Remote medical treatment at home using the Java Mobile Sensor API

Abstract

Since wireless sensor networks are successfully deployed in real life scenarios, applications in medical health-care, structural control, homeland security etc. become feasible. In those envisioned applications, easy maintenance and usability become crucial to staff members, e.g., to doctors or nurses. Not only for widespread distribution of hundreds of sensors, but also in tele-medical applications, remotely-controlled sensing and maintenance without direct access to sensors is required. For this purpose we present a middleware abstraction based on the standard Java Mobile Sensor API (JSR-256). It allows transparent access to sensor measurements, sensor information and maintenance data, which appear as local sensor resources to the user even if the sensors are connected via network. Hence, the user neither requires technical skills nor location information to request sensor data. This paper gives an architectural and functional overview of our middleware within the context of telemedicine. We demonstrate how our middleware approach supports patient monitoring for pre-and post-operative treatment at home.

Mobile Sensing Systems

“…It uses MIDlets to fetch and monitor sensed data from internal and external sensors uniformly. There are several examples of healthcare applications that use JSR256: (a) Remote monitoring of the activity characteristics of elderly patients in home or community sensing using the AS [ 64 ]; (b) determine when the activity of elderly people is being undertaken by a subject carrying the handset and to quantify the activity level [ 65 ] and (c) Accessing external healthcare sensors in the body of patients and reporting the sensed values to a remote telemedicine server [ 66 ]. Cecilio et al [ 67 ] argued that JSR 256 was not appropriate for considering heterogeneous external sensors and did not address the reconfiguration of external interconnected sensor/actuators.…”

Enabling secure and privacy-aware mobile sensing and e-health applications on everybodys smartphone

“…In our system, request are specified using adapted Uniform Resource Indicators (URIs), which we have already introduced in previous work. For details please refer to [10]. The Connection Manager further determines whether requests can be fulfilled or not, depending on the sensors currently available.…”

Wireless Monitoring and Control System Via Android Tablet PC

“…Along with the developing and popularization of wireless communication technology and mobile devices. Using mobile devices to realize wireless remote monitoring and control becomes possible and has vast development space [2][3][4].…”