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. 2011;11(7):6799-815.
doi: 10.3390/s110706799. Epub 2011 Jun 29.

A comprehensive ubiquitous healthcare solution on an Android™ mobile device

Pei-Cheng Hii  1 , Wan-Young Chung
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A comprehensive ubiquitous healthcare solution on an Android™ mobile device

Pei-Cheng Hii et al. Sensors (Basel). 2011.

Abstract

Provision of ubiquitous healthcare solutions which provide healthcare services at anytime anywhere has become more favorable nowadays due to the emphasis on healthcare awareness and also the growth of mobile wireless technologies. Following this approach, an Android™ smart phone device is proposed as a mobile monitoring terminal to observe and analyze ECG (electrocardiography) waveforms from wearable ECG devices in real time under the coverage of a wireless sensor network (WSN). The exploitation of WSN in healthcare is able to substitute the complicated wired technology, moving healthcare away from a fixed location setting. As an extension to the monitoring scheme, medicine care is taken into consideration by utilizing the mobile phone as a barcode decoder, to verify and assist out-patients in the medication administration process, providing a better and more comprehensive healthcare service.

Keywords: ECG monitoring; android smart phone; mobile barcode decoder; personal healthcare; wireless sensor network.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
System design of real time ECG monitoring and analyzing on an Android™ mobile device.
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Figure 2.
Sensor nodes: (a) Sensor node on ECG module; (b) Wireless dongle on smart phone.
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Figure 3.
Deployment of sensor nodes in WSN: (a) Wearable health shirt embedded with ECG devices; (b) Wireless dongle on smart phone device.
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Figure 4.
Packet format of sensor data.
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Figure 5.
GUI of ECG monitoring system.
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Figure 6.
Android™ mobile devices: (a) AchroHD (Huins Inc. Korea); (b) Galaxy S (Samsung Electronics Ltd., Korea).
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Figure 7.
Communication between the sensor node and the ECG device.
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Figure 8.
Data manipulation process.
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Figure 9.
Sample medicine packs in Korea: (a) Medicine packs; (b) Medicine pack with barcode.
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Figure 10.
Personalized QR barcode generator in ubiquitous healthcare system.
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Figure 11.
Data encoding process.
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Figure 12.
Setup of ECG real time monitoring environment.
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Figure 13.
Screen capture of the real time ECG monitoring system.
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Figure 14.
Personalized medicine care assistance: (a) Screen capture of mobile barcode decoder trying to decode the personalized QR barcode; (b) Display of decoded data on mobile phone.
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