Temperatus® software: A new tool to efficiently manage the massive information generated by iButtons

Borja Martinez-Tellez; Alberto Quesada-Aranda; Guillermo Sanchez-Delgado; Juan M Fernández-Luna; Jonatan R Ruiz

doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.03.007

Temperatus^® software: A new tool to efficiently manage the massive information generated by iButtons

Int J Med Inform. 2019 Jun:126:9-18. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.03.007. Epub 2019 Mar 11.

Authors

Borja Martinez-Tellez¹, Alberto Quesada-Aranda², Guillermo Sanchez-Delgado³, Juan M Fernández-Luna⁴, Jonatan R Ruiz³

Affiliations

¹ PROFITH (PROmoting FITness and Health through Physical Activity) Research Group, Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain; Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, and Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands. Electronic address: B.Martinez-Tellez@lumc.nl.
² PROFITH (PROmoting FITness and Health through Physical Activity) Research Group, Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain; Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial, ETSI Informática y de Telecomunicación, CITIC-UGR, Universidad de Granada, Granada, 18071, Spain.
³ PROFITH (PROmoting FITness and Health through Physical Activity) Research Group, Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
⁴ Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial, ETSI Informática y de Telecomunicación, CITIC-UGR, Universidad de Granada, Granada, 18071, Spain.

PMID: 31029269
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.03.007

Abstract

An iButton is a temperature sensor of small dimensions (button-sized; 16 × 6 mm²), relatively low cost (˜US50$), with a stable and autonomous system that measures temperature and records the data in a protected memory section. These devices are used in different fields and the company offers a software (One-Wire Viewer) with several limitations. The present study describes Temperatus^® software with the main aim of making the task of programming, downloading, and analysing the massive amount of data generated by iButtons smoothly, intuitive, time-efficient, and user-friendly.

Keywords: Data-logger; Physiological responses; Skin temperature; Temperature; Thermoregulation.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Biosensing Techniques
Body Temperature
Database Management Systems
Humans
Software*
Temperature*