Handhelds for Health

Mobile Solutions for Disease Surveillance & Public Health

SIMPUTER

Three of Encore's core team were founding members of the Simputer Trust and co-inventors of the original Simputer™. Encore, as also one of the manufacturing licencees, has made significant enhances to the original platform.

The Simputer family of products caters to a broad range of mobile computing applications that require the high mobility of a PDA with advanced features such as a Smart-card reader/writer. The embedded appliance is a PDA form-factor device built around modular hardware architecture and an open-source software architecture that provides easy extensibility and customizability for target applications.

Some typical application areas for the Simputer are:

Mobile Health-care, Tele-medicine, Disease Surveillance Systems
Mobile Sales Force Automation & Enterprise Applications
GPS-assisted Navigation and Asset Tracking
GPS-GIS enabled applications
Education
E-Governance Applications

CPU	Intel PXA255 @200 MHz
Memory	64 MB of SDRAM 32 MB NOR Flash
Display Device	240x320 pixel resolution, 3.5” TFT LCD, 64K Colours, LED Backlight
Input Device	Touch tablet overlay on LCD for Pen Stylus
Built-in Peripherals	Audio Codec with speakers & microphone Smart Card Reader/Writer 1 USB Host Port Real-time Clock
Connectivity options	USB Host Port
Connector Dongle	External Dongle with standard connectors for USB Slave Port Serial Port [DB9]
Power Supply	Li-Ion re-chargeable Battery External AC Adapter [Universal Input]

Operating Environment	GNU/Linux Kernel 2.4.x J2ME [CDC]
Networking	TCP/IP protocols and applications telnet, ssh, ftp, dhcp, http, openssl
Device Management	Local device management utilities
Desktop	GPE Desktop and Applications
Internet Access	Email Client Web Browser
PC Sync	PC-to-Tablet Synchronization Software
Others	Database Package Manager, Platform Libraries Media Player, Flash Player

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