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S. Mohr - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • plug care connector a middleware to reduce costs and create platform independence in telemonitoring programs
    2012
    Co-Authors: Markus Lindlar, Doreen Seider, S. Mohr
    Abstract:

    Connectivity is a problem in telemedicine. Data has to be acquired from devices and transferred to the recipient. In europe at present telemonitoring programs especially focus on home monitoring. Only few of these projects support patient’s mobility. The technical setup in these projects usually requires identical devices for all participating patients. This applies to the communication device (e.g. a mobile phone or smart phone) and the medical device (e.g. a Blood Pressure Meter) as well. To be able to use these devices patients have to be trained as well. Furthermore on travel patients use and carry their own phone containing all their contacts and further data. The idea of the Plug&Care-Connector (PCC) is to provide a technology that enables service providers to reduce costs in mobile or home monitoring setups. It’s a Java-based middleware for different operating systems like Android, Windows Mobile, PC-Windows, Apple-OS or Linux. The PCC consists of a core application designed for each of the mentioned operating systems. It abstracts the platforms interface medical devices connect to presenting one identical interface. Thus device manufacturers only need to develop one PCC-driver to be able to connect to all supported platforms. Patients are able to use their (PCC-compatible) smart phone or PC they are familiar with when participating in a telemonitoring program. If their medical device is PCC-compatible as well they can use it too. This can reduce technology costs significantly and can increase patient’s compliance as well. Furthermore the Plug&Care-Connector supports so called transmitters. Transmitters are plug-ins for the connector responsible to forward the acquired data of the medical device. Transmitters can easily be written using our developer guide. Transmitters hand over the data or to apps running locally (e.g. diabetes diaries) or forward it to remote recipients. Various messaging services and export to data bases and patient records are supported. The first version will be provided in the Android-market. We will test the Plug&Care-Connector with Diabetes patients within the EU-AAL-project EmotionAAL in Finland and Germany in early 2012.

  • Plug&Care Connector Extending care to the mobile society
    2011
    Co-Authors: Doreen Seider, Markus Lindlar, S. Mohr
    Abstract:

    INTRODUCTION The development of a platform independent middleware for smart-phones and desktop computers, the so called Plug&Care connector, has been performed by DLR within the EU-AAL-Projekt “The EmotionAAL Village”. The Connector tends to simplify the setup of static and mobile monitoring networks. DESCRIPTION The technical innovation is a middleware for well established operating systems of present smart phones and desktop computers. This middleware provides a communication framework to connect different kind of devices with various service backends. Therefore, it has a plugin concept for the integration of protocols used by the devices and services. Hereby, the protocol plugins do not need to care about platform-dependent characteristics like the implementation of the Bluetooth stack. The Plug&Care-Connector is responsible of the abstraction of any hardware and OS layer. Thus manufacturers have to develop just one single plugin to attach their device to many of the available smart phones or desktop computers and to connect it to any of the service backends for which plugins for the Connector are implemented. In the medical scenario of EmotionAAL the data is transferred by an external device, e.g. a Blood glucose Meter, to the Plug&Care-Connector. The Connector sends the data to all medical service centers which are represented as plugins in the Connector and which registered for the captured measurement type. Next to this data forwarding the Plug&Care-Connector provides access to the data for local apps, The Plug&Care-Connector is not restricted to medical setups. Further application areas like the fitness sector, clinical studies or technical environments are imaginable. The Plug&Care-Connector can reduce costs and increase user acceptance as patients or other users can continue to use their own smart phones. Up to now connectors have been developed for Google’s Android operating system, for Microsofts Windows Mobile 6.5 and for Java environments on PCs. Drivers are available for one Blood glucose Meter, a body scales and a Blood Pressure Meter.

Doreen Seider - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • plug care connector a middleware to reduce costs and create platform independence in telemonitoring programs
    2012
    Co-Authors: Markus Lindlar, Doreen Seider, S. Mohr
    Abstract:

