Journal of Applied Science and Engineering

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Huan-Chao Keh1, Chun-Che Shih2, Kuang-Yi Chou3, Yuan-Cheng Cheng This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.1, Hsin-Kai Ho1, Po-Yuan Yu1 and Nan-Ching Huang1

1Department of CSIE, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan 251, R.O.C.
2Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan 112, R.O.C.
3Center of General Education, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan 112, R.O.C.


 

Received: January 3, 2014
Accepted: August 25, 2014
Publication Date: September 1, 2014

Download Citation: ||https://doi.org/10.6180/jase.2014.17.3.12  


ABSTRACT


This study establishes Unified Communications (UC) platform integrated with Internet of m-health Things (m-IoT) architecture, which can be applied to healthcare. Using micro wireless physiological sensors combined with smart mobile devices, that is able to implement patients immediate monitoring, first aid, tracking, analysis, diagnosis, alarm-triggering, locating and collaboration with medical healthcare. Converging data, voice, video, multimedia messaging elements into WBAN, WSN, WLAN, Internet, PSTN and Social Networks, which integrates vital signs, including heart rate, respiratory rate, ECG, body temperature, posture, activity rate, GPS location, street scene and live background recording feedback into different heterogeneous platforms to make a seamless compatibility ubiquitous architecture, and thus it conducts correlation analysis, computing, statistics and comparison. In this communication architecture, it ensures that caregivers could monitor patients at anytime and anywhere through any communication tools, media, devices and platforms. Caregivers could instantly provide proper medical diagnosis or emergency medical care without limited to distance, space and time. This study improved the communication architecture of traditional mobile healthcare, monitoring methods and warning mechanisms, which also offers effective, real-time, multi-channel, group broadcasting and two way communication architecture to reduce cooperative medical care cost and enhance the effectiveness of communications services. Looking to introduce Unified Communications technologies for mobile healthcare in order to increase mobile medical service quality, and then open a wider range of applications and research breakthroughs.


Keywords: Unified Communications, Internet of Things, Wireless Physiological Sensors, Mobile Healthcare


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