• 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.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.284-288
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• 2016

Among the various physiological information that could be obtained from human body, heartbeat rate is a commonly used vital sign in the clinical milieu. Photoplethysography (PPG) sensor is incorporated into many wearable healthcare devices because of its advantages such as simplicity of hardware structure and low-cost. However, healthcare device employing PPG sensor has been issued in susceptibility of light and motion artifact. In this paper, to develop the real-time heart rate measurement device that is less sensitive to the external noises, we have fabricated an ultra-small wireless LC resonant pressure sensor by MEMS process. After performance evaluation in linearity and repeatability of the MEMS pressure sensor, heartbeat waveform and rate on radial artery were obtained by using resonant frequency-pressure conversion method. The measured data using the proposed heartbeat rate measurement system was validated by comparing it with the data of an commercialized heart rate measurement device. Result of the proposed device was agreed well to that of the commercialized device. The obtained real time heartbeat wave and rate were displayed on personal mobile system by bluetooth communication.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.1102-1108
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• 2008

Wearable physiological signal monitoring systems are regarded as an important sensing unit platforms in ubiquitous/mobile healthcare application. In this paper, we suggested the modified bipolar electrodes implemented on the portable heart activity monitoring system, which minimized the distance of electrodes formed on a attachable pad. The proposed electrode configuration is useful in mobile measurement environments, but has a disadvantage of reduced amplitude of the heart action potential. In order to overcome the shortcoming of the suggested electrode configuration, we implemented the amplifying circuit to increase the signal-gain and decrease the artifacts. For evaluations, we analyzed the specificity of measured cardiography using the proposed electrodes through the comparing of heart activity monitoring system with standard clinical ECG(lead2) by pearson correlation coefficients. The result showed that the average correlation coefficient is $0.903{\pm}0.036,\;0.873{\pm}0.072$ at V3, V4 chest lead position, respectively. Thus, the modified bipolar electrode is quite suitable to monitor the electrical activity of the heart in the situation of the mobile environment, and could be considered having high similarity with standard clinical ECG.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.233-236
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• 2010

This paper describes the packet traffic management of the Ubiquitous Healthcare System. In this system, ECG signal and accelerometer signal is transmitted from a wearable health shirt (WHS) to the base station. However, with the increment of users in this system, traffic over-load issue occurs. The main aim of this paper is to reduce the traffic over-load issue between sensor nodes by only transmitting the required signals to the base station when irregular activities are observed. In order to achieve this, in-network processing is adapted where the process of observation is conducted inside the sensor node of WHS. Results shows that irregular activities such as fall can be detected on real-time inside the sensor node and thus resolves traffic over-load issue.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.2435-2441
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 M2M 기반의 글로벌 헬스케어 모니터링 시스템을 구축하여 헬스케어 분야에 있어 기존의 센서네트워크의 확장성과 이동성을 보완하여 더욱더 안정적이고 신뢰성 있는 건강상태 정보를 제공하고자 하였다. 센서 노드는 웨어러블 심전도 및 맥파 센서와 결합되어 있으며, 각각의 생체신호를 수집하여 IEEE 802.15.4 표준 프로토콜과 6LoWPAN 프로토콜을 통해 외부 인터넷 망을 거쳐 서버로 전송한다. 또한 서버 프로그램은 측정된 생체신호를 통해 HRV 신호를 검출하였으며, HRV 신호를 이용한 시간 영역 및 주파수 영역 분석을 통해 환자의 스트레스 상태를 판단하도록 하였다. 이로써 제안된 시스템은 기존의 네트워크 인프라를 최대한 활용할 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있으며, 각각의 센서노드에 IP를 부여하여 헬스케어 서비스의 적용범위가 좁은 지역을 벗어나 범국가적으로 확대될 수 있도록 하였다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.161-168
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• 2018

Recently, the bio-sensing information systems for collecting and analysing human body information of a patient in real time in the field of medical information and healthcare information service are continuously increasing. Specially, various wearable devices such as a wrist, a garment, and a skin attachment type for supporting health information of a mobile user are rapidly increasing. Until now, there is no patch-type biometric information service model. Therefore, this paper presents a biometric information system model and the application examples to support biometric information sensing and health information service of mobile user with digital patch system as a new biometric information system. As a result, through this research, research issues based on digital patch system are searched to suggest the direction of continuous research.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권8호
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• pp.32-42
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• 2024

