BARCO Launches PIN Concept for Ambient Intelligence in Softcopy Reading Environment
CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA - BarcoView announces PIN, a revolutionary integrated Product Intelligence concept, which ensures worry-free diagnostic reading and image distribution, by means of ’intelligent’ medical display technology. The system’s intelligence creates a smart background, which offers radiologists and administrators professional comfort by bridging the gap between people and technology.
Paul Matthijs, General Manager Medical Imaging Systems, states: ’Barco’s PIN creates ambient intelligence by setting up a smart prescient environment, thereby achieving worry-free filmless perfection.’ Moreover, Matthijs points out: ’Barco’s innovative PIN concept drastically reduces lifecycle cost, even up to 80% for digital display systems.’ Barco’s product range for PACS includes LCD and CRT medical displays, display controllers and QA and display management software. These PIN-compatible products form a distributed network of web-enabled, intelligent devices, which constantly monitor diagnostic image quality. Barco’s display systems have embedded intelligence through the I-GUARD® sensor for LCD display systems, and WAVE II functionalities for CRT display systems. I-GUARD® and WAVE II are smart sensoring devices, constantly monitoring image quality. Data from these smart sensors are processed and logged with the MEDICAL® and SENTINEL® software. Supported by this integrated technology and vast knowledgebase, Barco’s PIN concept automatically ensures high-level diagnostic quality. The surrounding network of invisible, intelligent devices offers administrators the advantage of being informed about the display system’s consistent quality on a continuous basis. In case the imaging chain fails, administrators can intervene from their own location via a user-friendly web inter, without disturbing normal radiology activities.