    Connectivity is a problem in telemedicine. Data has to be acquired from devices and transferred to the recipient. In europe at present telemonitoring programs especially focus on home monitoring. Only few of these projects support patient’s mobility. The technical setup in these projects usually requires identical devices for all participating patients. This applies to the communication device (e.g. a mobile phone or smart phone) and the medical device (e.g. a Blood Pressure Meter) as well. To be able to use these devices patients have to be trained as well. Furthermore on travel patients use and carry their own phone containing all their contacts and further data. The idea of the Plug&Care-Connector (PCC) is to provide a technology that enables service providers to reduce costs in mobile or home monitoring setups. It’s a Java-based middleware for different operating systems like Android, Windows Mobile, PC-Windows, Apple-OS or Linux. The PCC consists of a core application designed for each of the mentioned operating systems. It abstracts the platforms interface medical devices connect to presenting one identical interface. Thus device manufacturers only need to develop one PCC-driver to be able to connect to all supported platforms. Patients are able to use their (PCC-compatible) smart phone or PC they are familiar with when participating in a telemonitoring program. If their medical device is PCC-compatible as well they can use it too. This can reduce technology costs significantly and can increase patient’s compliance as well. Furthermore the Plug&Care-Connector supports so called transmitters. Transmitters are plug-ins for the connector responsible to forward the acquired data of the medical device. Transmitters can easily be written using our developer guide. Transmitters hand over the data or to apps running locally (e.g. diabetes diaries) or forward it to remote recipients. Various messaging services and export to data bases and patient records are supported. The first version will be provided in the Android-market. We will test the Plug&Care-Connector with Diabetes patients within the EU-AAL-project EmotionAAL in Finland and Germany in early 2012.

  • Plug&Care Connector Extending care to the mobile society
    2011
    Co-Authors: Doreen Seider, Markus Lindlar, S. Mohr
    Abstract:

    INTRODUCTION The development of a platform independent middleware for smart-phones and desktop computers, the so called Plug&Care connector, has been performed by DLR within the EU-AAL-Projekt “The EmotionAAL Village”. The Connector tends to simplify the setup of static and mobile monitoring networks. DESCRIPTION The technical innovation is a middleware for well established operating systems of present smart phones and desktop computers. This middleware provides a communication framework to connect different kind of devices with various service backends. Therefore, it has a plugin concept for the integration of protocols used by the devices and services. Hereby, the protocol plugins do not need to care about platform-dependent characteristics like the implementation of the Bluetooth stack. The Plug&Care-Connector is responsible of the abstraction of any hardware and OS layer. Thus manufacturers have to develop just one single plugin to attach their device to many of the available smart phones or desktop computers and to connect it to any of the service backends for which plugins for the Connector are implemented. In the medical scenario of EmotionAAL the data is transferred by an external device, e.g. a Blood glucose Meter, to the Plug&Care-Connector. The Connector sends the data to all medical service centers which are represented as plugins in the Connector and which registered for the captured measurement type. Next to this data forwarding the Plug&Care-Connector provides access to the data for local apps, The Plug&Care-Connector is not restricted to medical setups. Further application areas like the fitness sector, clinical studies or technical environments are imaginable. The Plug&Care-Connector can reduce costs and increase user acceptance as patients or other users can continue to use their own smart phones. Up to now connectors have been developed for Google’s Android operating system, for Microsofts Windows Mobile 6.5 and for Java environments on PCs. Drivers are available for one Blood glucose Meter, a body scales and a Blood Pressure Meter.

Markus Lindlar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • plug care connector a middleware to reduce costs and create platform independence in telemonitoring programs
    2012
    Co-Authors: Markus Lindlar, Doreen Seider, S. Mohr
    Abstract:

    Connectivity is a problem in telemedicine. Data has to be acquired from devices and transferred to the recipient. In europe at present telemonitoring programs especially focus on home monitoring. Only few of these projects support patient’s mobility. The technical setup in these projects usually requires identical devices for all participating patients. This applies to the communication device (e.g. a mobile phone or smart phone) and the medical device (e.g. a Blood Pressure Meter) as well. To be able to use these devices patients have to be trained as well. Furthermore on travel patients use and carry their own phone containing all their contacts and further data. The idea of the Plug&Care-Connector (PCC) is to provide a technology that enables service providers to reduce costs in mobile or home monitoring setups. It’s a Java-based middleware for different operating systems like Android, Windows Mobile, PC-Windows, Apple-OS or Linux. The PCC consists of a core application designed for each of the mentioned operating systems. It abstracts the platforms interface medical devices connect to presenting one identical interface. Thus device manufacturers only need to develop one PCC-driver to be able to connect to all supported platforms. Patients are able to use their (PCC-compatible) smart phone or PC they are familiar with when participating in a telemonitoring program. If their medical device is PCC-compatible as well they can use it too. This can reduce technology costs significantly and can increase patient’s compliance as well. Furthermore the Plug&Care-Connector supports so called transmitters. Transmitters are plug-ins for the connector responsible to forward the acquired data of the medical device. Transmitters can easily be written using our developer guide. Transmitters hand over the data or to apps running locally (e.g. diabetes diaries) or forward it to remote recipients. Various messaging services and export to data bases and patient records are supported. The first version will be provided in the Android-market. We will test the Plug&Care-Connector with Diabetes patients within the EU-AAL-project EmotionAAL in Finland and Germany in early 2012.

