Smart Homecare System for Health Tele-monitoring

Abstract

An increasing aged population worldwide puts our medical capabilities to the test. Research and commercial groups are investigating novel ways to care for the aged and chronically ill both in their own homes and in care facilities. This paper describes a prototype we have developed for remote healthcare monitoring. This personalized smart homecare system uses smart phones, wireless sensors, web servers and IP webcams. To illustrate the functionality of the prototype we describe a series of typical tele-health monitoring scenarios.

A decision-making mechanism for context inference in pervasive healthcare environments

“…Current systems for home care treatment demand that the patient informs the system of a state of emergency by activating an alarm, for example, via a panic button. Conversely, the system can react when predefined limits of vital signs are exceeded, as, for example, in [18]. These variations can be influenced by behavioral or environmental conditions.…”

Medicine tracker for Smart TV

“…System reminds them of these intakes, first with subtle notification, and then with more insistent ways. Then the system allows to track the intake, such ideas were mentioned in [11], [12]. The following use case is the core interaction scenario for the system.…”

A H-QoS-demand personalized home physiological monitoring system over a wireless multi-hop relay network for mobile home healthcare applications

“…Many physiological monitoring systems for home tele-healthcare and pervasive healthcare applications had been widely investigated. This includes ECG monitoring and transmission using cable television (CATV) network (Lee et al, 2000) or over the Internet (Herná ndez et al, 2001), personal health monitoring by wearable or portable devices (Anliker et al, 2004;Kang et al, 2006;Lee et al, 2006Lee et al, , 2007Leijdekkers et al, 2007;Lin et al, 2004;Lorincz et al, 2004;Milenković et al, 2006) or by clothing-embedded transducers (Axisa et al, 2005;Coosemans et al, 2006), and wireless physiological monitoring systems based on existing mobile communication technologies such as wireless application protocol (WAP) (Hung and Zhang, 2003;Maglaveras et al, 2002), wireless local area network (WLAN) (Cypher et al, 2006;Leijdekkers et al, 2007;Lin et al, 2004;Milenković et al, 2006;Varshney, 2006Varshney, , 2007, and global system for mobile communications (GSM)/ general packet radio service (GPRS) (Lee et al, 2006(Lee et al, , 2007, or over emerging ad hoc wireless networks or sensor networks (Lorincz et al, 2004;Milenković et al, 2006;Stankovic et al, 2005;Varshney, 2007;Varshney and Sneha, 2006). From these literature data, there is a general tendency for healthcare monitoring systems to integrate wireless mobile communication network technology to provide more freedom, portability, and convenience to elders and patients, especially in applications for indoor environment such as homes and hospitals.…”