Mobile devices in diagnostic systems
A. Cholewa · 2012
The strong growth of mobile technologies with increasing quality and data rates encourage the use of mobile terminals for diagnostic purposes. It concerns the diagnostics of simple objects for everyday use as well as complex objects that often belong to a group of machines called critical objects. There is no doubt that such solutions will be expected by the operators of machinery and equipment in the near future. Solutions based on mobile technologies require appropriate preparation of diagnostic mobile applications in many aspects. The reasonable implementation of mobile devices forces the application designer to solve at least two difficult tasks. The first task relates to the design of user interface functionality and shape, taking into account a number of existing constraints, such as the screen size of mobile device, performance of the unit, applied data transmission technology and a quality of secure data channel in a mobile network. The second task is associated with the selection of optimal technology used to operate in mobile environment with detailed substantiation of the decision. The aim of this paper is to describe the basic principles which should guide the implementation of solutions enabling the user wireless access to diagnostic data of a technical object. Also basic requirements for well-designed user interface of the mobile application will be given in the paper.