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 The world's first digital mini receiver for hearing aids took home first prize in this year's Embedded Award. The winner will weigh only one gram.
Halmstad Company Comfort Audio has developed a small receiver that can make life easier for people using hearing aids.
Very fun to be a winner. Our job is otherwise make hearing the winner in that they can cope with school and work, says August Pansell, development manager at the company.
A problem for the hearing impaired is that hearing aids also reinforces
distracting background noise. Then it can be difficult to perceive the
teacher in the classroom or colleague in the conference room.
Therefore, many using a wireless microphone placed near the speaker and a
receiver that connects to the hearing aid. This is the receiver that
the company has managed to shrink substantially.
According to Comfort Audio is innovation, which was launched last
summer, the world's first digital mini receiver for hearing aids. It
weighs just one gram, and can be connected directly to the hearing aid
behind the ear.
The sound is cleaner and less interference. Furthermore, the more
subtle compared to recipients that you carry in a loop around the neck,
said August Pansell.
Embedded Prize in the Student class also went to Halmstad and the
invention CACC, Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control, a system that
enables vehicles to communicate with each other to create a smoother
traffic flow.
Halmstad topped the podium in last year. Then the price of the business
category to Tamperseal for a system that verifies that a product is not
altered in transit.
Why are you so successful in embedded systems in Halmstad?
It may be that there is no big business here. Skilled engineers who
want to be creative may choose to become entrepreneurs instead, says
August Pansell.
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