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RGB-LED-based Optical Camera Communication using Multilevel Variable Pulse Position Modulation for Healthcare Applications

  • Rachim, Vega Pradana;An, Jinyoung;Pham, Quan Ngoc;Chung, Wan-Young
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.6-12
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, a 32-variable pulse position modulation (32-VPPM) scheme is proposed to support a red-green-blue light-emitting-diode (RGB-LED)-based optical camera communication (OCC) system. Our proposed modulation scheme is designed to enhance the OCC data transmission rate, which is targeted for the wearable biomedical data monitoring system. The OCC technology has been utilized as an alternative solution to the radio frequency (RF) wireless system for long-term self-healthcare monitoring. Different biomedical signals, such as electrocardiograms, photoplethysmograms, and respiration signals are being monitored and transmitted wirelessly from the wearable biomedical device to the smartphone receiver. A common 30 frames per second (fps) smartphone camera with a CMOS image sensor is used to record a transmitted optical signal. Moreover, the overall proposed system architecture, modulation scheme, and data demodulation are discussed in this paper. The experimental result shows that the proposed system is able to achieve > 9 kbps using only a common smartphone camera receiver.

EasyCare : An Agent-based u-Healthcare System for Managing Patients with Heart Diseases (EasyCare : 심계질환자 관리를 위한 에이전트 기반의 u-헬스케어 시스템)

  • Cho, Hyun Joo;Kim, Sangchul
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.177-190
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    • 2011
  • Due to the growth of economy and the advancement of IT, the life expectancy has been prolonged and the interests in health have greatly increased. Recently the request for systems that enable measuring the bio-signals of patients in the non medical organizations, such as home, and transmitting them to medical staffs at remote sites for monitoring them. In this paper, we present an agent-based u-health system for patients or suspects with heart diseases. Our system consists of portable devices for measuring bio-signals and agents that perform data collection, data storage, automatic detection of abnormal status in patients, and HL7-based data exchange in a cooperative way. The main features of the system are : the agent-based architecture facilitates the addition of new service modules as well as the modification of existing ones; an intelligent agent is provided which automatically detects situations in which the bio-signals of patients are abnormal; the medical data standard is supported so that the communication with other systems is very easy. To our survey, there have been few previous systems which support all those features in a seamless way.

Designing Interactive Walkways of Smart Cities in Saudi Arabia

  • Jadi, Amr
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.121-128
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    • 2021
  • In this work, a noble walkway approach suitable for Saudi Arabia (SA) towards its aim to develop a wide range of smart cities is considered scientifically. This work intends to minimize the errors at each level by testing the events that take place in the walkway environment. similarly, the minimum requirements to develop a walkway to the additional features to be considered while designing a walkway are discussed in this paper with sensitive areas such as environmental factors, healthcare issues, patients visiting the walkways, etc. The applications of different monitoring devices such as CCTV's, global positioning systems (GPS), etc. are carefully addressed to help the proposed method for improving the monitoring activities of a variety of events that possibly cause problems to a common man. The ultimate goal of this work to ensure a safe and satisfied journey of pedestrians while they come for a walk with all suitable safety measures. The safety measures included in this work are for pollution, noise, temperature, humidity and traffic jams on the roads. To improve the accuracy and to test the proposed approach some polices are defined and will be tested for the consistency of the proposed system. The obtained accuracy of the proposed system is proved to be far better with an accuracy of 93% improvement in the results.

Monitoring System for patients with Alzheimer's disease Using Ubiquitous Technology (유비쿼터스 기술을 이용한 알츠하이머 환자 관리시스템 설계)

  • Ko, Dae-Sik
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.366-371
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    • 2008
  • The IT communication technology including sensors, RFlD, wire/wireless communication, DBMS and motion picture transmission can be applied to industry and medical fields. In this paper, patient monitoring system which composed of excrements sensing, remind supporting and web-remote monitoring system has been designed and implemented. It has been shown that excrements sensing system had capabilities of monitoring a maximum of 64 patients, remind support system can be used for helping memory of the patients with Alzheimer's disease, and web remote motion picture monitoring system can monitor patients over the internet with 1 to 15 frames/sec.

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Emergency Support System using Smart Device (스마트 기기를 활용한 응급 지원 시스템)

  • Jeong, Pil-seong;Cho, Yang-hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.20 no.9
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    • pp.1791-1798
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    • 2016
  • Recently, research about ESS(Emergency Support System) has been actively carried out to provide a variety of medical services using smart devices and wearable devices. Smart healthcare provides a personalized health care service using various types of bio-signal measuring sensors and smart devices. For the smart healthcare using a smart device, it is need to research about personal health monitoring using a smart wearable devices, and also need to research on service methods for first aid measures after an emergency. In this paper, we proposed about group management based emergency support system, that is monitoring about personal bio signal using smart devices and wearable devices to protect patient's life. The system notices to the medical volunteers based on the position information when an emergency situation. In addition, we have designed and implemented an emergency support system providing the information of the patient on the display when transmitting a picture of a patient using a smart device to the server.

