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News Release from: Flint | Subject: Chas A Blatchford and Sons
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 June 2002
Prosthetic limb application wins smart
card award
Flint, and Chas A Blatchford and Sons, were named as winners of the RNIB Usability Award at the Advanced Card Awards - a gala dinner for the smart card industry.
Flint and Chas A Blatchford and Sons, were named as winners of the RNIB Usability Award at the Advanced Card Awards - a gala dinner for the smart card industry Commenting, Ken Grubb, Marketing Manager, Flint Smart, said, "The award proves, once again, that innovation isn't the sole preserve of large scale users of Smart Cards
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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We congratulate Blatchford on their creative use of the technology - and look forward to working with many other organisations to harness the enormous benefits that Smart Card technology can bring".
"The RNIB Usability Award is designed to make companies such as your own consider the usability aspect of systems design, both for the general public and for people with impaired sight and other disabilities.
We are delighted that to make this award to Blatchford Adaptive Limb because it so clearly meets the objectives of the RNIB Usability Award.
The judges felt that it is an innovative application, which streamlines a complex technical and administrative procedure with benefits both for patients and the health service", said Dr John Gill OBE, Chief Scientist, Royal National Institute of the Blind.
Chas A Blatchford and Sons 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.
Since 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, they not only customised the card with their logo, but also were able to print useful instructions on the reverse of the card, which the patient will keep to hand for easy reference.
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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