GE Portrait Hub01, User Manual

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System description
Hub and sensors overview
The Hub collects and displays real-time monitoring data from the wireless sensors
that are specifically designed for ambulatory patients. The Hub can visually and
audibly annunciate alarms, and the alarming behavior can be modified by selecting
the appropriate monitoring mode (
REMOTE or LOCAL ). The Hub also shows the signal
quality indicators, real-time monitoring numerics and waveforms for pulse oximetry,
pulse rate, and respiration measurements. You can navigate between various views of
this data. In addition, the Hub shows alarm limits, the battery status of both the Hub
and paired sensors, the Medical Body Area Network connection status, and trends
from the past four hours.
The Portrait TM Mobile Monitoring Solution uses the following wireless technologies:
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Near Field Communication, NFC: complies with ISO/IEC 18000–3
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Wireless local area network, WLAN: complies with IEEE 802.11abgn
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Radio-frequency identification, RFID: complies with GS1 EPC Class 1 Gen 2
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Medical Body Area Network, MBAN
The Hub, sensors, sensor batteries, and charger are all equipped with passive RFID
tags to support RFID tagging. The RFID tags alone do not form a functioning system:
an RFID reader and a host system application are also needed. These are not part of
the Portrait
TM Mobile Monitoring Solution itself.
Monitoring starts via Near Field Communication (NFC) technology when a sensor is
paired with the Hub by simply tapping it to the rear of the Hub. Sensors communicate
with the Hub using a proprietary wireless MBAN, and the Hub then sends the data to
the Central Viewer using a wireless local area network (WLAN).
The following graphic illustrates the WLAN and MBAN in the system:
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