• DocumentCode
    1928926
  • Title

    Implementation and Evaluation of a Ubiquitous Health Monitoring System

  • Author

    Yamazaki, Akira ; Koyama, Akio ; Arai, Junpei ; Barolli, Leonard

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf., Yamagata Univ., Yamagata
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    16-19 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    367
  • Lastpage
    374
  • Abstract
    In recent years, because of the birthrate declining and the elderly peoplepsilas population growing, the lack of doctors and the increase of the medical cost is becoming a big problem. One of solution for this problem is to prevent the humans from diseases in order to reduce the medical cost (e.g. by using the hospital as few times as possible). In this research, we have developed a wearable vital sensor which can be used anywhere without disrupting the everyday life of the patient. Furthermore, we have implemented a ubiquitous health monitoring system, which can confirm and share the sensor information received from a cellular phone attached to the wearable vital sensor immediately through the browser. This system can also send emergency report based on sensor information to the family and the doctor. In addition, we verified the system effectiveness by evaluating the implemented system.
  • Keywords
    biosensors; health care; mobile computing; patient care; wearable computers; browser; cellular phone; diseases; medical cost; patient; sensor information; ubiquitous health monitoring system; wearable vital sensor; Biomedical monitoring; Cellular phones; Costs; Diseases; Hospitals; Humans; Patient monitoring; Senior citizens; Sensor systems; Wearable sensors; Cellular Phone; Health Monitoring; Sensor; Ubiquitous; Waist Sensor;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 2009. CISIS '09. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Fukuoka
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3569-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3575-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CISIS.2009.143
  • Filename
    5066810