• 센서학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.241-248
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• 2012

Recently healthcare industry such as pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare service technology is growing significantly. Mobile healthcare has attracted big attention due to IT convergence technology. Paradigm of healthcare has been changed from the 1st generation(communicable disease prevention) and the 2nd generation(treatment of disease due to extended life expectancy) to the 3rd generation(extended life expectancy due to prevention and control). In our study, we suggest the 3rd generation mobile healthcare system using Bluetooth based wearable ECG monitoring system and smart phone technology. The mobile healthcare system consists of wearable shirts with Bluetooth communication module, ECG sensor, battery, and mobile phone. The ECG data is obtained by a miniaturized sensor and the data is transferred to a mobile phone using Bluetooth communication. Then, user can monitor his/her own ECG signal on an application using Android in mobile phone. The Bluetooth communication device is used due to highly reliable data transmission property and the Bluetooth chip is embedded in every mobile phone. The wearable shirts with chest belt of Bluetooth ECG module is designed with a focus on convenience in the daily life of a wearer. The ECG signal evaluation software in Android based mobile phone is developed for the health check and the ECG signal variation is tested according to the activities of the wearer such as walking, climbing stairs, stand up and sit down, and so on.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.185-190
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• 2009

Biomedical mobile devices for ubiquitous healthcare consist of biomedical sensors and communication terminal. They have two types of configuration. One is the sensor-network type device using wired or wireless communication with intelligent sensors to acquire biomedical data. The other is the sensor embedded type device, where the data can be acquired directly by itself. There are many examples of sensor network type, such as, fall detection sensor, blood glucose sensor, and ECG sensors networked with commercial PDA phone and commercial phone terminal for ubiquitous healthcare. On the other hand, sensor embedded type mounts blood glucose sensor, accelerometer, and etc. on commercial phone. However, to enable true ubiquitous healthcare, motion sensing is essential, because users go around anywhere and their signals should be measured and monitored, when they are affected by the motion. Therefore, in this paper, two biomedical mobile devices with motion monitoring function were addressed. One is sensor-network type with motion monitoring function, which uses Zigbee communication to measure the ECG, PPG and acceleration. The other is sensor-embedded type with motion monitoring function, which also can measure the data and uses the built-in cellular phone network modem for remote connection. These devices are expected to be useful for ubiquitous healthcare in coming aged society in Korea.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.2235-2239
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• 2003

The aim of this research is to study and develop enabling technologies for home healthcare device with ubiquitous network. The motivation of this paper is to enable healthcare in home, to development the device for smart home health care. To achieve the aim, we must develop the prototype platform based on home gateways, distributed context user interface based on UPnP and support for information sharing with high speed power line communication and mobile infra-structures. And IPv6 is the base technology of this platform. In this paper, we concern that physical health, mental health and medical emergencies is all of home healthcare. With the smart device, we evaluate the connectivity, automatic information extraction and private data exchange and event driven message. The result of this paper is demonstration of smart device for ubiquitous communication in a healthcare application such as patient monitoring device and several information services. In conclusion, home healthcare will support more healthy and easy living for a human.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.112-115
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• 2010

The heart rate is the most important vital sign in diagnosing heart status. The simple method to measure the heart rate in the mobile healthcare device is using the PPG signal. In developing the mobile healthcare device using the PPG signal, the most important issue is the inaccuracy of the measured heart rate because the PPG signal is distorted from the user's motions. To improve the problem, this study proposed the new method that is to estimate the heart rate without an additional sensor in real life. The proposed method in this study is using the histogram filter. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, the study compares its results with the moving average method in motion environment. According to the experimental results, the performance of the proposed method was more than 40% better than the performances of the MAF.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 모바일 헬스케어 시스템에 적합한 환자모니터링 시스템을 제안한다. 모바일 헬스케어 시스템은 스마트폰과 같은 모바일 장치를 사용하기 때문에 휴대가 간편한 소형 컴퓨팅 장치로 구성되어 있으며, 기존 컴퓨터에서 수행하던 작업을 수행할 수있다. 환자의 생체정보를 이동통신망환경에서 의료진과 환자 및 환자 가족의 스마트폰으로 실시간으로 전달할 수 있도록 TinyOS 기반의 의료용 메시지 구조를 설계하였으며 NesC를 사용하여 HBE-Ubi-ZigbeX에 포팅 하였다. 의료진과 환자 및 환자 가족이 스마트폰을 통하여 실시간으로 확인 할 수 있도록 안드로이드 기반의 환자 정보 모니터링 애플리케이션을 구현하여 일상생활에서 사용되고 있는 스마트폰에서 동작을 확인함으로써 생체정보의 원활한 송수신을 확인하였다.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.221-231
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• 2015

