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Development Brief of A Body Area Network for Ubiquitous Healthcare : An Introduction to Ubiquitous Biomedical Systems Development Center

  • Hong Joo-Hyun;Kim Nam-Jin;Cha Eun-Jong;Lee Tae-Soo
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.331-335
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    • 2005
  • The fusion technology of small sensor and wireless communication was followed by various application examples of the embedded system, where the social infrastructural facilities and ecological environment were wirelessly monitored. In addition, this technology represents the primary application area being extended into the healthcare field. In this study, a body area network for ubiquitous healthcare is presented. More specifically this represents a wireless biomedical signal acquisition device characterized by small size, low power consumption, pre-processing and archiving capability. Using this device, a new method for monitoring vital signs and activity is created. A PDA-based wireless sensor network enables patients to be monitored during their daily living, without any constraints. Therefore, the proposed method can be used to develop Activities of Daily Living (ADL) monitoring devices for the elderly or movement impaired people. A medical center would be able to remotely monitor the current state of elderly people and support first-aid in emergency cases. In addition, this method will reduce medical costs in society, where the average life expectancy is increasing.

A Study on Residential Modification Demand by Elderly Lived in Detached Housing - Focusing on Application of Ubiquitous Home Services - (단독주택 거주 노인의 주택개조 요구에 관한 연구 - 유비쿼터스 홈 서비스 적용을 중심으로 -)

  • Ha, Hae-Hwa;Kwon, Oh-Jung
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.141-151
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    • 2012
  • Korea is a fast growing aging society. Growing older population causes various social issues and problems in many aspects. Housing issue is one of them and residential modifications for improving safety and independence for older residents are very important factor for Aging in Place. Under those social circumstances, the purpose of this study was to analyze the residential modification demand by the elderly on the application of ubiquitous home services. Respondents were the residents those who were over 55 years old, were living in a singe detached house and were able to use a computer. The major findings of this study were as follows: the results on current situations and demands for residential modifications showed that respondents already made mean of 4.9 home modification items and wanted to make mean of 12.4 items out of 21 residential modification items. The results on demands for the ubiquitous home services was relatively high(mean 3.82). This study can be an important information which is able to improve the quality of life by providing effective residential modifications for older population to help them ultimately safe, convenient, and independent living.

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A Study on the Management and Application for Prevention Information Communication System (방재정보통신시스템 관리 운용 및 응용에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Heau-Jo
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.611-618
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    • 2008
  • The development of information society together with information telecommunication's influence on the human society is a ripple effect and getting wider. Among those ripple effects the disaster prevention is in the public eye in the present day. On the way to the ubiquitous society the main techniques to be concerned in ubiquitous sensor networks are the field of damage of storm and flood, safety facilities, traffic safety, industrial safety, energy safety, fire fighting, specific safety of radioactivity escape incident, environmental pollution, sea pollution, mountain and forrest disaster so on. In this paper the USN technique based on the disaster prevention communication technology service and its requirement technology and application are studied.

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A wireless sensor network approach to enable location awareness in ubiquitous healthcare applications

  • Singh, Vinay Kumar;Lim, Hyo-Taek;Chung, Wan-Young
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.277-285
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we outline the research issues that we are pursuing towards building of location aware environments for mainly ubiquitous healthcare applications. Such location aware application can provide what is happening in this space. To locate an object, such as patient or elderly person, the active ceiling-mounted reference beacons were placed throughout the building. Reference beacons periodically publish location information on RF and ultrasonic signals to allow application running on mobile or static nodes to study and determine their physical location. Once object-carried passive listener receives the information, it subsequently determines it's location from reference beacons. The cost of the system was reduced while the accuracy in our experiments was fairly good and fine grained between 7 and 12 cm for location awareness in indoor environments by using only the sensor nodes and wireless sensor network technology. Passive architecture used here provides the security of the user privacy while at the server the privacy was secured by providing the authentication using Geopriv approach. This information from sensor nodes is further forwarded to base station where further computation is performed to determine the current position of object.

Design of Smart Campus based on Ubiquitous Environment (유비쿼터스 환경 기반 스마트 캠퍼스 설계)

  • Kim, Soon-gohn
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.211-218
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we proceed with the design and development platform for the development of the optimized applications to take advantage of the sensing techniques of the mobile device, so that this can proactively respond to the user's needs, and can provide access to a range of services. Ubiquitous environment based smart campus is active rather than passive, university will be able to promote the true personal customizable services. Campus tours through augmented reality will support more active university life in conjunction with a variety of services to promote actively utilizing the QR Code(2-dimensional bar code). In addition, we designed to develop a mobile application that can provide such a view and post announcements such as integrated system, through interoperability with existing bachelor's administrative (legacy) system.

Design and Application of the u-SM Teaching and Learning Model for an Efficient Ubiquitous Learning (효율적인 유비쿼터스 학습을 위한 u-SM 교수학습모형 설계 및 적용)

  • Kim, Sang-Hong;Joo, Kil-Hong
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.235-244
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    • 2008
  • According to develop the computer and communication technology, recently educational environment is growing to ubiquitous learning with direction which select the studying content, studying time and a studying order oneself. In order to raise effect of studying in the ubiquitous learning(u-Learning), the help or advice of the specialist is necessary earnestly. Accordingly, if it will combine the scaffolding and the mentoring in the u-Learning, a studying effect will be maximize. This paper design the u-SM(Scaffolding and Mentoring) teaching and learning model which applies the scaffolding and e-mentoring. In addition, it embodies and applies the designed u-SM model. Then it examines it affects in studying achievements and attitudes of students and verifies the application possibility of the u-SM teaching and learning.

