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Ubiquitous Healthcare Monitoring and Measuring System based on Wireless Sensor Network (무선센서네트워크 기반의 u-헬스케어 모니터링 및 계측시스템)

  • Lee, Young-Dong;Lee, Dae-Seok;Walia, Gaurav;Bhardwaj, Sachin;Chung, Wan-Young
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.821-822
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    • 2006
  • Ubiquitous healthcare monitoring and measuring system based on wireless sensor network was implemented and tested. The system can measure the ECG and body temperature of patients or elderly persons and transfer the data wirelessly in ad-hoc network to remote base-station connected to doctor's PDA/PC or hospital server, using wireless sensor motes. The data obtained can be analyzed by doctors and care providers to monitor a health status of patient in real time environment. To prove the capabilities of the wireless sensor network platform for ubiquitous healthcare applications, the performance of our monitoring and measuring system was tested with positive results.

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University Students's Life Styles and Preferences for Ubiquitous Residential Functions (대학생의 라이프스타일과 유비쿼터스 주거 기능 선호 - 광주광역시 대학생을 대상으로 -)

  • Kim, Mee-Shil;Kim, Mi-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2009
  • This paper documents research carried on the University students who are potential residents of the city to find out their preference for the ubiquitous residential functions, and categorize based on the life style to find out difference of their preference on ubiquitous residential functions. A survey was conducted on 324 university students in Gwangju city. The students were selected through purposive sampling and quota sampling by self-administered questionnaire sheets. The analysis analyzing methods using SPSS/PC 12.0 are frequency, percentage, factor analysis, cluster analysis, $x^2$(chaisquare)-test and one-way ANOVA (analysis of variance). For the survey, lifestyle types were categorized as: These are classified based on the analysis of facts regarding characteristics of student's lifestyles that are divided into nine types of facts and then make the four types through the cluster analysis as below. Energetic life type, Inactive life type, Family-oriented life type, Thrifty and Personality-oriented life type. The residential function of Ubiquitous is classified as Safety, Convenience, Comfortableness, Information, Health, Leisure and the residential space is divided into bedroom, livingroom, kitchen, bathroom. Considering the preference aspects for Ubiquitous residential function, among the bedroom, living room, kitchen, and bathroom, University student seek for safety from the living room, Convenience from the kitchen and Comfortableness from the living room, bedroom and kitchen. For Information, bedroom is most preferred among the bedroom, living room, and kitchen. For Health and Leisure, bedroom is preferred between bedroom and living room. In terms of the difference about the preferences for ubiquitous functions based on the four types of lifestyles; The Thrift-oriented type is commonly preferred to the Inactive type among the bedroom, living room and kitchen. The Family-oriented and the Thrift-oriented type were preferred to the Energetic and Inactive types in the bathroom. Also, in the entire residential space, the Ubiquitous functions is most preferred by the Thrifty and Personality-oriented life type.

Middleware for Ubiquitous Healthcare Information System

  • Sain, Mangal;Lee, Hoon-Jae;Chung, Wan-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.257-260
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    • 2008
  • We build middleware architecture with J2EE and LiveGraph to process different ubiquitous healthcare application's data and process that data into useful information, which can play a most important role in decision making in ubiquitous Healthcare System. Application developers mostly rely on third party middleware, tools and libraries (i.e., webservers, distributed middleware such as CORBA, etc.) to respond the emerging trends of their target domain. With this middleware we tried to enhance the efficiency of application by decrease their memory uses, data processing and decision making on another web module which is independent of each application. For middleware system, we proposed an algorithm by which we can find some important conclusion about different health status likewise ECG, Accelerometer. etc., which can be used in various data processing and determine the current health status. In this paper we also analyze some different low level and high level middleware technology which were used to build different kind middleware likewise CAMUS, MiLAN and try to find the best solution in the form of middleware for Ubiquitous Healthcare Information System.

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A Study on Diagnostic Model of Cerebrovascular Disease for Ubiquitous Health Care (U-헬스 케어 환경에서 뇌혈관 질환 진단 모델 연구)

  • Lee, Hyun-Chang;Kim, Jeong-Gon
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.11 no.6 s.44
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    • pp.107-111
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    • 2006
  • According to IT(information technology) industry progress. our life is gradually convenient. The proliferation of environmental pollution and the threat of diseases proportional to the progress comes to be high gradually. We must prevent dangerous diseases which threatens the life of the human. Or we are bumped against irrevocable serious situation. In spite of the situation. managing one's own health against modern busy lifestyle is very difficult. Therefore, we need to manage our health situation by using sensors based on ubiquitous IT environment. In this paper. we propose a diagnostic model which is able to diagnose and prevent a cerebrovascular disease based on ubiquitous technology. Also. as a step of implementing the u-health care diagnosis system, the diagnosis model of cerebrovascular disease plays an important role to decide a clinic result. In the future, by using this model. we may improve our welfare and health.

