• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.67-70
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• 2006

A distributed healthcare monitoring system prototype for clinical and trauma patients was developed, using wireless sensor network node. The proposed system aimed to measure various vital physiological health parameters like ECG and body temperature of patients and elderly persons, and transfer his/her health status wirelessly in Ad-hoc network to remote base station which was connected to doctor's PDA/PC or to a hospital's main Server using wireless sensor node. The system also aims to save the cost of healthcare facility for patients and the operating power of the system because sensor network is deployed widely and the distance from sensor to base station was shorter than in general centralized system. The wireless data communication will follow IEEE 802.15.4 frequency communication with ad-hoc routing thus enabling every motes attached to patients, to form a wireless data network to send data to base-station, providing mobility and convenience to the users in home environment.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.21 no.3 s.61
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• pp.255-260
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• 2000

This paper presents a radio-telemetry patient monitor. which is used for intensive cal?e units. emergency and surgical operation rooms to monitor continuously patients' vital signs. The radio-telemetry patient monitor consists of a vital sign acquisition unit. wireless data transmission units and a vital sign-monitoring unit. The vital sign acquisition unit amplifies biological signals, performs analog signal to serial digital data conversion using the one chip micro-controller. The converted digital data is modulated FSK in UHF band using low output power and transmitted to a remote site in door. In comparison with analog modulation. FSK has major advantages to improve performance with respect to noise resistance with fower error and the potential ability to process and Improve quality of the received data. The vital sign-monitoring unit consists of the receiver to demodulate the modulated digital data, the LCD monitor to display vital signs continuously and the thermal head printer to record a signal.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38C no.7
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• pp.630-642
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• 2013

To transmit vital signal stream of mobile patients remotely, it requires mobility of patient and watcher, sensing function of patient's abnormal symptom and self-organizing service binding of related computing resources. In the existing relative researches, the vital signal stream is transmitted as a centralized approach which exposure the single point of failure itself and incur data traffic to central server although it is localized service. Self-organizing middleware platform based on heterogenous overlay network is a middleware platform which can transmit real-time data from sensor device(including vital signal measure devices) to Smartphone, TV, PC and external system through overlay network applied self-organizing mechanism. It can transmit and save vital signal stream from sensor device autonomically without arbitration of management server and several receiving devices can simultaneously receive and display through interaction of nodes in real-time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.759-763
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 가정 내에서 보다 편리하게 건강모니터링을 수행하기 위한 홈헬스케어용 휴대형 건강모니터링 시스템을 구현하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 전문 의료인의 도움을 받지 않고도 일반인들이 쉽게 측정할 수 있으며, 많은 건강정보를 포함하고 있는 생체신호인 심전도, 맥파 그리고 체온을 동시에 모니터링 할 수 있는 다중생체 계측 시스템을 구현하였다. 구현된 생체계측 시스템은 신호검출을 위한 센서부, 각각의 생체신호를 증폭 및 필터링하기 위한 아날로그 신호처리부, 아날로그신호를 디지털로 변환하여 처리하고, 시스템 주변장치를 제어하기 위한 시스템제어부로 구성되었다. 또한 근거리 무선통신을 통해 시스템 자체에서의 생체신호 모니터링뿐만 PC등의 홈서버 상에서 무선모니터링이 가능하며, 웹을 통해 원격지에서도 생체신호의 모니터 링이 가능한 시스템을 구현하였다. 구현된 시스템의 성능평가 결과 홈헬스케어를 위한 원격 건강모니터링의 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.49 no.9
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• pp.379-385
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• 2012

This paper suggests U-healthcare system for individual health management realizing the gateway, client, and Java-based network server by using the vital signal measuring system and android-based mobile platform. This study realized the vital signal measuring system based on the technology to measure the ECG, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, and respiration, etc. And all the information of measurement was transmitted to the mobile gateway using the 3-bite transmission protocol consisting of headers and data. The data transmitted to the mobile gateway was used to examine the mobile client's personal health indexes through the network server. This paper realized and tested the android-based gateway, client, and the broadcasting network server and verified their validity with simulations and actual humans. As a result, the U-healthcare system suggested was proved to be effective in managing each individual's health from short distance and long distance. And it could examine each individual's health conditions in real-time and was found to be advantageous in that it could secure the guardian's mobility.