page_title: ISO/IEEE 11073
section_title: Agent/manager principle
hierarchical_section_title: ISO/IEEE 11073 / Agent/manager principle
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Darstellung des Agent-Manager-Prinzips nach ISO/IEEE 11073
context_page_description: CEN ISO/IEEE 11073 Health informatics - Medical / health device communication standards enable communication between medical, health care and wellness devices and external computer systems. They provide automatic and detailed electronic data capture of client-related and vital signs information, and of device operational data.
context_section_description: All defined parts of this standard family are designed to allow communication according to this principle.
  The arrangement of two or more medical devices as a system, so that the components are possible to understand and to interact, are the basic idea of this principle.
  The agent is the part of the principle that is connected to the medical devices. It provides the data.
  The manager keeps a copy of the agent data, reacts on update events from them, and triggers events on the agent.
  In most use cases the manager is only used to remotely monitor and display agent data, but in some cases it may also remotely control the agents.
  Agents and manager are built in the same structure.
  This enables an agent to act as a manager and reverse.
  Besides the plain agent-manager application, hybrid systems over multiple stages are possible.
caption: Agents and managers in ISO/IEEE 11073
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