• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.417-424
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• 2006

An ubiquitous healthcare monitoring system for elderly person at home was designed for continuous healthy monitoring of elderly person or patients. Human vital signals, such as ECG and body temperature, were monitored by terminal PC or PDA via ECG and temperature sensor nodes on the patient's body. From the ECG data, the heart rate, tachycardia, bradycardia and arrhythmia were diagnosed on the terminal PC or PDA to assist doctor's or nurse's aid or patient itself to monitor the patient's condition and give medical examination. Artificial judgement support system was designed in server computer and the system support a doctor or nurser for management or treatment of the patient. This system can be applied to vital signal monitoring system for solitude elderly person at self house or home health care service part. And this ubiquitous healthcare system can reduce the medical expenses in coming aging or aged society.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.111-125
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• 2004

In this paper, we applied user-centered context to Smart Home Applications. Current research activities on smart home have just focused on the infrastructure without considering user's contexts and implementation cost. We first realized the user-centered personalized services using ubi-UCAM (a Unified Context-aware Application Model), which exploited contexts from various kinds of smart sensors. We, then, verified its usefulness in the ubiquitous computing-enabled home environment. It can be extended to various application areas since it guarantees independence between sensors and services. Accordingly, it will play a key role in future smart home environment.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.15D no.3
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• pp.411-420
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• 2008

This paper implemented the u-Healthcare Context Information System (HCIS) supporting ubiquitous healthcare by using location, health and titrating environment information collected from sensors/devices equipped in home for healthcare home service. The HCIS is based on the Distributed Object Group Framework (DOGF), a management model which can customize distributed resources, and manages various context information, applications and devices as a group in healthcare home environment, as one more logical units. Also, this system provides continuous healthcare multimedia service considering a resident's location using Mobile Proxy, and the healthcare context information through Context Provider to a resident in home. For verifying execution of our system, we implemented the seamless multimedia service based on resident's location and the prescription/advice and schedule notification/alarm service as healthcare applications in home. And we showed the executing results of healthcare home service by using service device existed in the residential space on which the resident is located according to the healthcare scenario.

• Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Health Care Nursing
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.18-22
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• 2007

Purpose: The rapid change to an aging society generates an increase in the incidence of chronic diseases. Many chronic patients have been facing their illnesses without enough preparation. In order to solve these problems, we designed and tested a public healthcare service based on ubiquitous technology. Method: Telemedicine has emerged as new medical care system of chronic disease. However, public potential of its technology is difficult to know under current traditional health care system. In this work, we developed a Personal Digital Access (PDA) phone based healthcare system by trained visiting nurses for elderly patients. A field test was performed by SeongBuk Public Health Center in Seoul, Republic of Korea (ROK). Result: Surveys were generated to assess the effects of this system compared to conventional public health system. Findings of trials demonstrate that healthcare coordination enhanced by PDA phone technology is satisfactory to the patients and nurses compared to previous one because prompt responses arouse their recognition of health. Conclusion: Ubiquitous healthcare system applied to public health service proved to be efficient and time-saving to monitor and control the chronic illnesses of large population.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.4 s.42
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• pp.165-174
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• 2006

As context aware service supports a process of context acquisition and reasoning, there are many studies to facilitate the implementation of context aware service. However, these studies have not supported efficiently a user or service mobility that should be supported necessarily in ubiquitous computing environment. Therefore, this study proposes a dynamic context aware service model which supports a dynamic management of context information, service retrieval and composition for interactions between services, and service mobility. Then we design a middleware based on this model and implement the middleware. As the middleware is implemented on the OSGi framework. it can have an interoperability between the devices such as computers, PDA, home appliances, and sensors, because of using the standard interface technologies like UPnP. Jini and so on.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.269-273
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• 2008

In ubiquitous environments, clients move between domains freely and its activities in the other domains are growth. Like this environment, the service provider makes access or activity records what they are provided to clients. This record can make a privacy problem to recognize a person or trace some works. So this record must be kept and managed by user instead of the service provider. In this paper, we propose a system that can gather those records from the service provider to home domain server which client's managing by themselves. In addition, if remote domain manager requests that record by the legal process, system can transfer only a range of information which allowed by client to keep personal privacy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.285-288
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• 2004

스마트 홈은 유비쿼터스 환경의 각종 센서와 정보가전에서 얻어지는 데이터에서 사용자의 Context를 추출하여 사용자에게 적응적인 서비스를 제공한다 지금까지의 Context는 사용자가 한 명일 경우를 가정하였지만 실제 집이라는 공간은 가족이라는 구성원이 함께 생활하는 공간으로 동시에 여러 개의 Context가 존재하며 이러한 Context는 서로 충돌할 수도 있다. 본 논문에서는 집에서 여러 Context들 간에 충돌이 일어났을 때 이를 해결하는 방법을 제안한다. 집은 여러 사용자가 공유하고 있지만 각 구성원의 침실이나 화장실처럼 한 개인의 영역이 존재한다 또한 침실은 쉬는 곳, 주방은 요리를 하고 음식을 먹는 곳, 거실은 가족끼리의 모임을 갖거나 TV 시청, 음악감상 등의 여가를 즐기는 곳 등 공간마다 나름의 용도를 가지고 있다 본 논문은 Context들간의 충돌을 조정을 위해 이러한 공간의 특성을 이용할 것을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.9
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• pp.17-26
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• 2011

Many types of services appear in a ubiquitous environment promulgated by the evolution of web service technology with the advances in wireless network technologies and mobile computing devices. These services differ according to their location environments, such as home, office, airport, and exhibition. It is required that a different set of services dynamically drops into the mobile user's device depending on their context and the distributed localized services are efficiently managed to seamlessly provide these localized services to the user. This paper proposes an Autonomic Service Composition System (ASCS) to provide useful services to the user with minimal or no effort for service selection. ASCS seamlessly installs the programs of localized services in the user's mobile device. It automatically provides localized services to users that are in the local service zone. Also ASCS can manage distributed localized services remotely and efficiently. ASCS is composed of a Remote Manager, Service Gateway, and Mobile Device. The prototype implementation uses 802.11b Wireless Network and Bundles using the OSGi Framework.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.298-302
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• 2009

This paper proposes a single sign-on scheme in which a mobile user offers his credential information to a home network running the OSGi (Open Service Gateway Initiative) service platform, to obtain user authentication and control a remote device through a mobile device using this authentication scheme, based on SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language). Especially by defining the single sign-on profile to overcome the handicap of the low computing and memory capability of the mobile device, we provide a clue to applying automated user authentication to control a remote device via a mobile device for distributed mobile environments such as a home network based on OSGi.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.486-494
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• 2014

Intelligent homes consist of ubiquitous sensors, home networks, and a context-aware computing system. These homes are expected to offer many services such as intelligent air-conditioning, lighting control, health monitoring, and home security. In order to realize these services, many researchers have worked on various research topics including smart sensors with low power consumption, home network protocols, resident and location detection, context-awareness, and scenario and service control. This paper presents the real-time metabolic rate estimation method that is based on measured heart rate for human adaptive appliance (air-conditioner, lighting etc.). This estimation results can provide valuable information to control smart appliances so that they can adjust themselves according to the status of residents. The heart rate based method has been experimentally compared with the location-based method on a test bed.