Title : 
Ubiquitous House and Unconstrained Monitoring Devices for Home Healthcare System
         
        
            Author : 
Shin, J.H. ; Chung, G.S. ; Kim, K.K. ; Kim, J.S. ; Hwang, B.S. ; Park, K.S.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Seoul Nat. Univ., Seoul
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper suggests a healthcare monitoring system using unconstrained measurement devices with ubiquitous techniques. These measurement devices are developed into built-in type and sensor type. The first devices are built-in the households (bed, sofa and toilet seat) and measure the patient´s heart and respiration activity and estimate a blood pressure. The second devices are placed in a kitchen, front door and every room and detect the patient´s movements and activities. All digitized raw signals are transmitted to a main PC using Bluetooth wireless network from all ubiquitous devices and sent to hospital laboratory after an analyzing process. This paper suggest ubiquitous healthcare house (u-House) for a practical models of home healthcare system. And it can monitor the patient´s daily health condition and activity in an unconstrained manner.
         
        
            Keywords : 
biomedical telemetry; blood pressure measurement; cardiology; home computing; medical computing; patient monitoring; pneumodynamics; telemedicine; ubiquitous computing; Bluetooth; blood pressure measurement; home healthcare monitoring system; patient daily health condition; patient heart; ubiquitous healthcare house; unconstrained measurement device; unconstrained monitoring device; wireless LAN; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Bluetooth; Heart; Hospitals; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Pressure measurement; Signal processing; Wireless networks; Home health; Ubiquitous healthcare system; unconstrained measurement technique;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, 2007. ITAB 2007. 6th International Special Topic Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Tokyo
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-1867-1
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-1868-8
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ITAB.2007.4407381