SECO S.p.A.: Medical & Laboratory Technology

Challenges in the market

Increased barriers and country-specific requirements delay market approval while innovation pressure mounts for biocompatible materials and coatings. Technological complexity, including device compatibility and interoperability, adds challenges, alongside ensuring the long-term availability of key components.

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Accelerate time to market with pre-tested, customisable modular components and prototyping. Benefit from certified coating for clinically clean interfaces, IoT connectivity, and Medical Area Safety-compliant designs with FuSa functions. Enjoy low maintenance, energy efficiency, and 10+ years of product availability.

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Highest possible quality and guaranteed operation

Medical equipment must always be able to run, even under the most unfavorable conditions. For this purpose, flawless operation should be made possible even under unforeseen circumstances.

With devices' growing complexity and systems' increasing connectivity, the risk of unwanted failures increases.

Intuitive design and handling

Medical device handling and visualization should be user-oriented so that more time can be spent with the patient. If a medical device does not meet these requirements, valuable seconds can be lost in an emergency.

This also applies to the presentation of live medical data: if the presentation needs to be recognizable and serves diagnostic purposes, the purpose of the user interface has been missed.

Increasing complexity of medical data

Modern medical devices are capable of collecting large volumes of data about a patient. This data is extremely sensitive but more usable if it is professionally processed.

Processing requires a lot of manual work without an appropriate technical solution. The solution to this can be artificial intelligence. SECO offers an AI-based solution where the data remains under your control, while an AI application orchestrates the data and creates insights.

Highlight technologies for medical and laboratory technology

SOM-SMARC-EHL

Technical features:

Equipped with Intel® Atom® x6000E series and Intel® Pentium® and Celeron® N- and J-series processors (formerly Elkhart Lake)
Video resolution up to 4096x2160 @60Hz
Extensive connection options

In the field:

First SMARC board specially developed for applications with functional safety (FuSa)
Intel Safety Island enables secure emergency operation in case of failures

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SOM-COMe-CT6-EHL

Technical features:

COM Express® 3.1 Type 6 Compact Module with Intel® Atom® x6000E Series, Intel® Pentium® and Celeron® N and J Series Processors
DP 1.4, HDMI 1.4 & eDP 1.3: up to 4096x2160@60 Hz; LVDS: up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz
Extensive connectivity options

In the field:

Real-time processing on a cost-effective and energy-saving platform
FuSa support

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SOM-SMARC-Genio700

Technical features:

SMARC® Rel. 2.1.1 module equipped with new MediaTek Genio 700
Octacore ARM processor enables highest performance with low power consumption
Supports Dual Display up to 4K

In the field:

For fanless designs that place high demands on graphics or AI performance
Camera interface with integrated ISP
AI acceleration

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Start a new era in medical technology with SECO

Fast Design and Prototyping Processing

In medical technology, a mature product architecture is the success factor for the implementation of an advanced and safe medical product. We support you in the development with our proven prototype concept: after just a few weeks, we deliver the first prototype to our customers. In doing so, the SECO embedded solution focuses on a modular and simple structure so that the complexity of the technology in the final product does not increase the risk of unexpected failures.

At the same time, SECO attaches importance to keeping all embedded development processes in its own hands and always pushing a design-to-manufacturing practice.

Security on every millimetre of hardware

SECO puts great effort into complying with medical regulations and quality standards when implementing medical projects. SECO carries out an integrated quality management following ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001: 20015 and manufactures at the Arezzo site in Italy in compliance with ISO 13485:2016.

To always ensure safe operations and thus keep maintenance costs low, SECO increasingly uses modules with FuSa functions (functional safety). This guarantees safe emergency operation of the system in the event of irregularities. Modules with FuSa functions have a mode that intervenes immediately in the event of irregularities during regular operation and thus does not pose a risk to patients.

Exploit the potential of AI in production

Using modules with FuSa (Functional Safety) functions opens up new possibilities for safety and collaborative work. Combined with AI, FuSa can be taken to a new level of human-machine interaction through pose estimation, gesture control or even voice control. SECO’s FuSa-capable module HALLEY was developed precisely for application scenarios: If irregularities arise in regular operation or a defined gesture is registered, HALLEY immediately switches to a secure operation or stops the process.

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Cooperation of doctors and AI

Artificial intelligence will not replace doctors or laboratory technicians but will provide significant support in their work. In the future, AI applications will take over tasks that can be automated and serve as a decision-making aid for specialists. AI will also support doctors in detecting abnormalities in healthy patients. This can shorten or even close the diagnostic gap. Basic technological conditions must be created for these upcoming scenarios.

SECO offers comprehensive solutions to already orchestrate medical data and generate insights from it. Likewise, all sensitive data remains under the control of the medical professionals and the patient.

More complexity and connectivity

Systems communicating with each other are already not uncommon. As long as the systems are proprietary, this does not pose a challenge. However, in reality, systems from different manufactures are used. On the other hand, many solutions are far from connectivity. In the future, more and more devices will exchange data in real-time with protected cloud systems.

The challenge here is to build a secure and stable data pipeline as well as an orchestration that processes data in the device and the cloud. SECO offers extensive possibilities for building data pipelines and AI-based edge solutions.