The IEC-60870-5 standard for a personal server applied to telemedicine

Abstract

This paper presents a proposal of a flexible telemedicine system for remote patient monitoring. It can be used in different kind of environments where there is only available low speed transmission links like Radio Frequency. This proposal includes the use of a previous work where the IEC-60870-5 standard was applied to the development of an open and flexible RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) based in open hardware, a SoC-type design using a FPGA programmed with the open core LEON and open source, so both the hardware and the ISO are open source.