Custos: Remote on-demand healthcare aided with wireless sensors and mobile phones

John K. Zao; Shih Chen Fan; Bing-Shiang Yang; Shang Hwa Hsu; Han Chin Cheng; Ming Lun Liu; Howard C. Huang; Fan Yi Teng

doi:10.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811630

Custos: Remote on-demand healthcare aided with wireless sensors and mobile phones

John K. Zao, Shih Chen Fan, Bing-Shiang Yang, Shang Hwa Hsu, Han Chin Cheng, Ming Lun Liu, Howard C. Huang, Fan Yi Teng

Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Abstract

Telemonitoring and remote healthcare are two ICT techniques promise to deliver cost effective long-term healthcare services to the aging population worldwide. Anticipating an emerging market opportunity, NCTU Kannon project team is creating Custos, an open composeable platform for developing remote on-demand healthcare applications using smart phones and wireless sensor networks. Custos¹ is integrated readily with Internet web services and UPnP digital-home platform so that it can be used to detect abnormal health conditions through multi-sensor data fusion, adapt environment conditions to user needs, dispatch medical alerts and instigateremedial actions via SMS/RSS communication. Moreover, Custos is easy to program because it uses Sun SPOT and Squawk Java J2ME as its sensor/actuator hub. In this position paper, we presentthe design principles, system architecture and operation concepts of Custos as well as a pilotplan for clinical trials in the Geriatric Psychiatry Ward of Wei-Gong Memorial Hospital in Miaoli, Taiwan.

Original language	English
Article number	4811630
Pages (from-to)	2264-2269
Number of pages	6
Journal	Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811630
State	Published - 1 Dec 2008
Event	2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2008 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 12 Oct 2008 → 15 Oct 2008

Keywords

Smart environments
Telemedicine
Telemonitoring
Wireless sensor networks

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