Ontology-Based Service Composition for Interoperable and Modular Medical Devices

Since interoperability between medical devices is becoming mandatory in the Operating Room (OR), manufacturer-independent communication standards following a Plug and Play (PnP) approach are on the rise. Medical devices such as Operating Room tables (OR tables) are also reconfigurable and modular systems following a PnP approach. But enabling a networked system with multiple reconfigurable medical devices in a highly regulated and safety-critical area requires a continuous architecture with clear semantics. Thus, we propose an ontology-based service composition in a Service-Oriented architecture (SOA) for modular and interoperable medical devices that ensures unified semantics. Therefore, we use an OR table that is connected to other devices in an OR as an example.