This paper provides the trend of Internet of Things (IoT) for smart healthcare services and applications. IoT has provided a promising opportunity to build intelligent healthcare system and smart wearable applications by using the growing capability of wireless mobile devices, interactive sensors/actuators, and RFID technologies. For analysis of state-of-art technology of smart healthcare system, this paper includes comparative analysis and investigation of existing standard, network protocol, and devices, etc. In this paper, we examine the market trend of IoT healthcare. In particular, we examine the variety of IoT based healthcare type such as mobile, wearable device. After that, we examine the technologies of IoT healthcare such as standard, sensor, network and security. This survey contributes to better understanding of the challenges in existing IoT healthcare and further new light on future research directions.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.562-566
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• 2011

As telecommunication technologies in telemedicine services are developed, the expeditious development of wireless and mobile networks has stimulated wide applications of mobile electronic healthcare systems. However, security is an essential system requirement since many patients have privacy concerns when it comes to releasing their personal information over the open wireless channels. Due to the invisible feature of mobile signals, hackers have easier access to hospital networks than wired network systems. This may result in several security incidents unless security protocols are well prepared. In this paper, we analyzed authentication and authorization procedures for healthcare system architecture to apply secure M-health systems in the hospital environment. From the analyses, we estimate optimal requirements as a countermeasure to its vulnerabilities.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.95-100
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• 2017

Recently, as stress has become a major threat to people's health, there is a growing interest in wearable stress management services for stress relief. In this paper, we developed a wearable device(Care-on) capable of extracting changeable human voice information at each site and a Healthcare App(S-Manager) that enables stress management in real time using the wearable device. It collects and analyzes variable real-time voice information for each part of the person's body. And It also provides the ability to monitor stress conditions in a mobile environment and provide feedback on the analysis results in step by step in the mobile environment. We tested the developed wearable devices and app in a mobile environment and analyzed the results to confirm their usefulness.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.2008-2016
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• 2014

최근 건강관리 및 심장질환 관리 등에 대한 관심이 증가하면서 유비쿼터스 헬스케어 서비스와 관련 기기에 대한 개발이 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 패치형 심전도 측정기기와 연동된 스마트폰으로 구성된 모바일 헬스케어 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 시스템은 실시간으로 심전도, 맥박, 스트레스 지수를 모니터링하고 저장 및 전송하는 기능과 심박 수에 따른 건강관리 기능 등을 제공한다. 이처럼 웨어러블 생체신호 측정 장치와 연동된 모바일 헬스케어 시스템을 통해 생체 신호를 지속적으로 모니터링함으로써 사용자는 만성질환을 예방하고 꾸준히 건강을 유지할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 실제 플랫폼에 탑재되어 구현된 결과를 보여준다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제12권9호
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• pp.369-379
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 헬스케어 서비스를 위한 모바일 디바이스 수용의도, 헬스케어 서비스별 선호 디바이스 유형 및 속성의 차이, 어플리케이션에 대한 수용의도 및 최대지불금액을 파악하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 병원 및 의료기관 관계자, 노인 및 만성질환자, 건강유지에 관심 있는 소비자를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였다. 분석 결과, 헬스케어 서비스를 위한 모바일 디바이스의 수용의도는 중간 이상으로 높게 나타났으며, 병원관계자의 수용의도가 가장 높았다. 디바이스 유형으로는 스마트폰을 가장 많이 선호하는 것으로 나타났고, 헬스케어 서비스 유형에 따라 디바이스 속성이 차이를 보이는 것으로, 건강관리 서비스에서는 용이성과 유희성이 다소 높게 나타났다. 모바일 어플리케이션에 대한 수용의도는 병원용도보다 개인용도가 다소 높았으며, 어플리케이션 속성으로는 개인정보 보호를 가장 중요시 여기는 것으로 조사되었다.