Herald Proximity

Herald Proximity open source project. Healthcare Bluetooth solutions. Part of @LFPubHealth.

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

We're proud to announce version 2.2.0 of Herald Proximity has just been released! Lots of reliability and battery use improvements, and a more frequent release cycle now for project improvements. Release details on our website: https://t.co/KRO1AoLeBH

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

Our Founder, @adamfowleruk, is talking about the upcoming Herald Proximity project's V2 wearables at @openuk_uk #SOOCon24 in London from Feb 6-7! Please check it out there. The wearables are currently in Beta testing with the initial hardware being soldered and tested.

[Adam Fowler 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @adamfowleruk]

I'm pleased to announce my talk on the Herald V2 opensource modular wearable platform has been accepted for the Open Hardware track at @openuk_uk State of Open Con 24! #soocon24 Please register for the event on 6-7 Feb 2024. I hope to see you there!

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

We've just submitted a talk from @adamfowleruk to the @openuk_uk State of Open Con 2024 #SOOCon24 #stateofopencon on the new Herald V2 modular opensource wearable! Fingers crossed on approvals! 🤞🤞🤞Hope to see you all in London, UK, in February! (Top tip: Bring a warm jacket!)

[OpenUK @openuk_uk]

📢 Open hardware advocates, unite! 🌍 The Open Hardware Track Call for Papers is your opportunity to share, inspire, and collaborate. Submit before December 1st and be part of the global open hardware movement. 🚀 https://t.co/xErlpIrB8N @allisonrandal @er1p

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

Other IC on the board is the small FTDI chip, allowing I2C-USB data connectivity. No universal flashing of the compute board chip from the connector boards though I'm afraid. That'll have to be done via some clever and as-yet-not-defined @ZephyrIoT driver we need to write.

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

Micro connector for the V2 wearable/beacon/tag - This form factor is for the Bluetooth Mesh / LE interlink nodes, and the equipment-finding long-life tags. It's 1.22x3.15 cm with no expansion board. Total length will be approx 6cm. Width from 0.6-1.3cm. Design by @adamfowleruk

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

This shows the new @NordicTweets nPM1300 PMIC highlighted in green, which is why its so small. They have a smaller version but I doubt I can hand solder that one! @adamfowleruk gained advice from Nordic last week at a UK Tech Tour event, enabling the design to be made.

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

Our Herald V2 wearable / Open Source eHealth wearables Maker's Kit is now in Beta production! Having the PCBs made and then @adamfowleruk will hand solder it (this worked out cheaper!). Just the @NordicTweets nRF52833 based compute board, connector board, & Arm debug boards atm.

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

More work on wearables! Working toward an eHealth Maker's Kit. This will help researchers and commercial companies experiment with how wearables can help improve healthcare delivery. Herald now firmly an eHealth platform and not just for Digital Contact Tracing, its initial use.

[Adam Fowler 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @adamfowleruk]

Today was AGoodDay[tm]! Just finished the initial schematic and PCB layout for the new GNSS (GPS) add-on board for the @HeraldProximity V1 wearable! First time using KiCAD in anger and I think I'm addicted! 🤣 Designs on the WIP feature branch: https://t.co/V25UuFm1Oa

[Adam Fowler 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @adamfowleruk]

Some more good opensource progress for @HeraldProximity using @ZephyrIoT on @NordicTweets nRF52832. Updated the Herald Venue Beacon sample app so devices can be preprogrammed with venue information on flash storage at the same time as flashing the app. No recompile required.

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

Work on Herald for C++ continuing, with new wearable and beacon devices being supported!

[Adam Fowler 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @adamfowleruk]

A much better Open Source day today! Managed to get an Estimote 117 beacon reprogrammed with the @HeraldProximity Venue Beacon app. Programming jig was a big scary though! See attached. Shout out to @openuk_uk too! ❤️

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

Open source hardware as the basis of OS and commercial products has many benefits. It reduces risk of small businesses going bust on early adopters of new tech, it drastically reduces the development costs for all companies adopting the tech, whilst allowing innovation @openuk_uk

[Adam Fowler 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @adamfowleruk]

@evacide Yet another good reason to promote and adopt open source hardware like we create in @HeraldProximity . Ours isn’t for implants, rather wearables, but the principles are the same. Multiple vendors can adopt the same core hardware. Reduces development and compliance costs, & risks.

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

Guess what we're working on for our next release at The Herald Project??? #OpenHealthcare #DigitalContactTracing #ExposureNotification #OpenTrace

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

We plan on releasing an end to end, fully open source, privacy preserving and - crucially - effective and reliable Exposure Notification system under the OpenTrace name in future too. If you want to be part of the journey, please come volunteer! https://t.co/dDmLgruFvB

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

Herald was mentioned in this report from @MITLL . The Herald Project is also the home of the original OpenTrace repositories from @GovTechSG ...

[Adam Fowler 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @adamfowleruk]

@mit's Lincoln Lab @MITLL have released a report I've much anticipated, and also contributed too (as a rep of @LFPubHealth and @HeraldProximity ). It covers a LOT of detail on COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing / Exposure Notification efforts. A must read: https://t.co/y04jlRHv6i

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

Quick poll: If The Herald Project were to release a hackable eHealth wearable hardware kit, and/or Smart Hospitals/Building IoT kit, would you buy such a kit? (Like Raspberry Pi Foundation do for end user computing, but health focused) Please RT @LFPubHealth @openuk_uk

[colabobio @colabobio]

Ben Kresge, Computer Science major @WPI. He has been researching methods to improve distance estimation in the @OOeducation app using Bluetooth proximity data through @HeraldProximity

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

For future Herald news and how Herald can help outside of Pandemic Response, including for Smart Hospitals and Civil Emergency Response, book a spot at @adamfowleruk 's talk at OSS Europe: https://t.co/6ii6tWveSO

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

Great news! A new Herald beta release for iOS!!! Data Analysis API improvements, and laying the groundwork for the future Exposure and Risk API across all platforms!

[Adam Fowler 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @adamfowleruk]

A new preview version of the @HeraldProximity API for iOS is now available! v2.1.0-beta2! You can grab the CocoaPod here: https://t.co/AJLA5JHUta or view the release notes here: https://t.co/FI7wTR3W29

[Herald Proximity @HeraldProximity]

Thanks to the community for making this happen, and to the team at Operation Outbreak for their first accepted Pull Request! https://t.co/N0UWuBVi5E Their app has been Herald Powered for the last year. Definitely check it out!