title: SLIM: a Secured Lightweight Interactive Middleware for wireless body area network.
abstract: Advances in wireless sensor technology have introduced a new dimension in healthcare computing. With miniaturized sensor devices, continuous medical monitoring of patients to detect transient life threatening conditions from daily activities has been made possible. This phenomenon will certainly improve the quality of life for a majority of people. However, the growing variety of sensor devices in the market, has made application developments very challenging. In light of this view, we are proposing SLIM, a lightweight middleware that shields the underlying differences in sensor technology from the application layer. SLIM is designed to simplify/accelerate application development while not simply providing common middleware functions (i.e. data acquisition and plug-and-play capability) but also others like security and interactive features. To support both indoor and outdoor activities, SLIM is built to reside on mobile devices. At the end of the paper, we will show the prototype of the proposed middleware including its functionalities when used with a mobile application.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore. awaluyo@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
authors.forename: Agustinus Borgy
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Waluyo
authors.forename: Isaac
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pek
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Wee-Soon
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Yeoh
mesh_terms: D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016494:Computer Security; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data