Design of a Healthcare Sensor Managing System for Vital Sign Measuring Devices

In this paper, we present a healthcare sensor managing system that manages healthcare sensor devices in a distributed environment. It is an independent system, but can cooperate by wireless communication with client systems, such as robots and smart phones. We have designed five key concepts of our sensor managing system including plug and play, status managing, scheduling of requests, expandability, and compatibility. We have developed a sensor managing system based on our design concepts, and applied this system to a healthcare application. It consists of three parts: a healthcare robot system, a sensor manager system, and sensor device systems. It can be applied in various use case scenarios for heterogeneous devices, between single and multiple clients. To verify the efficiency of our system, we report functionality experiments focusing on each of the five key concepts.

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