Development of Intelligent Home Health-Care Box Connecting Medical Equipments and Its Service Platform

In this paper, an intelligent computer-aided nursing (ICAN) service system is proposed. In this system, an embedded system connecting biomedical instruments to collect home patient biomedical signals is developed and deployed. The developed embedded system, also called as IHHCB, has functions of collecting and analyzing biomedical signal and Web service. IHHCB cooperating with remote care centers plays an important role to realize a smart home with health-care applications. Through IHHCB, patient enjoys medical information services and on-line interaction with staffs in a care center. Care center has a continuous monitoring of medical measurements for each home patient. The experimental results depict that ICAN effectively enhances the nursing quality of home patient through information and networking technologies. Besides, the performances of deployment are also evaluated. Through the network model, some considerations of service platform deployment are also investigated. The results benefit the development of intelligent home nursing services in the future.