AMBIENT HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS - Using the Hydra Embedded Middleware for Implementing an Ambient Disease Management System
Heinz-Josef Eikerling, Gernot Gräfe, Florian Röhr, Walter Schneider · 2009
Abstract: Healthcare is an important aspect of ambient life. As the life expectation increases and thus diseases statistically become more frequent, the high-quality and cost-effective management of such diseases becomes a societal task. Within this paper we examine issues and requirements stemming from the implementation of disease management systems. Such systems critically depend on acceptance, cost-efficiency and other criteria that – through those requirements – are addressed by the Hydra multi-domain middleware. Hydra aims at the seamless integration of embedded systems such as bio-medical sensors and other domain-specific and generic equipment. We motivate and demonstrate the use of the middleware in the healthcare sector by means of a disease management system relying on the easy integration and proper configurability of applications running on the included measuring and controlling devices. 1