On the Development of Pervasive Computing Application in Telemedicine System

Abstract

This paper describes the development of pervasive computing application implemented in Smart Tele-medicine System as part of the researches done in University Malaysia Sabah in order to deliver medical assistance to victims in hazardous situations and residents in the rural areas of Sabah. Issues discussed including Smart Tele-medicine System; software architecture and hardware architecture of the system; Bluetooth framework for the system and portlet development. Pervasive computing devices tend to be small and tiny is choosen in this research. In a tele-medicine environment smart devices are connected to the servers by employing Bluetooth wireless connection. Bluetooth is chosen for its convenience and mobility offered to users. It is low cost, low power consumption as well as secured. As device with WEME application installed detects the availability of Bluetooth transmission, it will attempt to build a PPP connection with request for WAS servlet which contains location information, which WAS will respond with a servlet containing the location information to the requesting WEME through which the users in the hospital emvironment can have all the facilities regarding their queries.