• Healthcare Informatics Research
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.387-393
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• 2018

Objectives: This paper describes an experience of implementing seamless service trials online and offline by adopting Internet of Things (IoT) technology based on near-field communication (NFC) tags and Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) beacons. The services were provided for both patients and health professionals. Methods: The pilot services were implemented to enhance healthcare service quality, improve patient safety, and provide an effective business process to health professionals in a tertiary hospital in Seoul, Korea. The services to enhance healthcare service quality include healing tours, cancer information/education, psychological assessments, indoor navigation, and exercise volume checking. The services to improve patient safety are monitoring of high-risk inpatients and delivery of real-time health information in emergency situations. In addition, the services to provide an effective business process to health professionals include surveys and web services for patient management. Results: Considering the sustainability of the pilot services, we decided to pause navigation and patient monitoring services until the interference problem could be completely resolved because beacon signal interference significantly influences the quality of services. On the other hand, we had to continue to provide new wearable beacons to high-risk patients because of hygiene issues, so the cost increased over time and was much higher than expected. Conclusions: To make the smart connected hospital services sustainable, technical feasibility (e.g., beacon signal interference), economic feasibility (e.g., continuous provision of new necklace beacons), and organizational commitment and support (e.g., renewal of new alternative medical devices and infrastructure) are required.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.305-308
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 기술 기반에서 음악감상요법을 통한 청소년의 정서함양 방안을 연구하였다. 이를 위해 학교 홈페이지를 통한 Blended Learning 적용과 Smart Handheld Device 사용의 Mobile Learning 환경구축, 그리고 USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) 기술 기반에서 U-Healthcare 개념의 맞춤형 감상교육을 제안한다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.21-30
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• 2014

Hypertension is one of the major causes of death in the world as it is related with cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease, so it is needed to provide continuos management for blood pressure. This study selected Health Level 7 Fast Health Interoperability Resources (HL7 FHIR) as a bio-signal data exchange service model that can provide constant blood pressure management in the rapidly growing mobile health care environment. The HL7 FHIR framework developed communicates with the IEEE 11073-10407 Personal Health Device (PHD) protocol through the bluetooth Health Device Profile (HDP) between the manager (smart phone) and the agent (hemomanometer) and acquires information about blood pressure. According to the test results, it performed its tasks successfully including hypertension patients' blood pressure monitoring, management on measured records, generation of document, or transmission of measured information. Because in the actual, clinical environment, it is possible to transmit measured information through the TCP/IP protocol, it will be needed to conduct constant research on it and vitalize it in the field of mobile health care afterwards.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.247-249
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 최근 IT 기술의 집약체인 스마트폰을 중심으로 국제표준인 ISO/IEEE11073, HL7을 준용하여 다양한 PHD(Personal Health Device)들과의 연결성을 지원하는 모바일 게이트웨이 플랫폼을 구축을 통하여 홈&모바일 헬스케어 분야에서 새로운 모델을 제시하고자한다. 아울러 핵심 기술 요소인 ISO/IEEE11073, HL7 적용을 통해 홈 헬스케어용 센서 기기에 대한 각종 기술을 축적 하고 최근에 활용이 보편화되고 있는 스마트폰을 활용한 헬스케어 플랫폼 적용으로 우수성을 확보하고자 한다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.43-52
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• 2019

The recent technological developments of smart devices, multiple services are provided to enhance the users' quality of life including smart city, smart energy, smart car, smart healthcare, smart home, and so on. Academia and industries try to provide the users with convenient services upon seamless technological research and developments. Also, whenever and wherever a variety of services can be used without any limitation on the place and time upon connecting with different types of devices. However, security weaknesses due to integrations of multiple technological elements have been detected resulting in the leakage of user information, account hacking, and privacy leakage, threats to people's lives by device operation have been raised. In this paper, safer communication framework is suggested by device control and user authentication in the mobile network environment. After implementations of registration and authentication processes by users and devices, safe communication protocol is designed based on this. Also, renewal process is designed according to the safe control of the device. In the performance evaluation, safety was analyzed on the attack of protocol change weakness occurred in the existing system, service halt, data leakage, illegal operation control of message, and so on, which confirmed the enhanced speed approximately by 8% and 23% in the communication and verification parts, respectively, compared to the existing system.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.279-284
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• 2013

