Smart Home Healthcare Device based on Ubiquitous Communication

  • Kim, Keun-Young (Microsystem Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)) ;
  • Cha, Joo-Hun (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kookmin University) ;
  • Park, Mig-Non (Department of Electric and Electronics, Yonsei University)
  • Published : 2003.10.22

Abstract

The aim of this research is to study and develop enabling technologies for home healthcare device with ubiquitous network. The motivation of this paper is to enable healthcare in home, to development the device for smart home health care. To achieve the aim, we must develop the prototype platform based on home gateways, distributed context user interface based on UPnP and support for information sharing with high speed power line communication and mobile infra-structures. And IPv6 is the base technology of this platform. In this paper, we concern that physical health, mental health and medical emergencies is all of home healthcare. With the smart device, we evaluate the connectivity, automatic information extraction and private data exchange and event driven message. The result of this paper is demonstration of smart device for ubiquitous communication in a healthcare application such as patient monitoring device and several information services. In conclusion, home healthcare will support more healthy and easy living for a human.

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