Data Router for Diagnostic Laboratory Device Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional diagnostic laboratory systems face challenges in integrating new devices due to their closed architecture and outdated protocols, which require significant modifications and domain knowledge, making it difficult to access and interpret data from heterogeneous devices.
Innovation Solution
A data router system that translates sensor-generated data from various producers into a uniform key-value pair format, allowing seamless integration of heterogeneous devices and providing data to subscribers in a common format, reducing the need for modifications to existing systems and facilitating real-time data access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional closed architecture diagnostic laboratory systems are used, then system stability is maintained, but device complexity increases and adaptability deteriorates when integrating new heterogeneous devices
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a data router as an intermediary component that sits between heterogeneous diagnostic devices and the central system. The data router receives data from various devices using different protocols and formats, translates it into a standardized format, and forwards it to subscribers. This mediator approach allows new devices to be integrated without modifying the core system architecture, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of data format by translating heterogeneous device data into a standardized format through the data router. This parameter transformation allows diverse devices to communicate uniformly with the central system without requiring system modifications, thereby improving adaptability while maintaining low complexity.
2Ease of operation
If outdated protocols are used in conventional systems, then compatibility with legacy devices is maintained, but ease of operation deteriorates due to difficulty in accessing and interpreting data from heterogeneous devices
Solution Approach 1:
The data router acts as an intermediary that translates data from various device protocols into a standardized, easily interpretable format. This translation layer maintains compatibility with legacy devices while providing uniform, accessible data to subscribers, eliminating the need for domain knowledge to interpret different device formats.
Solution Approach 2:
The data router provides universal data translation capability that works with multiple device types and protocols simultaneously. This multi-functional approach enables easy access to data from heterogeneous devices without requiring separate interpretation methods for each device type.
3Adaptability or versatility
If significant modifications are made to integrate new devices, then adaptability improves, but device complexity and loss of time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The data router is pre-configured with translation capabilities for multiple device protocols. This preliminary preparation allows new devices to be integrated quickly by simply connecting them to the data router, which already has the necessary translation rules in place, eliminating the need for time-consuming system modifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The data router as a pre-deployed intermediary component enables rapid device integration without requiring modifications to the central system. New devices can be connected and operational immediately through the data router's translation services, significantly reducing integration time.
4Productivity
If heterogeneous device data is processed without standardization, then data completeness is maintained, but processing burden on subscribers increases
Solution Approach 1:
The data router changes the data format parameter by translating heterogeneous device data into a standardized format. This transformation maintains all necessary information while presenting it in a uniform structure that reduces the processing burden on subscribers, thereby improving productivity without losing data completeness.
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AI summary
Methods, apparatus, and systems for obtaining sensor-generated data in a diagnostic laboratory apparatus including one or more producers of data that include a sensor, a local communications network communicatively coupling the producers to a data router configured to translate data received from producers of data into a common format record, the common format including key-value pairs, and at least one subscriber that registers one or more channel-based subscriptions with the data router. Records remain in storage by the data router until to the subscriber acknowledges successful receipt, after which the data router manages its storage resources to provide storage for newer sensor-generated data. The data router is configured to install plug-ins as needed to translate data formats of newly-integrated producers with new formats.