Quectel Children's Hospital
Quectel partners with Fudan University Children Hospital.
mmWave Radar Meets Home Care: Quectel's New Paradigm in Smart Monitoring
Quectel recently partnered with the Children's Hospital of Fudan University and mmWave radar ecosystem players to explore integrated hospital-to-home smart monitoring solutions. This marks a strategic shift for communication module vendors—from connectivity pipes to full-scenario solution providers, blending radar sensing, cellular connectivity, and edge computing to address long-standing privacy and coverage gaps in traditional monitoring.
Why mmWave Radar?
Camera-based home monitoring carries three persistent pain points:
- Privacy barriers: cameras cannot be deployed in bedrooms or bathrooms
- Coverage blind spots: critical events like falls or respiratory distress often occur outside camera view
- Response latency: cloud-dependent video analysis introduces delays in emergency scenarios
mmWave radar solves these by emitting electromagnetic waves and analyzing reflected signals to detect human presence, posture, and even respiration and heartbeat—without capturing any image data. Paired with Quectel's 5G or LTE Cat 1 modules, the data flows in real time to hospital systems or family terminals, forming a closed loop of sensing, transmission, and response.
Hospital-to-Home Workflow
What distinguishes Quectel's approach is the bidirectional hospital-home integration:
- In-hospital monitoring: mmWave radar in pediatric wards tracks respiration rate, bed-exit events, with automatic nurse-station alerts
- Post-discharge transition: the same solution extends to the home, with data feeding back into hospital follow-up systems for remote recovery tracking
- Chronic disease management: for elderly patients, radar continuously monitors sleep quality and activity patterns, triggering early warnings on anomaly trends
Quectel provides end-to-end hardware support—from 5G Sub-6GHz and LTE Cat 1 modules to antenna design—lowering integration complexity for solution providers.
Chip Landscape for mmWave Radar Systems
A complete mmWave radar system involves multiple chip categories:
- Radar SoCs: TI IWR6843, Infineon BGT60 series for signal transmission and echo processing
- Communication modules: Quectel RG series (5G) and EG series (LTE) for data transport
- MCUs / edge processors: running lightweight AI models locally (e.g. respiration detection) to reduce cloud reliance
- Power management ICs: meeting strict low-ripple requirements of radar sensors
According to Yole, the automotive and industrial mmWave radar market is projected to surpass $20 billion by 2027. Quectel's move targets the consumer health-monitoring niche, potentially sidestepping head-on competition with TI and Infineon in the automotive radar arena.
HSY Perspective
As Quectel is a key communication module brand represented by HSY, this healthcare expansion merits close attention. For HSY's IoT and medical electronics customers, the mmWave radar plus cellular communication monitoring solution offers a differentiated product direction—enabling nationwide remote monitoring deployment via cellular networks without reliance on WiFi. HSY can provide Quectel 5G/Cat 1 module selection guidance and antenna adaptation support to accelerate rapid prototyping.
Source: PR Newswire, June 4, 2026