A Systematic Design Tool of Context Aware System for Ubiquitous Healthcare Service in a Smart Home

Abstract

Recent developments of information technologies are leading the advent of the era of ubiquitous healthcare service, which means healthcare services at any time and at any places. In a home, the ubiquitous healthcare service requires some context aware system for smart services using home network. In this paper, we propose a systematic design tool of a context aware system for ubiquitous healthcare service in a smart home, which is composed of a home gateway, a home server, a PDA, home network healthcare devices, and wearable sensors. We developed a context aware framework to send information from wearable sensors or healthcare devices to healthcare service entities as a middleware to solve the interoperability problem among sensor makers and healthcare service providers. And, we propose a design tool of ubiquitous healthcare services with the context aware framework in a systematic way. In order to show the feasibility of the proposed system, an application example is given, which is applied to a self check service.