Wireless access network section needs strong security which supports high data rate and mobility not to invade patient's privacy by exposing patient's sensitive biometric from automatic implantable device that is adapted to u-healthcare service. This paper builds test bed and performs assessment and measurement of security ability of WiMAX network to transmit and receive mobile patient's biometric by building WiMAX network in wireless access network not to expose paitne's biometirc at wireless access network section to the third person. Specially, this paper compares and assesses data security, MAC control message security, handover conection delay, and frame loss and bandwidth of ECDH at the layer of WiMAX security compliance, WiMAX MAC IPSec, and MAC.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.63 no.1
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• pp.173-178
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• 2014

In this study, the new color image processing algorithms with an android-based mobile device are developed to detect the abnormal color densities in a skin image and interpret them as the vitiligo lesions. Our proposed method is firstly based on transforming RGB data into HSI domain and segmenting the imag into the vitiligo-skin candidates by applying Otsu's threshold algorithm. The structure elements for morphological image processing are suggested to delete the spurious regions in vitiligo regions and the image blob labeling algorithm is applied to compare RGB color densities of the abnormal skin region with them of a region of interest. Our suggested color image processing algorithms are implemented with an android-platform smartphone and thus a mobile device can be utilized to diagnose or monitor the patient's skin conditions under the environments of pervasive healthcare services.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.56-60
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• 2021

Recently, technologies for internet of things have been rapidly advanced with development of network. Also interest in smart healthcare that informs about motion information of users has been growing. In this paper, a system that is monitoring the weight on both feet by using aduino and FSR(Force Sensitive Resistor) Sensor is implemented. A 4-channel sensor driver module was implemented to measure a more accurate weight value. It is monitoring the weight on both feet by the using an application for either your PC or mobile device. Mobile applications can contribute to reducing human damage by sending messages along with location in emergency situations, such as injuries caused by falls during outdoor activities.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.221-228
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• 2021

Recent improvements on the quality, fidelity and availability of biometric data have led to effective human physical activity detection (HPAD) in real time which adds significant value to applications such as human behavior identification, healthcare monitoring, and user authentication. Current approaches usually use machine-learning techniques for human physical activity recognition based on the data collected from wearable accelerometer sensor from a single wearable smart device on the user. However, collecting data from a single wearable smart device may not provide the complete user activity data as it is usually attached to only single part of the user's body. In addition, in case of the absence of the single sensor, then no data can be collected. Hence, in this paper, a continuous HPAD will be presented to effectively perform user activity detection with mobile service infrastructure using multiple wearable smart devices, namely smartphone and smartwatch placed in various locations on user's body for more accurate HPAD. A case study on a comprehensive dataset of classified human physical activities with our HAPD approach shows substantial improvement in HPAD accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.757-759
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 홈 헬스케어에서 건강측정을 위하여 가장 많이 사용되는 개인 건강 기기(personal health device)인 혈당계, 혈압계, 심박측정계(heart rate monitor), 산소포화도 측정계(pulse-oximeter), 심전도 측정계(ECG monitor)의 5가지 홈 헬스케어 의료기기를 구성하고 표준 핵심 기술 요소인 ISO/IEEE 11073, HL7을 준용하는 게이트웨이 플랫폼을 스마트폰에 적용하여 기존의 홈 헬스케어 시스템을 구성하는 단말기 형태의 게이트웨이나 홈 서버 하드웨어 구성을 필요로 하지 않으면서 집안의 고정된 게이트웨이로 인해서 생기는 위치종속성 문제를 해결할 수 있는 PMG(personal mobile gateway) 기반의 홈&모바일 헬스케어 시스템을 개발하고자 한다.