The Stepstone project was originally developed through a collaborative effort between IBM and the University of Florida to provide a reference implementation of device-driven patient-monitoring services at the University’s “Gator Tech Smart House” laboratory. It demonstrates how SODA can be used to build wellness and other healthcare solutions using embedded technology, service oriented architecture and open standards.

Stepstone features a complete Service Oriented Device Architecture for working with devices, a transport mechanism with well-defined APIs, and a rich server platform web application based on Eclipse Equinox for dynamic access to device data.  

Stepstone is primarily divided into two separate applications, the edge and the backend. The edge code is designed to run on a connected device and serves as a gateway for device data to the backend.   Alternatively, the backend code compiles into an equinox-based web application that can be deployed to standard application server such as Tomcat.

The use case surrounding the Stepstone story describes the experiences of an elderly patient, named Charlie, with a heart condition and his struggles with health care challenges and impacts to everyday life.   See how this this reference implementation has improved Charlie and his quality of care.

Video: A Smarter World for Charlie

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