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Design and Implementation of u-Healthcare SensorGrid Gateway for connecting Sensor Network and Grid Network  

Oh, Se-Jin (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University)
Lee, Chae-Woo (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI / v.45, no.4, 2008 , pp. 64-72 More about this Journal
Abstract
Researchers nowadays are trying to implement u-Healthcare (ubiquitous Healthcare) systems for real-time monitoring and analysis of patients' status through a low-cost and low-power wireless sensor network. u-Healthcare system has an aim to provide reliable and fast medical services for patients regardless of time and space by transmitting to doctors a large quantity of vital signs collected from sensor networks. Existing u-Healthcare systems can merely monitor patients' health status. However, it is not easy to derive physiologically meaningful results by analyzing rapidly vital signs through the existing u-Healthcare systems. We introduce a Grid computing technology for deriving the results by analyzing rapidly the vital signs collected from the sensor network. Since both sensor network and Grid computing use different protocols, a gateway is needed. In addition, we also need to construct a gateway which includes the functions such as an efficient management and control of the sensor network, real-time monitoring of the vital signs and communication services related to the Grid network for providing u-Healthcare services effectively. In this paper, to build an advanced u-Healthcare system by using these two technologies most efficiently, we design and present the results to implement a SensorGrid gateway which connects transparently the sensor network and the grid network.
Keywords
Wireless sensor network; Grid computing; SensorGrid gateway; vital signs; u-Healthcare;
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