Home care: A telematic rehabilitation exerciser

This paper deals with the development of a system established on a telematic rehabilitation exerciser, a plug-PC and a real-time web-animation. An easy to use device, which allows a telematically controlled training at home is target of this project. It is thereby based on the diagnosis and therapy platform COMES® of the Heinz Nixdorf-Lehrstuhl für Medizinische Elektronik of the Technische Universität München. In COMES® mobile measured vital parameters are intelligently evaluated by an expert system before they are provided to the user along with medical information and trends. A Java application allows the real-time data, which is sent by a telematic exerciser and received over the Bluetooth interface of the plug-PC to be filtered and transmitted over a SQL-connection on, to a database. These data is retrieved by the animation and evaluated in form of a game. To visualize this web-animation, the screen of a potential terminal device is splitted in two and taking only a small horizontal part, this animation is shown on the screen. The other part could be filled by a TV-programm, Video or Skype window depending on the abilities of the terminal device which could be any device with an internet browser (e.g. a Smart TV).