The integration of wireless communication applications combined with the flexibility and computational power of new chip designs has created a huge opportunity in terms of the solutions that can now be offered to hearing impaired people so that they truly have hearing systems, not just hearing instruments.

The CORE platform is the chip at the center of Phonak’s latest generation of hearing systems which has allowed huge progress to be made in wireless communication technology. A HiBAN (hearing instrument body area network) integrates a variety of accessories and two hearing instruments to form a wireless network. This wireless network has made it possible to introduce exciting new applications and solutions for customers listening needs, the first of which were introduced with Exélia and Naída. Since then, Phonak has continued to develop the HiBAN so we can now offer more benefits to wearers of hearing instruments.