Reliable Software Development in a Vital Signs Monitoring System
Diogo Barbosa Martins · 2009
Health Care is in constant evolution and, currently, diverse computer systems are being largely used to help Physicians doing their work. A concrete example is the vital signs monitoring area where recent products using the latest technologies as low-cost sensors, wireless communications, mobile devices and web-based applications, are being commercialized and constantly improved. This document presents a study about the technologies used to build monitoring systems. The objective is to develop a reliable system able to detect a possible death or disaster. A functional prototype, composed by a monitoring and a control part, is described. The monitoring part is the subject of this thesis. Software analysis and design has the biggest focus, but attending to the project’s interdisciplinary characteristics, other fields of study, such as Electronics and Medicine, are explored. The objective is the understanding of future improvements and extensions that the monitoring system might have.