EXCLUSIVE PAIRING TECHNIQUE FOR BLUETOOTH TM COMPLIANT MEDICAL DEVICES

摘要

A method and system of establishing communications between at least two independent software modules in a safety critical system, such as a medical system, is provided. The design comprises providing an exclusive Bluetooth connection between at least two wireless devices. A master wireless device (212) is configured with Bluetooth master device functionality and a slave wireless device (213) is configured with Bluetooth slave device functionality. The wireless devices are employed in performing a medical procedure. The method further comprises acquiring a stored unique address from the slave wireless device over the Bluetooth connection, comparing the stored unique address to a mast er wireless device unique address available at the master wireless device, and exclusively pairing the master wireless device a nd the slave wireless device when the unique address acquired from the slave wireless device is found to identically match the master wireless device unique address.