Bob. Have you thought about creating an app to control the device? Would you be interested in making one? If so, please let me know as I’m an active user but also an experienced App developer. Would love totalk about what it would take. I think there would be a big market for this and improve your already excellent product.
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As an EMF-sensitive human: Please NO APP, because this means Bluetooth and the like. I see this in a lot of “health” products and this gives me chills - all the time.
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@sikram2002 and @hcf,
I see the point @hcf is making and I have had similar concerns.
And I do appreciate your kind offer @sikram2002
I have given this a lot of thought for about the past 12 or 13 years, and many people have requested an app-enabled ICES-PEMF device, and I have done some initial design and evaluation work on this. I conclude that an app may sell more product, but it does so because at this time some people are a bit app-crazed. I use apps all the time, but only when they really add value. And I don’t think an app would add a lot of value to ICES-PEMF devices at this time.
Mostly this is a human factors issue. Basically, for ICES-PEMF, most people just set it up once, then never make a change. They do not frequently interact with the ICES-PEMF device. And believe it or not, some people just use the device as it is set up on delivery, and never change it. This is about 20 to 25% of our customers: they never make a single change. They never interact with the device other than to change batteries and turn it ON or OFF.
So, I calculated the additional power consumption for the necessary BLE hardware, the additional microprocessor power that would be required, etc. the impact on the current products in terms of increased hardware cost, cost of maintaining software compatibility cross-platform and in subsequent OS releases, etc.
The final decision was that an app + bluetooth does not make a lot of sense for the type of product ICES-PEMF is and the needs and use patterns of our customers. Some companies sell PEMF with an app, sure. And it probably bumps their sales a bit too. But this is entirely a marketing strategy, and adds nothing to the core technology IMO.
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I think this is very important!
To pair a mobile phone, access the app, fizzle around with the app would not be of value and complicate things. This would also be a negative in cases where some caretaker has to setup an ICES with an older person or some non-tech person, like my wife, had to use ICES. The clicking through 15 power levels and 30 programs may be PITA, but is “brutal simple”! Could not have come up with a more simple thing.
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