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Bird's-Eye View Service under Ubiquitous Transportation Sensor Network Environments (Ubiquitous Transportation Sensor Network에서 Bird's-Eye View 서비스)

  • Kim, Joohwan;Nam, Doohee;Baek, Sungjoon
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.225-231
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    • 2013
  • A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird, often used in the making of blueprints, floor plans and maps. It can be used under severe weather conditions when visibility is poor. Under low visibility environments, drivers can communicate each other using V2V communication to get each vehicle's status to prevent collision and other accidents. Ubiquitous transportation sensor networks(u-TSN) and its application are emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm to provide reliable and comfortable transportatione services. The ever-growing u-TSN and its application will provide an intelligent and ubiquitous communication and network technology for traffic safety area.

A Clinical Protocol Development Methodology for Ubiquitous Healthcare Service (유비쿼터스 헬스케어 서비스를 위한 태스크 중심의 임상 프로토콜 개발 방법론)

  • Hwang, Kyoung-Soon;Kim, Wun-Jea;Lee, Chan-Hee;Lee, Keon-Myung
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.66-75
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    • 2010
  • With the advances in ubiquitous service infrastructure, healthcare services have drawn attention as one of promising application domains. In ubiquitous healthcare services, patients or care-givers as well as medical personnel are asked to play their roles and, in addition, the information system is supposed to have active roles. In medicine, clinical protocols have been developed and put into practice in order to reduce treatment variances and assure the service quality. In the same token, clinical protocols on ubiquitous service practices are need to be developed which takes into account both the clinical details and the ubiquitous service functionality. This paper introduces a clinical protocol modeling methodology which pays attention to participants and their tasks including contextual information. The proposed method has been successfully applied to a real application domain, OAB(overactive bladder) syndrome patient care to see how it builds a clinical protocol.

Architecture of RFID Application Services for Ubiquitous Computing (유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅을 위한 RFID 응용 서비스 아키텍처에 관한 연구)

  • Lee Sang-Jo;Cho Tae-Beom;Yunn Hwa-Mook;Kim Chang-Su;Jung Hoe-Kyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.1011-1014
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    • 2006
  • Recently, The Ubiquitous Computing which appears by issue in the latest IT field is actualized possibility and interest intensively becomes in many disciplines through rapid advancement of the network and the semiconductor. RFID is a base technology of the Ubiquitous Computing and it is technology to identifies information of the electronic tag which attaches in the object. and it guides the commercial business anger of Ubiquitous Computing. But currently, most of RFID research is becoming intensively in hardware field as tag and leader, whereas the research of software field relativy is insufficient. In this paper, we compared and analyzed architecture of existing which uses the RFID to rise point of Ubiquitous Computing then we complemented the problem point which is analyzed and proposed a new architecture to provides an intelligence application service.

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A study on unmanned watch system using ubiquitous sensor network technology (유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크 기술을 활용한 무인감시체계 연구)

  • Wee, Kyoum-Bok
    • Journal of National Security and Military Science
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    • s.7
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    • pp.271-303
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    • 2009
  • "Ubiquitous sensor network" definition is this-Someone attaches electro-magnetic tag everything which needs communication between man to man, man to material and material to material(Ubiquitous). By using attached every electro-magnetic tag, someone detects it's native information as well as environmental information such as temperature, humidity, pollution and infiltration information(Sensor). someone connects it realtime network and manage generated information(Network). 21st century's war is joint combined operation connecting with ground, sea and air smoothly in digitalized war field, and is systematic war provided realtime information from sensor to shooter. So, it needs dramatic development on watch reconnaissance, command and control, pinpoint strike etc. Ubiquitous computing and network technologies are essential in national defense to operate 21st century style war. It is possible to use many parts such as USN combined smart dust and sensor network to protect friend unit as well as to watch enemy's deep area by unmanned reconnaissance, wearable computer upgrading soldier's operational ability and combat power dramatically, RFID which can be used material management as well as on time support. Especially, unmanned watch system using USN is core part to transit network centric military service and to get national defense efficiency which overcome the dilemma of national defense person resource reducing, and upgrade guard quality level, and improve combat power by normalizing guardian's bio rhythm. According to the test result of sensor network unmanned watch system, it needs more effort and time to stabilize because of low USN technology maturity and using maturity. In the future, USN unmanned watch system project must be decided the application scope such as application area and starting point by evaluating technology maturity and using maturity. And when you decide application scope, you must consider not only short period goal as cost reduction, soldier decrease and guard power upgrade but also long period goal as advanced defense ability strength. You must build basic infra in advance such as light cable network, frequency allocation and power facility etc. First of all, it must get budget guarantee and driving force for USN unmanned watch system project related to defense policy. You must forwarded the USN project assuming posses of operation skill as procedure, system, standard, training in advance. Operational skill posses is come from step by step application strategy such as test phase, introduction phase, spread phase, stabilization phase and also repeated test application taking example project.

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