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A Study on the Analysis of Ubiquitous Self Home Service for Elderly Residents - The Usage of Senior Aids Products and Design Strategies - (고령자의 자립형 유비쿼터스 홈 서비스 분석에 관한 연구 - 노인용품에 대한 활용도 및 디자인 방안 -)

  • Kim, Mi-Yun;Kim, Bo-Ram
    • Journal of The Korean Digital Architecture Interior Association
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.15-22
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    • 2013
  • Recently, the korean statistical information service reported that the elder people aged over 65 years take 11 percentage point of all population, indicating that the hyper-elder era will advent shortly. As a result, there are remarkably increasing demands for providing self-organizable home agent system for elder people. Of the home agent system, the ubiquitous home service is known to be useful to overcome this problem. However, current ubiquitous home services limited to provide functional services, and it can be observed that there is lack of consideration for elder-support products which are closely interacted with elder people in the living situation. In this paper, we analyze senior aids products that can be combined to the ubiquitous home service, and propose design procedure for senior aids products that can be applied to self-organizable ubiquitous services. We studied characteristics of elder people, current state of affairs for senior aids products, and home services that are highly required by elder people. Moreover, we observed that the ubiquitous home services related to health, safety, and amenity are urgently needed, and those services can be categorized according to residential areas. Following those observances, we proposed a design principle based on the universal design paradigm to provide self-organizable ubiquitous home service environment for elder people using senior aids products.

Future of Ubiquitous Structural Health Monitoring for Infrastructure Management (유비쿼터스 사회기반구축 및 관리를 위한 건설계측기술의 미래)

  • Rhim Hong-Chul
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2006.04a
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 2006
  • As a part of efforts to enhance construction technology, it is essential to obtain competitive technology which is future-oriented. In this paper, the current status of structural health monitoring techniques is reviewed. Also, ubiquitous system is expected in its use for further development and applications in construction.

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In the Ubiquitous Environment with Wireless Heart Rate Meter ECG Status Information System (유비쿼터스 환경에서 무선맥박측정기를 사용한 심전도 상태 정보 시스템)

  • Lim, Myung-Jea;Jung, Hee-Woong;Lee, Ki-Young
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.51-56
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    • 2011
  • Recently, it is emerging in computing industry related ubiquitous. Also U-Healthcare system develops rapidly based on this trends. It is required system of health-status information to check user's health information on real-time and wireless network environment. Consequently, in this paper propose a health-Information system based on wireless and real-time environment. It can check a tremor pulse with method of photo-plethysmography. It convert pulse state information into 2-dimension bar code in order to confirm health information using mobile and also this system provide service of pulse visual record and explanation from specialist with MMS.

Implementation of Wireless ECG Measurement System Attaching in Chair for Ubiquitous Health Care Environment (유비쿼터스 헬스 케어 적용을 위한 의자 부착형 무선 심전도 측정 시스템 구현)

  • Ye, Soo-Young;Baik, Seong-Wan;Kim, Jee-Chul;Jeon, Gye-Rok
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.21 no.8
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    • pp.776-781
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    • 2008
  • In this study, ubiquitous health care system attaching in chair to monitor ECG for health care was developed at the unconsciousness state. The system conveniently and simple measured ECG at non-consciousness. We measured the contact impedance to skin-electrode of metal mesh electrodes of the system. Contact impedance enable the electrode to use for ECG measurement. The results are that the impedance of the metal mesh electrodes according to sizes is low when the size is 4$cm^2$. As the result, when the size of the metal mesh electrode is 4$cm^2$, the electrode is fit for ECG measurement. We can acquired by positing the arm on the metal mesh electrode. The ECG signal was detected using a high-input-impedance bio-amplifier, and then passed filter circuitry. The measured signal transmitted to a PC through the bluetooth wireless communication and monitored. Data of the non-constrained ECG system attaching in chair is noise-data when comparing metal mesh electrode with the Ag/Agcl electrode but the data is significant to monitor ECG for check the body state.

Reliability Model for u-Health SW's BMT (u-Health SW의 BMT를 위한 신뢰성 모델)

  • Chung, Sam-Sool;Yang, Hae-Sool
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.80-89
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    • 2010
  • u-Health refers to "Always, ubiquitously" prevention against disease, diagnosis, medical treatment service that can receive treatment even if patient does not visit hospital as abbreviated word of ubiquitous and health. U-Health transmits in individual's living body sign and measuring of health information and health information system that is consisted of process of analysis and feedback transmiting and measure individual's living body signal and health information and health proprietary company or medical institution operates. If analyze pattern to information that health information system is transmited, health care officer or chief physician means that offer healthcare and medical treatment service to remote about target customer. Wish to present authoritativeness model for u-Health's inside and outside of the country same native place and u-Health's BMT in this research.

Development of an Ubiquitous Healthcare System based on Health Information Exchange Standards (건강정보 교환 표준에 기반한 유비쿼터스 헬스케어 시스템 개발)

  • Lee, In-Keun;Kim, Hwa-Sun;Cho, Hune
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.273-280
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    • 2012
  • As changed the clinical environment, the interest on u-Healthcare service and systems has been increased. The ubiquitous healthcare(u-Healthcare) systems are constructed at the integrated environment that consists of various devices and systems basically such as personal health devices(PHDs) measuring body signals, information aggregators gathering the data transmitted from PHDs through wireless technology, and health information systems storing and managing personal health information transmitted from the information aggregators. International standards such as IEEE 11073 and HL7 have been specified for the interoperability of PHDs and health information systems, but the research on u-Healthcare systems that were developed and applied in the real clinical environment by adopting the standards was rarely conducted. Therefore, we developed an u-Healthcare system which can manage personal health information, such as blood glucose, blood pressure, and body composition, based on health information exchange standards. Moreover, we verified the stability of the developed system through clinical trial in patients with endocrine disease at the Kyungpook National University Hospital, and listed problems occurred during clinical trial and found their solutions.