With the release of the new DECS platform, Bernafon is happy to offer a number of new wireless connectivity options to end users. Several manufacturers have declined to submit overviews and it is suggested that the interested reader contact the hearing aid manufacturers directly for more information. In this issue of Canadian Audiologist we have invited all of the hearing aid manufacturers to submit short overviews of their products and how they can be controlled with smartphone and app use. It does however allow the user to have as little or as much control over their hearing aids as they desire, or are capable of. Nor does it optimize the hearing aid for listening to high level signals such as music and the hard of hearing user’s own voice. Increasing the RF to the 2.4 GHz region does not have any implications for frequency response, or speed of the processing algorithms.
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Apple iOS and Android smartphones can now be used to communicate with the hearing aids using company specific apps that range from simple volume controls to equalizers that can alter the frequency response and to programs that can be implemented for noisy environments and in most cases, musical ones as well. With the 2.4 GHz RF standard, streamers can be a thing of the past- now the transmission can go directly to the hearing aid, or from one side of the wearer to the other side hearing aid.Īnd with the higher 2.4 GHz RF transmission we can now control the hearing aids with any number of external devices that need not be proprietary. And it can be so small that even CIC hearing aids can have direct Blue Tooth and other RF transmission without the need for an external streamer. With the recent change from the 700 MHz RF range to the new 2.4 GHz RF range, the antenna can be very small indeed. Higher frequency RF only required a relatively small antenna to receive the signal. I recall that one of the first things I ever learned in kindergarten was that the antenna length is inversely proportional to the RF transmission frequency. The following has been coordinated by Marshall Chasin, Editor-in-Chief