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News Release from: Flint | Subject: Blatchford smart card
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 June 2001
Flint gives Blatchford a leg up with
smart card
Chas A Blatchford and Sons, the world leader in prosthetic hardware, was the first to order a customised smart card design from Flint Smart's website.
Chas A Blatchford and Sons, the world leader in prosthetic hardware, was the first to order a customised smart card design from Flint Smart's website Memory-based smart cards provide an ideal way for Blatchford to store a backup copy of patient specific setting information associated with its new, top of the range Adaptive artificial leg (www.blatchford.co.uk)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Aug 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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As sales of these very advanced artificial limbs are expected to be in the hundreds per year, Blatchford could normally only have supplied a blank, unprinted smart card.
Using the new Flint online service, however, the company not only customised the card with its logo, but also was able to print useful instructions on the reverse of the card, which the patient will keep to hand for easy reference.
According to Andrew Sykes, Blatchford Project Leader for the Adaptive limb, "Our new limb is a top quality, high performance unit, and presentation is an important issue to us.
Having a clearly identifiable card, which moreover contains additional useful information, makes it much less likely that the patient will mislay the backup information on it".
Blatchford is using a Gemplus memory-only card, with a 256byte data capacity.
The card fits into a JAE connector, which is integral to the programmer unit for the limb.
During a fitting session, the patient is allowed to walk with the limb, and the settings are changed using a short-range radio link from the programmer.
Once the optimum settings have been arrived at, the programmer also stores them onto a smart card, as a backup copy, which the patient keeps.
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