Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing

Abstract - This research paper illustrates the enduring and visualizations within the creation of ubiquitous computing support in the hospitals for the medical work of the future. At present, the computers of clinical systems rarely play any role in the implementation of clinical work. More often the EPR i.e. Electronic Patient Records are located at the hospital offices instead in the operating theatres or at the bedsides of patients. In addition, there are several challenges to the software and hardware design of the modern computer systems that make them inappropriate for the clinical works. For instance, it is intricate while operating a patient, to operate a mouse and keyboard. Within the Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), the research offers a wide variety of new technological and conceptual probabilities. These prospects facilitate the hospital staff to move the support of clinical computers much closer to the setting of clinical work. For the clinical work there are several new technologies for the development and design of UbiComp are initiated. This research paper has assessed and evaluated the support of ubiquitous computing for the clinical hospital work. The ubiquitous computing has the potential for supporting the disruptive, collaborative, and mobile use of heterogeneous and varied embedded devices in a hospital.

Keywords-Ubiquitous Computing, Electronic Patient Records, Clinical Work, Embedded devices.

INTRODUCTION

The system designers of UbiComp or ubiquitous computing embed devices in several physical places and objects. Commonly mobile, these devices that people usually carry with them and embed in the cars, are characteristically wirelessly networked [1]. Almost 30 years of research have invested for the creation of systems of the distributed computing. In addition, approximately 20 years of experience has been invested in the creation of mobile computing. Along with these conditions and with the present developments in the wireless and miniaturization operations, the human society appears hovering to comprehend the vision of ubiquitous computing [2]. The software of ubiquitous computing must deliver and distribute the functionality and implementation in the day to day and routine life. It must be done with the limited and inadequate resources in accordance with failure-prone hardware. Furthermore, the software of ubiquitous computing must operate and function in the circumstances and conditions of the fundamental modifications. The modification of physical conditions can cause the components characteristically for making and breaking the links with the peers of a new class of practical heterogeneity. The research of distributed and mobile computing has already dealt with the elements of these needs. However, there remains a difference of qualitative means among the needs and the accomplishments.

In the medical work, specifically in the hospitals, practice of modern systems of clinical computers is done [1]. However, the studies have made known that these conventional technologies of computer that were designed for the office usage is derisory and insufficient for the practice in the hospital settings. There is wide variety of challenging aspects of the medical work that makes it essentially diverse from the archetypal work of office. These are ad hoc collaboration, high degree of communication, ...