Team Members:

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• Team Members
• Rebecca Busch
• Adam Langdon
• Casey Leichty
• Zac Orr
• Kristin Stechschulte
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• Faculty Advisors
• Dr. Estell, Dr. Kisor
• http//ecivon.onu.edu/GlucoSync
• November 12, 2002

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Overview

• Background Information
• Project Purpose
• Project Plan
• Design Choices

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What is diabetes?

• Characterized by excessive amounts of glucose in
  the blood
• Associated health risks
• Heart disease and stroke
• Kidney disease
• Amputation
• Blindness

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Self-Monitoring

• Keeping track of glucose levels over time
• Making day to day glucose management decisions
• Preventing emergency situations
• Becoming educated on how to manage blood glucose
  levels
• Making as much information as possible available
  to health care providers

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Glucose Meters

• Measure the amount of glucose using only a small
  blood sample
• Keep track of the date and time of the reading
• Provide the ability to upload data to a computer

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www.ecivon.info

• A resource to make one experienced, wise or
  skillful through education related to asthma,
  cholesterol, diabetes, and high blood pressure
• Provides a mechanism for users to track and
  analyze blood glucose levels
• Patients
• Health care providers

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Project Purpose

• To provide a simpler method for transferring data
  from the glucose meter to www.ecivon.info
• Develop an application to allow offline tracking
  and analyzing of blood glucose levels
• Promote self-monitoring process

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Project Plan

• Create a standalone application written in C
• Abstraction for serial communication
• Batch uploading
• Graphing tools
• Embedded Web browser
• User-friendly interface
• Server-side PHP to accept both batch and
  individual upload readings
• Utilize tools already in place

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Design Choices

• Web-based vs. standalone application
• Testing environment
• Storage on client machine
• Languages and technologies

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Web-based vs. Standalone

• Web-based
• Pros
• Independent of client machine
• Downloading an executable program would be
  unnecessary
• Cons
• Serial port security
• Active Internet connection
• Requires significant modification to
  www.ecivon.info
• Server specifications were already chosen

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Web-based vs. Standalone

• Standalone
• Pros
• Serial port security
• Stores, tracks, and analyzes data on client
  machine
• Utilizes current tools and functionality of
  www.ecivon.info
• Cons
• Maintainability

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Test Environment

• Necessary to test software without adversely
  affecting current users
• http//ecivon.onu.edu/GlucoSync
• Apache Web server on Red Hat Linux machine with
  PHP 4.0

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Storage Options on Client Machine

• Text file
• Easily stored but difficult to retrieve data
• Simple formatting
• XML
• Easy to write, store, and retrieve data
• Simple formatting
• Database
• More power but unnecessary

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Languages and Technologies

• C and .NET
• Serial Port Communication
• Not included in .NET framework
• Other methods possible
• Framework and runtime distribution
• Windows Installer 2.0 allows inclusion of a
  redistributable package

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Any Questions?