DSMS in ubiquitous-healthcare: A Borealis-based heart rate variability monitor

With tremendous research progress in biomedical sensors and sensor networks, there is an increasingly need for employing new data processing technologies that are capable of online analysis of the streaming medical sensor data, which is a typical health monitoring scenario. This paper describes using the data stream management system (DSMS) in developing ubiquitous health monitoring application. We propose the system architecture suitable for simultaneously processing streaming data from heterogeneous sources and performing different monitoring tasks planned by clinicians. A pilot heart rate variability (HRV) monitor with a graphical user interface is developed based on Borealis and several tasks are implemented, including monitoring Rmssd, MeanHR (mean heart rate), and pNN50. Results of the test runs in the lab environment show the usefulness and potential of DSMS in performing intelligent realtime medical data processing.