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Ubiquitous u-Health System using RFID & ZigBee  

Kim Jin-Tai (Dept. of Information Communication Engoneering, Chungnam National University)
Kwon Youngmi (Dept. of Information Communication Engoneering, Chungnam National University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC / v.43, no.1, 2006 , pp. 79-88 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we designed and implemented ubiquitous u-Health system using RFE and ZigBee. We made a wireless protocol Kit which combines RFE Tag recognition and ZigBee data communication capability. The software is designed and developed on the TinyOS. Wireless communication technologies which hold multi-protocol stacks with RFID and result in the wireless ubiquitous world could be Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.11x WLAN and so on. The environments that the suggested u-Health system may be used is un-manned nursing, which would be utilized in dense sensor networks such as a hospital. The the size of devices with RFID and ZigBee will be so smaller and smaller as a bracelet, a wrist watch and a ring. The combined wireless RFID-ZigBee system could be applied to applications which requires some actions corresponding to the collected (or sensed) information in WBAN(Wireless Body Area Network) and/or WPAN(Wireless Person Area Network). The proposed ubiquitous u-Health system displays some text-type alert message on LCD which is attached to the system or gives voice alert message to the adequate node users. RFE will be used as various combinations with other wireless technologies for some application-specific purposes.
Keywords
RFID; ZigBee; Ubiquitous computing; Sensor network; Ad Hoc Network;
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