Cochlear implants and wireless connectivity Inner-core Connectivity cradling into the 2.4 GHz Arena

Abstract

From the advent of simple hearing aids to modern cochlear implants the attempt to restore the human sense of hearing has shown significant progress. Modern cochlear implants and their coupled speech processors enable recipients with hearing loss regain the ability to listen to the world around them. An interesting new feature that is available in new newest speech processors offered by the leading companies in cochlear implants is connectivity through the 2.4 GHz band commonly used in Wi-Fi routers and Bluetooth devices and other wireless connectivity applications. In this paper we provide an overview of cochlear implants as well as the new functions that are available through the use of wireless connectivity.