1. 1 Potential IHA Thesis Projects In Technical IT (www.tech.au.dk): Distributed Real-Time Systems & Software Engineering Finn Overgaard Hansen (foh@iha.dk) foh@iha.dk Professor (ingeniørdocent) at Engineering College of Aarhus Version: feb. 2008

2. 2 SIH Project Possibilities SIH (Sundhed I Hjemmet) – Personal/Private Healtcare project A 3 years Research Project at IHA started mid 2006 Funded by www.uvm.dk (Danish Ministry of Education) Funding 5 mill kr. – total project budget 11 mill kr. Systematics EPJ system is available for the project Examples on ongoing projects: Development of ECG/HRV (heart rate variability sensor/communication) Automatic medicine dispenser (RFID/communication) Detection of liquid balance (sensor/communication) Detection of epilepsy (censor/communication)

3. 3 Automatic Medicine Dispenser Prototype

4. 4 System overview SIH Home Server Automatic Medicine Dispenser Wireles s LAN Hand- held device Patient System Internet EPJ System Super- visor Server SIH HOME

5. 5 Patient System Overview Wireles s PAN Patient Node Patient Sensor XX Patient Sensor YY Wireles s LAN GSM/ GPRS GSM/ GPRS {alternatives} Automatic Handover Project HRV Detector Project Portable Equipment Patient System

6. 6 SIH Thesis Proposals / Ideas Security Model and Public Key-based Infrastructure for SIHSecurity Model and Public Key-based Infrastructure for SIH Infrastructure/framework Project(s)Infrastructure/framework Project(s) plug and play (automatic configuration and update)plug and play (automatic configuration and update) Usability / Feasibility studiesUsability / Feasibility studies Automatic Hand Over ProjectAutomatic Hand Over Project Wireless Connectivity Projects (WAN/LAN/PAN)Wireless Connectivity Projects (WAN/LAN/PAN) Test of Distributed SIH SystemsTest of Distributed SIH Systems Data Capturing of Real Rime Patient Data and integration with a Commercial EPJ systemData Capturing of Real Rime Patient Data and integration with a Commercial EPJ system

7. 7 Possible Infrastructure / Framework

8. 8 Contact Persons & possible supervisor Candidates at IHA Stefan Wagner (sw@iha.dk)sw@iha.dk Steen Krøyer (skr@iha.dk)skr@iha.dk Torben Gregersen (tg@iha.dk)tg@iha.dk Peter Gorm Larsen (pgl@iha.dk)pgl@iha.dk Finn Overgaard Hansen (foh@iha.dk)foh@iha.dk For other thesis possibilities please see a project list (partly in danish) at http://kurser.iha.dk/eit/tifspc-e/ (see additional topics) orhttp://kurser.iha.dk/eit/tifspc-e/ Contact foh@iha.dk or one of the other contact personsfoh@iha.dk