Implementation of a standards-based pulse oximeter on a wearable, embedded platform

Author

Lebak, J.W. ; Yao, J. ; Warren, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

3196

Abstract

This paper addresses software design considerations in implementing the medical information bus (MIB) standard on a wearable pulse oximeter. Underlying hardware constraints greatly influence software operation and performance. This design uses a PIC18 microcontroller with software written in C. A modified version of an MIB software implementation by Alaris medical systems will run on this hardware/software configuration. A hardware prototype has been created, and the underlying software is currently in development.

Keywords

Bluetooth; C language; intelligent sensors; medical computing; medical information systems; microcontrollers; oximetry; prototypes; Alaris medical systems; C software; MIB software implementation; PIC18 microcontroller; embedded platform; hardware prototype; hardware-software configuration; medical information bus standard; standards-based pulse oximeter; wearable platform; Bluetooth; Communication system control; Embedded system; Hardware; Microcontrollers; Object oriented modeling; Pulse amplifiers; Software design; Software standards; Wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7789-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1280822

Filename

1280822