Audible is a centralized patient monitoring system that aims at reducing the noise pollution and the resulting stress on patients by delegating the alarms to a remote centralized location within the hospital which is continuously monitored. A centralized monitoring system keeps track of each patient's status in the patient database which is updated on a microsecond granularity. Hospitals already maintain the patient information in their databases. The centralized monitoring system requires monitoring a few parameters for each patient and does not produce much overhead. Multithreading ensures a fast, responsive and reliable system.
The alarm control panel is the secondary feature for the goal of noise reduction in the ED. This alarm panel indicates visually through the use of LED's when an alarm is noticed by the CMS. This panel is present in the CMS room and serves as a visual alert system along with the on-screen monitor alerts.
Audible: Alarm Control Panel