SuperSonic Imagine Deploys PTC’s ThingWorx for Remote Monitoring and Service of Medical Imaging Devices

ThingWorx Enables Predictive Alerts to Smart, Connected Imaging Devices. PTC today announced that SuperSonic Imagine, a company in breakthrough ultrasound medical imaging devices, has deployed PTC’s ThingWorx® Industrial IoT Platform for the remote monitoring and service of its market-leading patient diagnostic devices. Founded in 2005 and based in Aix-en-Provence, France, SuperSonic Imagine manufactures the flagship Aixplorer® series, innovative ultrasound platforms, which feature the exclusive UltraFast™ technology. UltraFast™ has given rise to new imaging modes, such as ShearWave® Elastography (SWE), which allows users to view and measure tissue stiffness in real-time on a color map, setting the standards of care for non-invasive characterization of breast, liver, and prostate diseases. This fall, SuperSonic Imagine unveiled the smart, connected Aixplorer MACH 30, its first product supported by ThingWorx. Using SuperSonic Imagine’s unique technology, the Aixplorer MACH 30 includes a new generation of UltraFast™ imaging, a technology that enables acquisition rates 200 times faster than conventional ultrasound systems with innovative modes to enhance diagnostic performance. Aixplorer MACH 30 also features a new concept in ultrasound, the revolutionary SonicPad™, designed to enhance the user’s intuitive control of the functions needed during an examination, improving both user comfort and exam efficiency. ThingWorx will enable remote monitoring of the Aixplorer MACH 30 devices in the field to maximize uptime, increase the stability of the platform, and avoid patient care disruptions.