The Internet of Things (IoT) is set to transform patient care by enhancing data collection, analysis, and management through medical sensors and wearable devices. However, the convergence of IoT device vulnerabilities and the sensitivity of healthcare data raises significant data integrity and privacy concerns. In response, this research introduces the Smart-Coord system, a practical and affordable solution for securing healthcare IoT. Smart-Coord leverages blockchain technology and coordinate-based access management to fortify healthcare IoT. It employs IPFS for immutable data storage and intelligent Solidity Ethereum contracts for data integrity and confidentiality, creating a hierarchical, AES-CBC-secured data transmission protocol from IoT devices to blockchain repositories. Our technique uses a unique coordinate system to embed confidentiality and integrity regulations into a single access control model, dictating data access and transfer based on subject-object pairings in a coordinate plane. This dual enforcement technique governs and secures the flow of healthcare IoT information. With its implementation on the Matic network, the Smart-Coord system's computational efficiency and cost-effectiveness are unparalleled. Smart-Coord boasts significantly lower transaction costs and data operation processing times than other blockchain networks, making it a practical and affordable solution. Smart-Coord holds the promise of enhancing IoT-based healthcare system security by managing sensitive health data in a scalable, efficient, and secure manner. The Smart-Coord framework heralds a new era in healthcare IoT adoption, expertly managing data integrity, confidentiality, and accessibility to ensure a secure, reliable digital environment for patient data management.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.86-92
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• 2017

고령화 인구 증가에 따른 만성질환자, 노약자 및 독거인의 일상생활에서 위험하거나 불안정한 건강 상태를 관리할 수 있는 요구가 커지고 있다. 최근 무선 통신 기술의 발달로 특정한 장소에 구애받지 않고 언제 어디서나 개인의 건강 상태를 감시할 수 있는 장치가 주목 받고 있다. 본 논문은 생체 신호로 심박수와 체온을 주기적으로 측정하고 밴드 착용자의 나이와 측정된 생체 신호를 토대로 건강관리가 필요함을 알리는 팔목형 건강관리용 밴드를 개발하는 것이 목적이다. 나이, 체온 및 심박수 사이의 정상 범위 관계는 비선형이고 측정된 생체 신호는 오차를 포함 부정확하기 때문에 생체 신호 기반의 건강관리 판정에는 부정확하고 애매한 정보의 처리가 필요하다. 본 논문은 이런 문제를 해결하기 위해 부정확하고 애매한 정보를 처리하는데 적합한 퍼지 논리 기반의 건강관리 판정 시스템을 밴드에 구현한다. 밴드에 연동해 동작하는 건강관리 앱(Apps)도 함께 개발된다. 앱은 측정 데이터를 저장, 관리하며 밴드에서 건강관리가 필요한 신호가 감지되면 앱에 사전 등록된 보호자 또는 간병인에게 해당 정보를 전송한다.

• 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.

• 센서학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.118-123
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• 2011

Heart related diseases mainly caused by heavy work load and increasing stress in human daily life. Therefore, researches on mobile healthcare monitoring for daily life has been carried out. Notably, wearable healthcare monitoring system which has least restriction has been tried to provide an emergency alert of abnormal heart rate. In this study, we developed chair type unconstrained BCG measurement system which able to perform continuous heart status monitoring at the office and daily life in the unconstrained way. Furthermore, adaptive threshold is used to detect the heart rate from BCG signals. The HRV(heart rate variability) is calculated from heart rate interval. ECG signal measured using conventional method and BCG signal measured using unconstraint system are carried out simultaneously for the purpose of performance evaluation. From the comparison result, BCG signal shows a similar heart beat characteristic as ECG signal. This proves the possibility of practical implementation of unconstraint healthcare monitoring system. In addition, medical examination like valsalva maneuver is performed to observe the changes in HRV due to stress. By performing valsalva maneuver, heart is said to be placed under an artificial physical stress condition. Under this artificial physical stress condition, the time and frequency domain of HRV parameters are evaluated.