WO2004100395A1 - Method of establishing a wireless communication connection - Google Patents
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- H04W84/18—Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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- H04W52/00—Power management, e.g. TPC [Transmission Power Control], power saving or power classes
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- H04W52/38—TPC being performed in particular situations
- H04W52/50—TPC being performed in particular situations at the moment of starting communication in a multiple access environment
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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- A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
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- A61B5/0002—Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network
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- G—PHYSICS
- G08—SIGNALLING
- G08C—TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS FOR MEASURED VALUES, CONTROL OR SIMILAR SIGNALS
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- the invention relates to a method of establishing a wireless communication connection between a source apparatus and one of a plurality of target apparatuses. Furthermore, the invention relates to a communication device adapted to perform such a method and to a patient-monitoring system with such a communication device.
- ad hoc wireless communication connection finds an increasingly wider application in which standardized protocols such as, for example, Bluetooth provide the possibility of communicating between apparatuses from different manufacturers.
- standardized protocols such as, for example, Bluetooth
- a description of the application of Bluetooth for managing an existing communication connection can be found in, for example, EP 1 133 119 A2.
- Apparatuses, with which ad hoc wireless communication networks can be established include particularly stationary or mobile computers (laptop, Personal Digital Assistant PDA, etc.), mobile phones, chip cards, audio apparatuses, video apparatuses and patient-monitoring systems, in which individual monitoring apparatuses are assigned to a patient and can be scanned by a physician by means of a control apparatus.
- the establishment of a wireless communication connection between a source apparatus searching such a connection and one of a plurality of target apparatuses is realized in the state of the art in that the source apparatus transmits search signals in a predetermined range (typically 10 m for Bluetooth), to which search signals all target apparatuses within the range respond.
- the target apparatus with which the establishment of the communication connection is desired is then selected from the target apparatuses that have been found. This selection usually requires operation by a user, which may be very cumbersome and elaborate when a relatively large number of found target apparatuses is concerned.
- Advantageous embodiments are defined in the dependent claims.
- the method according to the invention is used for establishing a wireless communication connection between an apparatus which seeks to establish such a communication connection and which will hereinafter be referred to as "source apparatus”, and one of a plurality of other apparatuses, which will hereinafter be referred to as “target apparatuses”.
- the effective range of signals used for establishing the communication connection is maintained so small that these signals connect the source apparatus only to a minimal number of target apparatuses.
- the "effective range” is determined by the transmitting power of the signals ("active range”) and the reception sensitivity ("passive range”) of a receiver.
- the minimal number of target apparatuses obtained by means of the method described hereinbefore will be one, i.e. a communication connection is established between the source apparatus and exactly one target apparatus without the user having to actively engage in the establishment of the connection. Selection by a user will only be required in exceptional cases in which a plurality of target apparatuses is within the same effective range and among which no automatic selection is made. In such cases, however, the method still has the advantage that the user only needs to make a selection from a proportionally small number. Furthermore, a connection with a target apparatus through the shortest distance to the source apparatus is established by means of the method. In many cases, this is exactly that target apparatus for which the establishment of a communication connection is desirable. Examples of such cases are patient-monitoring system scans or data exchange (visitor's cards, addresses, etc.) between two PDAs.
- the (active) range of the signals of the source apparatus is particularly used for the selective establishment of the connection.
- the method comprises the following steps. a) Initially, the source apparatus transmits search signals whose active range (transmitting power) is successively increased until the search signals reach a first of the relevant target apparatuses. b) After the first target apparatus has been reached by the search signals, a communication connection is built up with the target apparatus that has been reached. Typically, this process is carried out in such a way that the target apparatus responds to the reception of a search signal so that the source apparatus detects the presence of a target apparatus within the current range of the search signals. A stable communication connection can then be established in known manner with this target apparatus. Particularly, unambiguous identification codes for the source apparatus and the target apparatus can be exchanged so that the subsequent communication can be unambiguously handled between the participating apparatuses by using address and sender codes.
- the target apparatus may respond by means of a reply signal to the reception of a search signal.
- the active range of the reply signal is selected in conformity with (for example, equal to) the currently used range of the search signal of the source apparatus. In this way, it is ensured that the target apparatus replies with the signal strength which is at least required for reaching the source apparatus. Increased energy consumption as well as a disturbance of other apparatuses by a reply range which is selected to be too large is thereby avoided.
- the search signal preferably comprises information about the strength at which it is transmitted.
- the effective range of the signals of the target apparatuses is particularly used for the selective establishment of the connection.
- the method comprises the following steps, a) The source apparatus transmits search signals. b) A target apparatus responds to the reception of a search signal by means of a reply signal which has a smaller effective range than that of the search signals, c) A communication connection is established with a target apparatus whose reply signals (effectively) reach the source apparatus.
- This method also ensures that a communication connection with a minimal number of target apparatuses located as close as possible to the source apparatus is established.
- the effective range of the reply signals of the target apparatuses is preferably increased until a first reply signal (from any one of the target apparatuses) reaches the source apparatus. In this way, the next target apparatus is determined iteratively.
- the effective range of the search signals and/or the reply signals may be particularly changed by changing the transmitting power (active range) of a transmitting apparatuses in the methods described. However, additionally or alternatively, this range may also be changed by changing the reception sensitivity of a receiving apparatus (passive range), because this functionally leads to the same results.