Policy-Based Identity Authentication and Transmission Architecture for Highly Reliable Emergency Bio-Data Management in Wireless Mesh Network for U-Healthcare (U-헬스케어를 위한 무선 매쉬 네트워크에서 고 신뢰성 있는 응급 생체 데이터 관리를 위한 정책기반의 신원 인증 및 전송 구조)

  • Chun, Seung-Man;Woo, Yeung-Kyung;Park, Jong-Tae
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.50 no.10
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2013
  • This paper proposed the architecture of the authentication and the transmission for high reliable emergency data management based on U-healthcare wireless mesh networks. In U-healthcare monitoring service, the high reliable bio data management as well as the data transmission are required because the monitoring emergency bio data is related linked to life. More specifically, the technologies of the identity authentication of the measuring bio data, the personalized emergency status diagnosis who is authenticated the bio data and the emergency data transmission are important first of all. To do this, this paper presents the structure and protocol of the identity authentication management with using the extended IEEE 11073 PHD, the structure of policy-based management of the emergency bio data for the highly reliable management and the resilient routing protocol based on wireless mesh network for the reliable data transmission.

Study on Radiation Dose in the Medical Image Data Display Method - Focused on the DICOM Standard (의료영상 데이터에서의 피폭선량 표시 방법에 관한 고찰: DICOM 표준을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Jung-Su
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.483-489
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    • 2015
  • DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) standards are generally introduced as de facto and de jure standards in modern medical imaging devices to store and to transmit medical image information. DICOM Dose Structured Report (DICOM dose SR) is implemented to report radiation exposure information in image acquiring process. and DIOCM Modality Performed Procedure Step (DICOM MPPS) is also partly used to report this exposure with the information in its DICOM tag. This article is focused on three type of radiation exposure information of DICOM standards, 1) DICOM dose SR, 2) DICOM MPPS and 3) Radiation Exposure Monitoring(REM) profile by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise(IHE), to study on radiation exposure reporting. Healthcare facility and its staff of medical imaging related to radiation exposure should have a deep understanding of radiation exposure, and it required a standards to enhance the quality control of medical imaging and the safety of patients and staffs. Staff member have to pay attention on radiation exposures and controling processes from the purchasing stage of X-ray devices.

Design of Security Agent System to Provide Ubiquitous Service (유비쿼터스 서비스를 위한 보안 에이전트 시스템 설계)

  • Kim, Seok-Soo;Park, Gil-Cheol;Song, Jae-Gu
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.101-106
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    • 2007
  • Recently, Ubiquitous innovation is being promoted so that they can support the uHealthcare provide management to human's health. It is thus necessary to conduct such research on the medical care environment where there is a high demand for utilization of status information. In the current situation, there is a lack of research on measures of security processing and monitoring patient status information produced from rapid growth of infra within Medical environment. This study suggests a solution of using RFID to gather patient information such as inpatient information, location of treatment room, progress of patient, humidity, temperature, and diagnostic status, after which the information are protect and processed using security level method.

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Development of Wearable Physical Activity Monitoring System (웨어러블 신체 생체 활동 모니터링 시스템 개발)

  • Park, Eun-Ju;Park, Do-Young
    • The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.34-39
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    • 2018
  • Along with the development of ICT technology, wearable devices of various sizes and shapes have been developed. In addition, performance and specifications are rebuilt with IOT fusion products so that they can connect with the current smartphone. This is one of the general-purpose technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, which is spot-lighted with technology that changes the quality and environment of our lives. Along with this, as new technology products combining health care technology increases, various functions are provided to users who need it. Wearable technology is ongoing trend of technology development. It also sells products developed as products in the form of smart watches. At present, various related products are made in various ways, and it is recommended to use the Arduino processor in accordance with the application. In this study, we developed wearable physical activity monitoring system using open source hardware based TinyDuino. TinyDuino is an ultra-compact Arduino compatible board made on the basis of Atmega process Board, and it can be programmed in open source integrated development environment(named Sketch). The physical activity monitoring system of the welfare body can be said to be a great advantage, as a smart u-Healthcare system that can perform daily health management.

Motion Artifacts reduction from the PPG based on the Improved PMAF for the U-Healthcare System (U-헬스케어 시스템을 위한 개선된 PMAF 기반의 PPG 신호의 동잡음 제거)

  • Lee, Han-Wook;Lee, Ju-Won;Jeong, Won-Geun;Jun, Jae-Chul;Lee, Gun-Ki
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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    • v.45 no.5
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    • pp.28-34
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    • 2008
  • The real-time biomedical signal monitoring is a very important factor to realize the ubiquitous healthcare environment. Most of these devices for monitoring the biomedical information get the PPG signal from the user, and these signals are utilized for monitoring their health. It is inconvenient to get the PPG because the user should wear the finger probe with his finger for measuring the PPG signal. Also it is difficult to get the PPG correctly, because of the motion artifacts from the movement of the user. In this paper, we develop the watch type biomedical signal monitoring system without the finger probe, and propose the new algorithm for reducing the motion artifacts from the PPG signal. We designed the system which gets the PPG from the sensor on the wrist band strip. As compared with the finger probe type, this system we proposed is more affected by the motion artifacts. So to filter this motion artifacts, we propose the new method; the improved PMAF(Periodic Moving Average Filter) method.