U-Healthcare Service Based on a USN Middleware Platform and Medical Device Communication Framework

Abstract

AbstractWe developed a middleware platform, i.e. COSMOS (Common System for Middleware of Sensor Network), for several types of sensor networks including the Zigbee wireless sensor network, the CDMA cellular phone-based network, the RFID reader-based network and the IP-USN based on 6LowPAN. Development has been focused on interfaces for application programs as well as on sensor network abstractions for various ubiquitous sensor networks (USN). Standard interfaces were defined between the USN middleware and USN networks as well as application services. We studied several USN services including u-Healthcare to examine important issues about middleware platform for integrating with other standardized communication framework, e.g. a medical device communication framework. We introduce application services and the real-time data analysis for QoS in the u-healthcare service.