- the effective range of the communication signals from the source apparatus and/or the reached target apparatus with which a communication was established is increased after establishment of this connection.
- the establishment of the communication connection is typically considered to be terminated as soon as the source apparatus and the target apparatus have ensured an unambiguous mutual communication address by exchanging identification codes.
- the communication connection can be established by means of any appropriate wireless signal carrier such as, for example, infrared light or ultrasound. However, it is preferably based on radio signals.
- the actual communication connection can then be particularly established in accordance with the Bluetooth protocol.
- the invention also relates to a communication device for maintaining a wireless communication connection between two apparatuses, which communication device comprises a control unit and a communication module connected thereto, while the control unit is adapted to control the communication module in accordance with a method of the type described hereinbefore.
- the control unit may cause the communication module to transmit search signals in an increasing range (transmitting power) and to establish a communication connection with the (target) apparatus which is the first to be reached by the search signals.
- the communication device is preferably implemented in such a way that the variants of the method described can also be performed.
- the communication module may be particularly adapted for wireless communication by means of radio signals and use a Bluetooth protocol.
- the control unit may be adapted to increase the transmission range of the communication module after a communication connection has been established with a (target) apparatus.
- the control unit of the communication device may be particularly realized by means of a microprocessor with an associated memory which comprises a computer program whose commands implement a method of the type described hereinbefore.
- the invention relates to a patient-monitoring system with a plurality of monitoring apparatuses assigned to each patient and (at least) one control apparatus comprising a device of the type described hereinbefore.
- the monitoring apparatuses of such a patient-monitoring system typically comprise one or more sensors connected to the patients, with which sensors, for example, the ECG, respiration, blood values and the like are monitored.
- the control apparatus is typically carried around by medical personnel so as to read, indicate and/or store data recorded by a monitoring apparatus or to configure the monitoring apparatus.
- the method according to the invention is particularly advantageous because the establishment of a communication comiection between the control apparatus and the spatially closest monitoring apparatus is desirable in most cases. By automatically establishing this connection, the medical personnel is freed from the burden of elaborate selection procedures.
- Fig. 1 shows diagrammatically the establishment of a communication connection in a patient-monitoring system
- Fig. 2 shows the structure of a communication device according to the invention.
- Fig. 1 shows diagrammatically a patient-monitoring system.
- the system comprises a plurality of monitoring apparatuses 11, 12, 13 each assigned to a patient and recording physiological data of the patient by means of sensors.
- the monitoring apparatuses may be particularly mobile, i.e. they can be carried around by the patient outside his bed or during transport.
- a control apparatus 20 which may be, for example, a PDA carried around by the physician during his visit should be able to scan the data of the monitoring apparatuses in a wireless manner.
- a communication connection must be established between the control apparatus 20 (as source apparatus) and the desired monitoring apparatus 12 (as target apparatus). It is typical of this situation that the target apparatus 12 to be addressed is that apparatus which is spatially closest to the control apparatus 20 because the scan is performed when the physician with the control apparatus 20 is standing at the bed of the relevant patient.
- the source apparatus 20 transmits search signals 21 in the method according to the invention, which search signals have a transmitting power or range Rd starting at a minimal value and increasing successively.
- the rate of increasing the transmitting power is dependent on the radio technology used and particularly on the reply speed of an apparatus.
- the transmitting power may increase by 10%, for example, every 2.56 s.
- the increase could be faster.
- This reply is preferably given with a relatively small range, for example, the current range R d of the search signals, in order that a minimal number of apparatuses in the vicinity of the target apparatus 12 is disturbed.
- the source apparatus 20 receives the reply signal of the target apparatus 12 that is the first to be reached and thereupon starts a standard establishment of a communication connection 22 with the target apparatus 12.
- the Bluetooth protocol may be particularly used for this purpose.
- the source apparatus 20 and the target apparatus 12 preferably increase their transmission range R c at which the actual data are transmitted. In this way, it is ensured that the established communication connection remains stable, also when the distance and/or the transmission conditions are changed.
- the telemetry set in the target apparatuses 11, 12, 13 at the patient's bed is standardized at a short range when it is in the standby/inquiry scan mode, or when it changes between these two states.
- the reply to a received inquiry message 21 is transmitted at a small transmitting power only, so that only apparatuses within the direct vicinity can receive this message.
- the data packets within the connection are also preferably sent at the full transmitting power, but replies to inquiry messages are transmitted only at a small power.
- a discovery procedure is thus possible with the method described hereinbefore, in which the spatially closest target apparatus is found and with which a stable communication connection is established.
- the range R d which is limited to the necessary value during the discovery procedure has the additional advantage that the energy consumption and disturbance of other apparatuses are minimized.
- Fig. 2 shows diagrammatically the (logical) configuration of an electronic unit realized on a radio chip card, which can be built into the apparatuses 11, 12, 13, 20 of Fig. 1 for performing the method described hereinbefore.
- the radio chip card fundamentally corresponds to the Bluetooth standard.
- the radio chip card can be logically divided into a software layer 1 consisting of an application 4 and an upper Bluetooth stack 5 (Bluetooth layer above the HCI interface) as well as a hardware/firmware layer 2 consisting of a baseband processor 6 and an RF module 7.
- the software layer 1 and the hardware layer 2 are coupled by a HCI interface in accordance with the Bluetooth standard.
- this HCI interface 3 should be extended in such a way that the transmitting power of the RF module 7 can be influenced by means of commands from the software layer 1.
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