional crystal oscillator products to meet your needs when designing for the medical and healthcare industries.

Weighing In on the MEMs Oscillator vs Crystal Oscillator Debate for Home Healthcare Applications

While much has been written about MEMs oscillators’ potential low cost, short lead times, durability and improved quality, the downsides of MEMs settle the MEMs oscillators vs crystal oscillators debate.

While MEMs require significant power consumption as well as multiple compensations to work effectively, crystal oscillators provide high-quality overall frequency performance with low power usage and are equally as durable – without the additional requirements needed to make MEMs competitive.Additionally, when it comes to the healthcare industry, the durability of MEMs – as well as their longevity – are not important factors, as most healthcare environments do not require products with heavy-duty durability. Technologies are often replaced long before MEMs lifespan would even have relevance. Further, it has become more challenging to acquire MEMs to meet the needs of the healthcare industry as efficiently as quartz oscillators can.

This is why engineers developing medical devices and technologies rely on quartz crystal oscillators from ECS Inc. ECS Inc.’s frequency solutions – including low-cost tuning fork watch crystals and surface mount crystals – allow engineers to develop products that allow medical professionals to deliver high-quality care to their patients. Partner with ECS Inc. for the leading quartz crystal oscillator components available on the market today.

How to Work with ECS Inc. for Frequency Solutions – and More Information on MEMs Oscillators vs. Crystal Oscillators

If you are seeking more information about the superior performance and quality of quartz crystal oscillators, read ECS Inc.’s whitepaper comparison of MEMs and quartz crystal when put to the test in real applications.

When you are ready to purchase quartz crystal frequency solutions for your home healthcare applications – and for nearly any industry that requires clocking – get in touch with ECS Inc.’s global list of authorized distributors.

ECS Inc. also provides key support for engineers as they design and innovate. Contact ECS Inc.’s engineering support team when you need guidance, support and even testing for your design.

ECS Inc. seeks to build relationships with clients that can benefit the lives of others through the technological solution they create. Therefore, ECS Inc. looks forward to continuing to deliver extraordinary solutions for healthcare and medicine because of the impact these industries make on human health.

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