HIP: Health integration platform

This paper introduces a new software development platform specifically designed for wireless health applications. Wireless health applications follow a unique paradigm encompassing body sensor networks. These networks are controlled by a central processing unit (such as a cell phone or PDA) that provides connectivity to health care professionals over a wide area network. With such architectures, health monitoring becomes ubiquitous allowing patients a greater degree of freedom from conventional medical monitoring. This paper introduces HIP - a wireless health integration platform. HIP is a complete end to end software development platform. Wireless Health platforms previous to HIP have two main faults. First, these platforms lack generality and focus on few wireless health components. Second, they offer an extremely rigid platform that is difficult to integrate into preexisting research. HIP addresses these issues by providing a flexible and modularized plug and play architecture that seamlessly integrates into preexisting work.