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Wearable medical sensors (WMSs) are garnering ever-increasing attention from both the scientific community and the industry. Driven by technological advances in sensing, wireless communication, and machine learning, WMS-based systems have begun transforming our daily lives. Although WMSs were initially developed to enable low-cost solutions for continuous health monitoring, the applications of WMS-based...
In this paper, we study how mobile computing and wireless technologies can be explored to provide effective ubiquitous healthcare services. Instead of reinventing the wheels, we make use of smartphones, off-the-shelf components, and existing technologies in ubiquitous computing (i.e. wireless and mobile positioning technologies, and data acquisition techniques and processing via sensors) to develop...
This study presents the design and development of a wearable ubiquitous healthcare monitoring system using integrated electrocardiogram (ECG), Photoplethysmogratphy(PPG), Skin Temperature and Accelerometer etc. In this design, non-intrusive healthcare system was designed based on WBAN for wide area coverage with minimum battery power to support RF transmission. In this system, WBAN(wireless body area...
Non-invasive and contact-less monitoring and low power wireless communication is very much demanding in medical and smart home scenarios for health care monitoring system. Here, we present a novel integrated solution for health care monitoring system specially for heart beat variability (HBV). Both sensing and communication is based on the Frequency Modulated Ultra Wide Band technology. Moreover,...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is neoteric progressing technology which addresses solutions to critical application environments. It allows the assimilation of medical sensors to form a group scenario which makes it feasible to remotely collect and communicate the physiological signals of a patient, thus preventing the patient from being tied to a particular set of monitoring medical instruments and...
Fetal mortality rate is considered a good measure of the quality of health care in a country or a medical facility. If we look at the current scenario, we find that we have focused more on child mortality rate than on fetus mortality. Even it is a same situation in developed country. Our aim is to provide technological solutions to help decrease the fetal mortality rate. Also if we consider pregnant...
In recent years, Personalized, Predictive, Preventive, and Participatory health care have become more than just buzzwords. Silicon is playing an important enabling role in this gradual, but certain revolution of our healthcare system: Silicon will become more essential, in view of the many challenges in realizing ubiquitous monitoring, real-time diagnostics, and patient-centric therapies. By reviewing...
Applications of sensor networks in healthcare have undergone major changes in recent times. Implanted wireless sensor devices inside the human body to monitor the activities are a reality now. A new field called the Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN or BAN) has emerged as a hot research area. To fulfill the needs for a common standard and solve the issues in this emerging field, IEEE has proposed...
A wireless sensor network may be a new group monitoring system for chicken health because huge numbers of chickens were reared in the same physical constitution at the farms. Although a lot of health monitoring system using sensor network have been developed for animals, there is few researches of the monitoring system for a huge number, such as 0.1 billion, of creatures. In this research, we have...
As the demand for personalized service increases, many researchers are interested in the wireless body area network (WBAN) including in-body and on-body communications. This paper provides an enhanced MAC framework based on IEEE 802.15.4 which may be one of the promising technologies for WBAN. The proposed scheme covers the functions of polling access, emergency transmission, and 2-hop network extension...
Lately, Advancement in wireless technology and biomedical sensor nodes provide a good platform for ubiquitous healthcare development. In this paper, we propose a brand new concept for ballistorcardiogram(BCG) monitoring system which is implementing wireless sensor node to transmit BCG signal to a base station in hospital for long term monitoring and easy BCG analysis purpose. We design a chair type...
In this paper, we focus on the problem of constructing an information gain model for stroke prevention in Ubiquitous Healthcare (U-Health) Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). We have constructed an information-based probabilistic relation model among the key indicators and sequenced their data gathering priority and precedence in the WBAN. Then, we constructed a cost function over the energy expenditure...
Vital sensor and wireless information communication technologies play important roles in providing continuous health monitoring systems. The key elements required for the vital sensor device are its simplicity and accuracy, whereas those for the wireless communication tool are its connectivity and comfortability. For a commercially available wireless vital sensor with capability of measuring three-dimensional...
Traditional healthcare/medical services are intended for medical treatments, but recent services have increased the prevalence of preventive medicine programs gearing toward curbing the expanding cost of social security costs. In this paper, we explain the enhanced ubiquitous healthcare/medical system (E-UMe) and body area networks (BANs) within it. A BAN contains two types of sensor. One is to be...
In this paper indoor wireless Infrared (IR) technology for healthcare monitoring is studied. Monitoring provides a continuous and reliable vital sign measurement to secure patient staying in the hospital. Considering that patient moving is inevitable, we focus on a mobile IR channel based on diffuse propagation. A model of mobile channel is developed through the study of statistical distributions...
This paper presents the research and development of a novel design and implementation of the light electric vehicle for the homecare of elderly use. The research efforts of one-year integration project is reported and discussed. Along with the developed web-based interactive platform, the aspects of user needs, application feedbacks, and human factors may be taken into account in research and development...
The concept of wellness mobile is a novel mobile service wherein wireless handheld devices such as cell phones are equipped with a wellness monitoring application, thereby enabling real-time self-wellness monitoring by the cell phone user. The wellness mobile will provide a safe and protective environment for an increasing cell phone user-population to help combat anti-wellness factors such as stress,...
In this paper, a fuzzy-based information monitoring and communication system especially developed for helping care givers to provide better care to the cared person in a healthcare center is introduced. The fuzzy-based expert system is also developed to conduct the analysis of care-receivers' vital signs which are collected from the vital sign sensors carried by the cared person who maybe stays inside...
By adding a wireless sensor network into a health monitoring system, I have found a method by using the combination of ZigBee and wireless LAN architecture to realize a remote medical monitoring system. The system's nodes and base stations use the short range communication standard: 802.15.4 / ZigBee standard. This system can collect various information from patients, achieving the remote medical...
Wireless sensor networks have today emerged as a feasible infrastructure for healthcare applications. This paper addresses the non-trivial performance problems in contention-based wireless networks. We present a method for admission control in contention-based networks, implemented as a component of a performance management system. The test results show that admission control can improve the predictability...
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