A Data Acquisition and Document Oriented Storage Methodology for ANT+ Protocol Sensors in Real-Time Web

Lacking better methodology is one main factor that prevents remote healthcare application development using wearable sensors. Sensor devices and data heterogeneity are two additional factors. Integrating devices is a challenge due to lack of interoperability between APIs, protocols and their data formats, despite they relate to same device type. ANT+, a proprietary protocol, strengthens the goals for Internet of Things (IoT) by supporting device interoperability. Data diversity demands robust techniques during its transferal and storage. We miss a general guide to efficiently acquire and asynchronously store sensor data in a flexible schema repository. For a real-time web environment the methodology must address the issues such as, devices connectivity, unique general message interpreter, data transfer and storage. In this article a methodology is presented and supported with a prototype. A computer user can use it to acquire sensor data to transmit and store using a windows service.