Location
Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii
Event Website
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/
Start Date
3-1-2024 12:00 AM
End Date
6-1-2024 12:00 AM
Description
The paper explores possibilities of defining a generic conceptual model for creating software as a device. This research was triggered by initiatives from the healthcare sector to start decoupling software, defined by device manufacturers, from their hardware and addresses problems in regulating medical devices and their accompanying software. The idea of creating situations where software plays the role of a device, might have long term benefits regarding (a) sustainability of mobile and wireless computing, particularly at the computing edge (b) proliferation of new gadgets/devices coupled with proprietary software which often deliver similar if not identical services and (c) rising heterogeneities of hardware and software which may be difficult to manage. For illustration this paper uses the example of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD). It gives a very clear picture of why it is urgent to change the way devices are manufactured and coupled with proprietary software when delivering services.
Recommended Citation
Juric, Radmila; Suh, Sang; Ronchieri, Elisabetta; Tanik, Murat; Carbone, John; and Mcclenaghan, Karoline, "Software as a Device in Edge Computing" (2024). Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2024 (HICSS-57). 2.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-57/st/edge_computing/2
Software as a Device in Edge Computing
Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii
The paper explores possibilities of defining a generic conceptual model for creating software as a device. This research was triggered by initiatives from the healthcare sector to start decoupling software, defined by device manufacturers, from their hardware and addresses problems in regulating medical devices and their accompanying software. The idea of creating situations where software plays the role of a device, might have long term benefits regarding (a) sustainability of mobile and wireless computing, particularly at the computing edge (b) proliferation of new gadgets/devices coupled with proprietary software which often deliver similar if not identical services and (c) rising heterogeneities of hardware and software which may be difficult to manage. For illustration this paper uses the example of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD). It gives a very clear picture of why it is urgent to change the way devices are manufactured and coupled with proprietary software when delivering services.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-57/st/edge_computing/2