A Data Acquisition and Document Oriented Storage Methodology for ANT+ Protocol Sensors in Real-Time Web

Abstract

Lacking better methodology is one main factor that prevents remote healthcare application development using wearable sensors. Sensor devices and data heterogeneity are two additional factors. Integrating devices is a challenge due to lack of interoperability between APIs, protocols and their data formats, despite they relate to same device type. ANT+, a proprietary protocol, strengthens the goals for Internet of Things (IoT) by supporting device interoperability. Data diversity demands robust techniques during its transferal and storage. We miss a general guide to efficiently acquire and asynchronously store sensor data in a flexible schema repository. For a real-time web environment the methodology must address the issues such as, devices connectivity, unique general message interpreter, data transfer and storage. In this article a methodology is presented and supported with a prototype. A computer user can use it to acquire sensor data to transmit and store using a windows service.