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Design and Implementation of an OSGi-based Old Age Patient Care System in Embedded Programming on RFIDs and Infrared Sensors  

Cha, Si-Ho (세종대학교 정보통신공학과)
Kim, Dae-Young (광운대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Choi, Jae-Ho (광운대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Lee, Jong-Eon (삼성탈레스 기술연구소)
Kim, Kyu-Ho (을지대학교 의료산업학부 의료전산학)
Cho, Kuk-Hyun (광운대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
Publication Information
The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.33, no.11B, 2008 , pp. 1005-1012 More about this Journal
Abstract
According to an aging population has dramatically increased in over the world, silver care becomes more important than other field. In this paper, we design and implement an old age patient care system that allows a carer to instantly monitor the status of proteges and notifies emergency of a patient to a medical institute. The system uses RFIDs and infrared sensors implemented in embedded software to analyze the activity and movement detection of the elderly. And the home gateway allows easy integration with heterogeneous devices by employing OSGi that is a middleware standard for home gateways. We can verify the information on the activity per day and the activity per week by Web browsers and view realtime video on the elderly by Web Cam using the implemented system. The system also can send us cell phone messages and E-mail in case of emergency.
Keywords
Healthcare; Home networks; Silver care; Home health; RFID; Infrared sensor;
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