ixellence Lantronix UDS1100 User manual

ixTrend –Recording vital signs from Philips IntelliVue Monitors
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Quick-Step-Guide
Installation of Lantronix® Device Servers
Content
Introduction................................................................................................. 1
Installing the Lantronix® External Device Server................................... 2
Configuring Lantronix® UDS1100/UDS2100........................................... 2
Configuring the serial ports of the computer ......................................... 3
Introduction
There are different ways of connecting ixTrend to the Philips IntelliVue monitors –either via
the LAN or the serial interface. Thus ixTrend can be used in different environments.
Having chosen the serial option, you can link the computer directly to the Philips IntelliVue
monitor by using an IntelliVue connector cable. If needed, you can purchase such a cable from
ixellence. With this setup, the distance between the Philips monitor and the computer can be
up to 5 meters.
For longer distances, the serial connection might be bridged over the local area network
(LAN) of your institution. The Lantronix® Device Servers enables you to do so. That way,
Philips IntelliVue monitors can be connected to ixTrend regardless of the distance.
In the following you will come to know how to connect patient monitors to the computer via
serial device server.

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Installing the Lantronix® External Device Server
For the setup ixellence provides the following Lantronix® Device Servers:
- Lantronix® UDS1100 (with one DB25F connector)
- Lantronix® UDS2100 (with two DB9M connectors)
ixellence recommends using the Lantronix® UDS2100
with the IntelliVue Connector cable (CA2212).
The photo alongside demonstrates how the cables are
linked to the serial device server.
1. Plug the power cable of the Lantronix® device
server in.
2. Plug the IntelliVue Connector cable (CA2212)
into the serial port 1 of the device server (RS232
jack) and into the serial port (RJ45 jack) of the
patient monitor.
3. Connect the device server to the hospital’s LAN
via conventional Ethernet cable.
Configuring Lantronix® UDS1100/UDS2100
The UDS 2100 needs an Internet Protocol (IP) address. Normally, the Dynamic Host Configu-
ration Protocol (DHCP) assigns it to the serial device server which receives the IP-address au-
tomatically. Please note that the IP-address must be within the same network-segment
of the ixTrend Netserver computer.
For further information about the configuration of the IP-address and on how to set the IP
address of the Lantronix® device server manually, please refer to the PDF User Guide of
UDS2100 or UDS1100 http://www.lantronix.com/support/documentation.html.
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After setting the IP address, you can en-
ter this IP address into the address bar of
your web browser. For the correct use of
ixTrend please check if the following
“Serial Settings”of the corresponding
serial port are configured correctly:
1. Baud Rate: 115200
2. Data Bits: 8
3. Parity: None
4. Flow Control: None
Press “Apply Settings” after changing
one of the settings (especially that for
Baud Rate).
Configuring the serial ports of the computer
The last step of the setup is the configura-
tion of the serial ports. You need to do
this on every computer you want to use
with ixTrend. Therefore you need to in-
stall the Lantronix® CPR Manager which
is on the installation disk of the Lantro-
nix® device server or can be downloaded
from the website http://www.lantro-
nix.com (menu option “Support”).
The Lantronix® device server emulates
serial ports on your computer over the lo-
cal area network (LAN). That means that
it creates virtual COM ports which are
treated just as “real” COM ports.
Open the CPR Manager after having it installed successfully and choose “Com Port > Add and
Remove” in the menu in order to create new serial ports on your local system.
Select as many COM ports as you want to emulate. For example: If you want to link 3 Philips
IntelliVue monitors to your computer, you need to select 3 new COM ports. Press the “OK”-
Button and you will return to the main screen of the CPR-Manager.

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After having created the virtual COM Port(s), you can search for Lantronix® device servers.
The device servers that have been found are displayed in the “Device List” of the CPR-Man-
ager.
To connect the TCP-port of a Lantronix® device server with a virtual COM port, please do the
following steps:
1. Double-click the corresponding COM Port in the tree view. The configuration screen
of this COM Port will open (here COM Port 4).
2. You have to enter the IP address of the Lantronix® device server below “Host”. This
IP address can be either manually configured or assigned by the DHCP.
3. Further the TCP port is needed. Usually it is set to “10001” by default for the first serial
interface of the device server. Double-click on TCP port of the Lantronix® device
server. This TCP port is now connected to the COM Port (here the TCP port 10001 of
the device server 192.168.178.86 is connected to COM port 4).
4. Please verify that the checkboxes “Server Reconnect” and “Buffer Writes” are
checked.
5. Press the Save-Button to save the settings on your system and thus finish the config-
uration.
6. After configuring the port successfully, a new tab labelled “Com <xx> Tests” will open
next to the tab “Settings”. There you can test if a connection has been established and
if the ports can be closed or opened.
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After finishing this, the virtual COM port is available on your system. Now you can use it for
connecting the corresponding IntelliVue monitor with ixTrend. Therefore you open the appli-
cation ixTrend which automatically starts searching for patient monitors at all serial ports.