Oliver Storz
Research Interests: Summary
My work has mostly been performed under a single overarching theme: issues preventing large-scale deployments of ubiquitous computing technologies. From October 2002 to September 2004 I was a member of the Equator/MIAS Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration “Grid Based Medical Devices For Everyday Health”. The project investigated the challenge of integrating resource-limited devices, such as sensors, into the Grid fabric. The scenario used foresaw a combination of low-cost wearable sensing devices that could be used to unobtrusively monitor patients’ vital signals on a continuous basis, with a Grid-based back-end that would be responsible for storing and processing the collected data. Using this back-end, data could be made accessible to Grid-based healthcare professionals, e.g. to monitor the progress of treatment. The project produced a demonstrator showing a complete end-to-end solution, including a wearable jacket with integrated medical sensors, a gateway component that was used to enable bi-directional communication between the wirelessly connected sensor jacket and the Grid fabric, a storage back-end responsible for archiving received data, feature detection and processing entities that could, for example be used to detect if a person had fallen down, and a graphical front-end that could be used by practitioners to monitor and analyse the collected data. Within the project, I was responsible for designing and engineering all aspects of communication between the sensor platform and the Grid fabric. For further details see Mobile Medical Monitoring. |