Device Specific Integration Applications

This folder is used by two services, which operate in a clinic with multiple instances, e.g. one for each device:

Device Data Upload Service - This service is retrieving information from devices and writes or copies them in a device specific format to the device integration folder. The filename has this format {GIDOfDevice}
KORDEUS Device Integration (KDI) Service - This service will load the file and trigger the internally availbale data converter for the device identified by the GID of the device

Device Data Upload Server should take the information and write it to an envelope in a standard format defining from which device-instance the information it is coming from. This file is put into the /input folder
The KDI will read the envelope, will detect the device-type (e.g. IOL Master 700) of device-group-type (e.g. optical biometer). This information is managed with KORDEUS admin tools.
With this device type KDI will invoke the device-type specific data parser centrally and convert the information into a standard format. Once the conversion was successful:
- KDI writes the converted files to a /convertedOK folder, which holds all information in a standard import format, which still holds the original file information presented by the device in a binary format.
- If KDI does not succeed, it will move the failed conversion file to a /conversionFailed folder
Upon request the data can be imported into the database. Before the data is used, the standard import format is saved to the DMS and receives a documentID there, which is kept with the dataset
KDI will archive all files to the document-management system.
- from the /input folder before deleting them physically from the hdd
- from the /convertedOK folder, after it has been imported once

Goal

Each Device Data Upload Service, has a setting file, which holds the device-type and deviceID, which was created earlier with KORDEUS admin tools
Once any of the device data is used, it can be tracked in the DMS-System (so if a device error happens, we can prove that later).

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