• DocumentCode
    2257283
  • Title

    Design of Health-Care Home Gateway (HCHG) over Digital Cable Television Network

  • Author

    Lee, Ren-Guey ; Lai, Chien-Chih ; Chiang, Shao-Shan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taipei Univ. of Technol.
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    10-14 Jan. 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a heath-care home gateway (HCHG), with the abilities of wireless transmission by using a ZigBee module and multimedia home platform (MHP), over digital cable television (CATV) network. By means of HCHG, it is mainly to transmit the vital signs of the CATV subscribers via digital CATV network to the medical/health-care center, and could further to consult their health condition with the professional medical and nursing personnel timely.
  • Keywords
    biomedical communication; cable television; health care; internetworking; multimedia communication; radio networks; CATV; HCHG; ZigBee module; digital cable television network; health-care center; health-care home gateway; multimedia home platform; wireless transmission; Biomedical monitoring; Cable TV; Cardiovascular diseases; Hardware; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Multimedia systems; Paper technology; Personnel; ZigBee;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Consumer Electronics, 2007. ICCE 2007. Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, NV
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0763-X
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-0763-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCE.2007.341319
  • Filename
    4146156