Development of Remote Diagnostic and Management Software

Abstract

In today’s advanced Internet world having data and keeping it safe is what keeps one ahead of the competitors. This project is a sincere effort towards enabling all Stryker devices to gather data and route it to a central position where it can be stored and processed. Remote Diagnostic and Management Software is a tool that can be used by any Stryker device to connect with Stryker Cloud securely. It provides a list of functionalities that allows the new software development teams to integrate it with their software efficiently. The RDMS resides inside the host device and runs independently of the master software. The host devices communicate with RDMS via different endpoints which are exposed locally. The motivation behind new development was that the earlier system had some drawbacks which were supposed to be removed and the addition of new features was to be done. The primary purpose of the project is to add new features like being Operating System (OS)-agnostic, file downloading capability, cloud to device messaging, data exchange via Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket connection in the existing code. The project development was completed within six months using the Agile Software Development Life Cycle. The development planned in two major phases, the first was to enable the RDMS to communicate with devices over TCP sockets and the second was to add the file downloading and cloud to device messaging features on the cloud connectivity side. After the completion of the development, the RDMS went through two phases of testing and released for internal use by the Stryker New Product Development (NPD) teams.