A pervasive telemedicine system exploiting the DVB-T technology

Author

Angius, Gianmarco ; Pani, Danilo ; Raffo, Luigi ; Seruis, Stefano ; Randaccio, Paolo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Cagliari, Cagliari

fYear

2008

fDate

Jan. 30 2008-Feb. 1 2008

Firstpage

228

Lastpage

231

Abstract

Telemedicine is a form of remote assistance to patients unable to easily reach the hospitals. The diffusion of such systems depends both on the availability of widespread low-cost platforms and on the ease of use. In this paper, a DVB-T based platform for telemedicine is presented. The proposed system enables to perform simple routine exams through a low-cost Base Station connected to the patientpsilas DVB-T set-top box, using the remote control and the TV screen as I/O interfaces for the user. The uplink connection is used to send the results to a remote care center. The practice with such home-entertainment equipment allows even elderly people to easily exploit the proposed platform.

Keywords

digital video broadcasting; health care; patient care; telemedicine; ubiquitous computing; DVB-T technology; I/O interfaces; TV screen; home-entertainment equipment; low-cost base station; patient DVB-T set-top box; pervasive telemedicine system; remote control; remote patient assistance; routine exams; uplink connection; Application software; Base stations; Control systems; Costs; Digital video broadcasting; Hospitals; Prototypes; TV broadcasting; Telemedicine; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2008. PervasiveHealth 2008. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampere

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-15-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571076

Filename

4571076