Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research (대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지)

The Korean Society of Medical and Biological Engineering (대한의용생체공학회)
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Current Developments of Biomedical Mobile Devices for Ubiquitous Healthcare

u-Healthcare를 위한 바이오 단말기의 개발 현황

  • Lee, Tae-Soo (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Hong, Joo-Hyun (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University)
  • 이태수 (충북대학교 의과대학 의공학교실) ;
  • 홍주현 (충북대학교 의과대학 의공학교실)
  • Published : 2009.06.30
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Abstract

Biomedical mobile devices for ubiquitous healthcare consist of biomedical sensors and communication terminal. They have two types of configuration. One is the sensor-network type device using wired or wireless communication with intelligent sensors to acquire biomedical data. The other is the sensor embedded type device, where the data can be acquired directly by itself. There are many examples of sensor network type, such as, fall detection sensor, blood glucose sensor, and ECG sensors networked with commercial PDA phone and commercial phone terminal for ubiquitous healthcare. On the other hand, sensor embedded type mounts blood glucose sensor, accelerometer, and etc. on commercial phone. However, to enable true ubiquitous healthcare, motion sensing is essential, because users go around anywhere and their signals should be measured and monitored, when they are affected by the motion. Therefore, in this paper, two biomedical mobile devices with motion monitoring function were addressed. One is sensor-network type with motion monitoring function, which uses Zigbee communication to measure the ECG, PPG and acceleration. The other is sensor-embedded type with motion monitoring function, which also can measure the data and uses the built-in cellular phone network modem for remote connection. These devices are expected to be useful for ubiquitous healthcare in coming aged society in Korea.

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