SBIR/STTR Research Award
Connectivity to Modern Electronics for the Hearing Disabled
Award amount
$75,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Education
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- ADVANCED MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CORP
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- GJ1KBJPEZL52
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
This project creates a wireless solution for interconnecting hearing aids with consumerelectronic devices based on a new, ultra-low-power radio specifically developed by project partnerIntriCon Corporation (St. Paul, MN), for use in micro-behind-the-ear (Micro-BTE) hearing aids. Thesmall consumer electronics add-on module, with greater than 100-hour battery life from a standardzinc-air hearing aid battery, can directly communicate with micro-BTE hearing aids. It allows for theuse of wireless technology and provides a connectivity solution that has many advantages over othercurrent solutions. The result is a module (audio digitizer and transmitter module) compatible withnearly all future wireless hearing aids. This new module allows hearing aid users to receive highqualitysound data directly from such items as cell phones, televisions, computers, digital audio players,and classroom public announcement systems.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
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Research funding history
138 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1994–2024). Reported award amounts total $61,745,451. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation