A wearable context aware system for ubiquitous healthcare.
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2007-10-23
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Recent developments of information technologies are leading the advent of the era of ubiquitous healthcare which means healthcare services at any time and at any places The ubiquitous healthcare service needs a wearable system for more continual measurement of biological signals of a user which gives information of the user from wearable sensors In this paper we propose a wearable context aware system for ubiquitous healthcare and its systematic design process of a ubiquitous healthcare service Some wearable sensor systems are introduced with Zigbee communication We develop a context aware framework to send information from wearable sensors to healthcare service entities as a middleware to solve the interoperability problem between sensor makers and healthcare service providers And we propose a systematic process of design of ubiquitous healthcare services with the context aware framework In order to show the feasibility of the proposed system some application examples are given which are applied to remote monitoring and a self check service