Research Article
The Need for Standardized Tests to Evaluate the Reliability of Data Transport in Wireless Medical Systems
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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-32778-0_11, author={Helena Fernandez-Lopez and Jos\^{e} Afonso and J. Correia and Ricardo Simoes}, title={The Need for Standardized Tests to Evaluate the Reliability of Data Transport in Wireless Medical Systems}, proceedings={Sensor Systems and Software. Third International ICST Conference, S-Cube 2012, Lisbon, Portugal, June 4-5, 2012, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={S-CUBE}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={eHealth medical data transport communication performance assessment standardized tests wireless biomedical monitoring}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-32778-0_11} }- Helena Fernandez-Lopez
José Afonso
J. Correia
Ricardo Simoes
Year: 2012
The Need for Standardized Tests to Evaluate the Reliability of Data Transport in Wireless Medical Systems
S-CUBE
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32778-0_11
Abstract
Wireless medical systems are comprised of four stages, namely the medical device, the data transport, the data collection and the data evaluation stages. Whereas the performance of the first stage is highly regulated, the others are not. This paper concentrates on the data transport stage and argues that it is necessary to establish standardized tests to be used by medical device manufacturers to provide comparable results concerning the communication performance of the wireless networks used to transport medical data. Besides, it suggests test parameters and procedures to be used to produce comparable communication performance results.
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