• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.32-39
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• 2016

With the help of a small wearable device, patients reside in an isolated village need constant monitoring which may increase access to care and decrease healthcare delivery cost. As the number of patients' requests increases in simultaneously manner, the web service gateway located in the village hall encounters limitations for performing them successfully and concurrently. The gateway based RESTful technology responsible for handling patients' requests attests an internet latency in case a large number of them submit toward the gateway increases. In this paper, we propose the design tasks of the web service gateway for handling concurrency events. In the procedure of designing tasks, concurrency is best understood by employing multiple levels of abstraction. The way that is eminently to accomplish concurrency is to build an object-oriented environment with support for messages passing between concurrent objects. We also investigate the performance of event-driven architecture for building web service gateway using node.js. The experiments results show that server-side JavaScript with Node.js and MongoDB as database is 40% faster than Apache Sling. With Node.js developers can build a high-performance, asynchronous, event-driven healthcare hub server to handle an increasing number of concurrent connections for Remote Healthcare Monitoring System in an isolated village with no access to local medical care.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.269-275
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• 2022

Public healthcare has recently become an issue of great importance due to the exponential growth in the human population, the increase in medical expenses, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Speed is one of the crucial factors in saving life, particularly in case of heart attack. Therefore, a healthcare device is needed to continuously monitor and follow up heart health conditions remotely without the need for the patient to attend a medical center. Therefore, this paper proposes a portable electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring system to improve healthcare for heart attack patients in both home and ambulance settings. The proposed system receives the ECG signals of the patient and sends the ECG values to a MySQL database on the IoT-cloud via Wi-Fi. The signals are displayed as an ECG data chart on a webpage that can be accessed by the patient's doctor based on the HTTP protocol that is employed in the IoT-cloud. The proposed system detects the ECG data of the patient to calculate the total number of heartbeats, number of normal heartbeats, and the number of abnormal heartbeats, which can help the doctor to evaluate the health status of the patient and decide on a suitable medical intervention. This system therefore has the potential to save time and life, but also cost. This paper highlights the five main advantages of the proposed ECG monitoring system and makes some recommendations to develop the system further.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.161-168
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• 2018

고혈압은 현대 주요 성인병이며 기존의 혈압계로는 실시간 혈압 측정 및 원격 모니터링이 어렵다. 그러나 실시간 혈압 모니터링 u-헬스케어 시스템은 효과적인 건강관리가 가능하도록 해준다. 실시간 혈압 모니터링을 위해 본 논문에서는 손목형 혈압계, 스마트폰 및 u-헬스케어 서버로 구성된 실시간 혈압 모니터링 u-헬스케어 시스템의 구조를 제시한다. 그리고 손목형 혈압계의 하드웨어 설계를 위한 주요 핵심 기능인 맥파검출 아날로그 회로 구성과 손목형 혈압계를 구성하는 디지털 하드웨어 구성을 제시한다. 또한 이들 하드웨어 시스템을 동작시키는 소프트웨어 개발을 위한 UML 분석방법과 소프트웨어 설계를 위한 플로우차트와 화면 설계를 보여준다. 따라서 본 논문에서 제시한 설계방법은 실시간 모니터링 u-헬스케어 시스템 구현에 매유 유용하게 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.417-424
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• 2006

An ubiquitous healthcare monitoring system for elderly person at home was designed for continuous healthy monitoring of elderly person or patients. Human vital signals, such as ECG and body temperature, were monitored by terminal PC or PDA via ECG and temperature sensor nodes on the patient's body. From the ECG data, the heart rate, tachycardia, bradycardia and arrhythmia were diagnosed on the terminal PC or PDA to assist doctor's or nurse's aid or patient itself to monitor the patient's condition and give medical examination. Artificial judgement support system was designed in server computer and the system support a doctor or nurser for management or treatment of the patient. This system can be applied to vital signal monitoring system for solitude elderly person at self house or home health care service part. And this ubiquitous healthcare system can reduce the medical expenses in coming aging or aged society.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.1981-1991
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• 2016

In recent, the advancement of wearable devices and wireless body area networking technologies motivate researchers to pay attention to remote healthcare system for monitoring patients health and disease progression effectively. However, in order to implement a practical remote healthcare system, we must consider the security and privacy of patient's personal health information transmitted to healthcare servers through the network. Hence, in this paper, we propose a secure health data transmission protocol in remote healthcare monitoring system to protect patient's health information and prevent privacy from eavesdropping on the network. To achieve our security goals, we design an efficient secure protocol based on the identity-based cryptography with key evolution technique, and then confirm the superiority and the efficiency of the proposed protocol as compared with the existing protocol of Yang et al.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.126-133
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• 2009

