One of the first medical devices we encounter when we visit a hospital care unit is the patient monitoring (PM) system. This system informs doctors and nurses about the patient’s vital signs. However, typical PMs do not have a remote monitoring capability, which necessitates constant onsite attendance by support personnel. Further, PMs are generally too large to carry. Thus, we have developed a Wireless Patient Monitoring System (WIPAMS), which is a portable PM that monitors the biomedical signs of patients in real time and sends them to remote stations for display, with alerts when necessary. WIPAMS differs from conventional PMs in two aspects: first, its wireless communication capability allows vital signs to be monitored remotely so it obviates the requirement for onsite support personnel; and second, it is portable so patients can move around while their biomedical signs are being monitored. WIPAMS is also notable because of its implementation: it uses Android as the underlying OS, while a pulse oximeter, thermometer, and electrocardiogram reader are integrated into the system. Monitoring and communication applications are implemented on the OS using threads, which facilitates the stable and timely manipulation of signals and the appropriate sharing of resources. Based on the graphic display of the biomedical data collected, we verified that the multitasking implementation used in the system was suitable for PMs and for other u-Healthcare applications.
목차
Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Background Information Related to the Development of WIPAMS 2.1. Biomedical sensors 2.2. Embedded systems based on operating systems 3. Implementation of WIPAMS in the Android OS 3.1. Sensing module 3.2. Control logic 3.3. Display module 4. Developing a prototype WIPAMS 5. Conclusions Acknowledgements References
보안공학연구지원센터(IJMUE) [Science & Engineering Research Support Center, Republic of Korea(IJMUE)]
설립연도
2006
분야
공학>컴퓨터학
소개
1. 보안공학에 대한 각종 조사 및 연구
2. 보안공학에 대한 응용기술 연구 및 발표
3. 보안공학에 관한 각종 학술 발표회 및 전시회 개최
4. 보안공학 기술의 상호 협조 및 정보교환
5. 보안공학에 관한 표준화 사업 및 규격의 제정
6. 보안공학에 관한 산학연 협동의 증진
7. 국제적 학술 교류 및 기술 협력
8. 보안공학에 관한 논문지 발간
9. 기타 본 회 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering
간기
월간
pISSN
1975-0080
수록기간
2008~2016
등재여부
SCOPUS
십진분류
KDC 505DDC 605
이 권호 내 다른 논문 / International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering Vol.8 No.6