  • Plug&Care Connector Extending care to the mobile society
    2011
    Co-Authors: Doreen Seider, Markus Lindlar, S. Mohr
    Abstract:

    INTRODUCTION The development of a platform independent middleware for smart-phones and desktop computers, the so called Plug&Care connector, has been performed by DLR within the EU-AAL-Projekt “The EmotionAAL Village”. The Connector tends to simplify the setup of static and mobile monitoring networks. DESCRIPTION The technical innovation is a middleware for well established operating systems of present smart phones and desktop computers. This middleware provides a communication framework to connect different kind of devices with various service backends. Therefore, it has a plugin concept for the integration of protocols used by the devices and services. Hereby, the protocol plugins do not need to care about platform-dependent characteristics like the implementation of the Bluetooth stack. The Plug&Care-Connector is responsible of the abstraction of any hardware and OS layer. Thus manufacturers have to develop just one single plugin to attach their device to many of the available smart phones or desktop computers and to connect it to any of the service backends for which plugins for the Connector are implemented. In the medical scenario of EmotionAAL the data is transferred by an external device, e.g. a Blood glucose Meter, to the Plug&Care-Connector. The Connector sends the data to all medical service centers which are represented as plugins in the Connector and which registered for the captured measurement type. Next to this data forwarding the Plug&Care-Connector provides access to the data for local apps, The Plug&Care-Connector is not restricted to medical setups. Further application areas like the fitness sector, clinical studies or technical environments are imaginable. The Plug&Care-Connector can reduce costs and increase user acceptance as patients or other users can continue to use their own smart phones. Up to now connectors have been developed for Google’s Android operating system, for Microsofts Windows Mobile 6.5 and for Java environments on PCs. Drivers are available for one Blood glucose Meter, a body scales and a Blood Pressure Meter.

Kalyan Pathapati Subbu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • cuffless differential Blood Pressure estimation using smart phones
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2013
    Co-Authors: Vikram Chandrasekara, Ram Dantu, Srikanth Jonnada, Shanti R Thiyagaraja, Kalyan Pathapati Subbu
    Abstract:

    Smart phones today have become increasingly popular with the general public for their diverse functionalities such as navigation, social networking, and multimedia facilities. These phones are equipped with high-end processors, high-resolution cameras, and built-in sensors such as acceleroMeter, orientation-sensor, and light-sensor. According to comScore survey, 26.2% of U.S. adults use smart phones in their daily lives. Motivated by this statistic and the diverse capability of smart phones, we focus on utilizing them for biomedical applications. We present a new application of the smart phone with its built-in camera and microphone replacing the traditional stethoscope and cuff-based measurement technique, to quantify vital signs such as heart rate and Blood Pressure. We propose two differential Blood Pressure estimating techniques using the heartbeat and pulse data. The first method uses two smart phones whereas the second method replaces one of the phones with a customized external microphone. We estimate the systolic and diastolic Pressure in the two techniques by computing the pulse Pressure and the stroke volume from the data recorded. By comparing the estimated Blood Pressure values with those measured using a commercial Blood Pressure Meter, we obtained encouraging results of 95-100% accuracy.

Lindlar Markus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • DLR-Plug&Care-Connector A middleware to permit platform independent medical (tele-)assistance on your smartphone or PC
    2011
    Co-Authors: Lindlar Markus
    Abstract:

    INTRODUCTION The development of a platform independent middleware for smart-phones and desktop computers, the so called Plug&Care connector, has been performed by DLR within the EU-AAL-Projekt “The EmotionAAL Village”. The Connector tends to simplify the setup of static and mobile monitoring networks. DESCRIPTION The technical innovation is a middleware for well established operating systems of present smart phones and desktop computers. This middleware provides a communication framework to connect different kind of devices with various service backends. Therefore, it has a plugin concept for the integration of protocols used by the devices and services. Hereby, the protocol plugins do not need to care about platform-dependent characteristics like the implementation of the Bluetooth stack. The Plug&Care-Connector is responsible of the abstraction of any hardware and OS layer. Thus manufacturers have to develop just one single plugin to attach their device to many of the available smart phones or desktop computers and to connect it to any of the service backends for which plugins for the Connector are implemented. In the medical scenario of EmotionAAL the data is transferred by an external device, e.g. a Blood glucose Meter, to the Plug&Care-Connector. The Connector sends the data to all medical service centers which are represented as plugins in the Connector and which registered for the captured measurement type. Next to this data forwarding the Plug&Care-Connector provides access to the data for local apps, The Plug&Care-Connector is not restricted to medical setups. Further application areas like the fitness sector, clinical studies or technical environments are imaginable. The Plug&Care-Connector can reduce costs and increase user acceptance as patients or other users can continue to use their own smart phones. Up to now connectors have been developed for Google’s Android operating system, for Microsofts Windows Mobile 6.5 and for Java environments on PCs. Drivers are available for one Blood glucose Meter, a body scales and a Blood Pressure Meter