There are already many researches providing u-Healthcare service, but they have left problems to be improved. First of all, the transmission range between sensor nodes and the gateway are restricted. Hence, patients feel uncomfortable because of they need to possess or locate closed to a gateway all the time when they aggregates their medical data. Also, the existing systems have not considered life environment that is important to analyze patient's diseases. Moreover, a guardian need to located close to patient or possess a mobile device that monitors a patients' status in real time when they are in outdoor. In this research, we present multi-hop packet transfer algorithm and compilation of life environment which help improve the problem of the existing researches. Likewise, we designed and implemented a medical information database and a real-time web monitoring system that manage patients' personal history and monitor a patients' status in real time. In this paper, we design and implement the u-Healthcare system based on mobile environment and we present a result when we tested our u-Healthcare system in scenario environment.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.197-202
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 가정 내에서 보다 편리하게 건강모니터링을 수행하기위한 홈헬스케어용 다중생체 계측시스템을 구현하였다. 측정대상 신호는 가정 내에서 일반인들이 쉽게 측정할 수 있으며 많은 건강정보를 포함하고 있는 심전도, 맥파 그리고 체온을 대상으로 하였다. 구현된 생체계측 시스템은 신호검출을 위한 센서부, 각각의 생체신호를 증폭 및 필터링하기 위한 아날로그 신호처리부, 아날로그신호를 디지털로 변환하여 처리하고 시스템 주변장치를 제어하기위한 시스템제어부 및 모니터링 프로그램으로 구성되었다. 구현된 시스템은 시스템자체에서의 디스플레이뿐만 아니라 블루투스무선통신을 통해 홈서버용 PC 또는 웹을 통해 원격모니터링이 가능하여 원격건강정보 모니터링에 활용이 가능하다. 구현된 생체신호 계측시스템의 성능평가 결과 실제 홈 헬스케어에 적용 가능성을 확인하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제26권12호
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• pp.146-153
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• 2009

One of the most important issues in the wearable healthcare sensors is to minimize the motion artifacts in the vital signals for continuous monitoring. This paper presents a reflected type photoplethysmograph (PPG) sensor for monitoring heart rates at the artery of the wrist. Active noise cancellation algorithm was applied to compensate the distorted signals by motions with Least Mean Square (LMS) adaptive filter algorithms, using acceleration signals from a MEMS accelerometer. Experiments with a watch type PPG sensor were performed to validate the proposed algorithm during typical daily motions such as walking and running. The developed sensor is suitable for ubiquitous healthcare system and monitoring vital arterial signals during surgery.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.1090-1105
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• 2012

A multi-modal sensing M2M healthcare monitoring system for the continuous monitoring of patients under their natural physiological states or elderly persons with chronic diseases is summarized. The system is designed for homecare or the monitoring of the elderly who live in country side or small rest home without enough support from caregivers or doctors, instead of patient monitoring in big hospital environment. Further insights into the natural cause and progression of diseases are afforded by context-aware sensing, which includes the use of accelerometers to monitor patient activities, or by location-aware indoor tracking based on ultrasonic and RF sensing. Moreover, indoor location tracking provides information about the location of patients in their physical environment and helps the caregiver in the provision of appropriate support.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권7호
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• pp.892-897
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• 2018

Due to population aging, an increase in the number of patients with chronic illnesses, and an increase in the number of single-person households, monitoring of health status in everyday life without the need for a hospital has become very important. For this reason, researches on various health care devices have been attempted, among which wearable devices are attracting much attention. In this paper, we propose a new ring-type wearable device for next generation healthcare. On the inner side of the ring, a metal electrodes for GSR measurement and an optical sensor for measurement of pulse wave signals of two wavelengths of red and near-infrared light were mounted. In addition, it was equipped with an acceleration sensor, and information about the degree of motion could be obtained. In this paper, it is shown that a health monitoring device can be implemented in the form of a ring, and the measured signals can be used to calculate heart rate, oxygen saturation, sleep time and sleep efficiency. Through the advanced algorithm, it is expected that we can extract various health information, especially sleep related health information by using the ring device, and it is also expected that it can contribute to the implementation of wearable healthcare effectively.