Agent/Manager Principle
All defined parts of this standard family are designed to allow communication according to this principle. The arrangement of two or more medical devices as a system, so that the components are possible to understand and to interact, are the basic idea of this principle.
The Agent is the part of the principle, that is connected to the medical devices. He provides the data. The Manager keeps a copy of the Agent data, reacts on update events from them and triggers events on the Agent. In the most use cases, the Manager is a remote monitor for displaying data, but also an agent remote control by the Manager is possible. Like to see in the drawing above, Agent and Manager are built in the same structure. This enables an Agent to act as a Manager and reverse. Besides the plain Agent-Manager Application, hybrid systeme over multiple stages are possible. In the next steps the moduls and their functionalities are illustrated by means of the picture above.
Read more about this topic: ISO/IEEE 11073
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