The Open Automation and Control Systems Journal

2015, 7 : 1667-1673
Published online 2015 October 9. DOI: 10.2174/1874444301507011667
Publisher ID: TOAUTOCJ-7-1667

Development of Physiological Parameters Gateway for Medical IOT Ward

He Shi-Lin , Li Bei , Ying Jun , Chen Guang-Fei , Lin Shu-Chao , Zhou Dan and Yu Meng-Sum
Institute of Medical Equipment, Academy of Military Medical Science, Tianjin, China.

ABSTRACT

Internet of things (IOT) gateway is an important part of all kinds of IOT applications within the healthcare industry. To meet the needs from wireless transfer to management of physiological parameters in hospital, a kind of IOT gateway for physiological parameters service is designed. Carrier sensing technology, automatic networking technology, and multi-thread programming technology are adopted to design and manufacture the gateway. A hardware gateway and a physiological parameters gateway server with functions of protocol translation, routing management, and data security control are designed to deal with different needs of the sensor network in the Medical IOT Ward. The physiological parameters gateway, which is the key application device in medical IOT ward, is designed to fulfil intelligent collection and comprehensive convergence of daily physiological parameters. The medical IOT ward simplifies the work of physiological parameters collection which is used to be finished manually, and provides reliable security assurance for the patients’ daily care. It will have a high value in clinical application.

Keywords:

Gateway, healthcare, intelligent monitor, IOT, physiological parameters.