Web Services to improve interoperability of home healthcare devices

Guido Moritz; Elmar Zeeb; Frank Golatowski; Dirk Timmermann; Regina Stoll

3d International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

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Web Services to improve interoperability of home healthcare devices

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.5944,
    author={Guido Moritz and Elmar Zeeb and Frank Golatowski and Dirk Timmermann and Regina Stoll},
    title={Web Services to improve interoperability of home healthcare devices},
    proceedings={3d International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2009},
    month={8},
    keywords={Web Services for Devices DPWS lwIP 6LoWPAN},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.5944}
}

Guido Moritz
Elmar Zeeb
Frank Golatowski
Dirk Timmermann
Regina Stoll
Year: 2009
Web Services to improve interoperability of home healthcare devices
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.5944

Guido Moritz¹^,*, Elmar Zeeb¹^,*, Frank Golatowski²^,*, Dirk Timmermann¹^,*, Regina Stoll³^,*

1: Institute of Applied Microelectronics and Computer Engineering, University of Rostock, 18055 Rostock, Germany
2: Center for Life Science and Automation, 18119 Rostock, Germany.
3: Institute of Preventive Medicine, University of Rostock, 18055 Rostock, Germany

*Contact email: guido.moritz@uni-rostock.de, elmar.zeeb@uni-rostock.de, frank.golatowski@celisca.de, dirk.timmemann@uni-rostock.de, regina.stoll@uni-rostock.de

Abstract

Home healthcare can be divided into monitoring and assistance scenarios. In both scenarios, miscellaneous devices are applied for dedicated sensor or actuator functionalities. The requirements and assumptions for the different nodes split the devices in three different classes with particular characteristics concerning energy consumption, power supply, memory, computing power, and bandwidth. Nevertheless, the number of nodes and complexity of setups require new concepts like Service-oriented Architectures to solve arising problems. In this paper, the Devices Profile for Web Services is suggested as comprehensive middleware for all three device classes. Hence, Web services technologies, which are already applied in the internet and in automation industry, can avoid interoperability problems of sensors and actors in the domain of home healthcare also.

Keywords: Web Services for Devices DPWS lwIP 6LoWPAN

Published: 2009-08-04

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2009.5944

Web Services to improve interoperability of home healthcare devices

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