KR20210006200A - Silver Healthcare System using AMI Networks - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, provided is a silver healthcare system using an AMI network, which uses a health care band which can be worn on a wrist in the form of a band to directly collect the health information of the elderly, and provides the health information measured by the healthcare band to the elderly themselves, their guardians, the 119 safety report center, emergency medical institutions, etc. through an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) communication network. Accordingly, it is possible to determine patient′s health status or life pattern very accurately, and to quickly identify and respond to emergency situations, and by applying nationwide AMI communication network for the purpose of collecting power information to the construction of a social safety net for the elderly in public interest along with the use of the AMI, the present invention increases the utilization of the AMI communication network.

Description

Silver Healthcare System using AMI Networks}

The present invention relates to a silver healthcare system using an AMI communication network, and more particularly, a healthcare band that can be worn on the wrist in the form of a band is used to directly collect health information of the elderly, and measured by the healthcare band. It relates to a silver healthcare system using an AMI communication network that enables health information to be provided to the elderly, guardians, 119 safety report centers, and emergency medical institutions through the AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) communication network.

In recent years, while the social environment is rapidly changing, medical expenses are increasing as interest in health increases. About 17.2% of GDP in the United States and about 7.7% of GDP in Korea are spent on medical expenses.

In particular, in the medical service field, the research and development of mobile healthcare that combines IT technology and medical field is attracting intensive attention thanks to the rapid development of IT technology.

Although these health care costs are increasing and new medical services are being developed, patients in need of emergency rescue and treatment often do not receive adequate medical services even though there are several emergency rescue systems.

In particular, in Korea, due to the rapid increase of the elderly population, the increase of double-income households, and the increase in physical distance between families due to nuclear familyization, rapid emergency treatment or medical institution notification may not be possible in case of an emergency situation for the elderly.

In other words, as the population of the underprivileged (elderly living alone, severely handicapped, chronically ill) living alone due to aging, nuclear familyization, and family dissolution, early detection and prompt emergency treatment are emerging as social problems in the event of a crisis situation of the underprivileged living alone.

In addition, the rate of sudden death due to excessive work and stress is increasing in the general population, and interest in mobile healthcare devices that can self-check personal health without going to the hospital amid such crisis awareness is increasing.

Therefore, it is necessary to develop a system that can promptly notify emergency medical institutions or 119 safety report centers of the emergency situation so that the general public as well as the underprivileged living alone can continuously check and manage their health and respond quickly in case of an emergency.

Republic of Korea Patent Application Publication No. 10-2012-0055273

The present invention has been devised to solve the above-described problem, and uses a health care band that can be worn on the wrist in the form of a band to directly collect health information of the elderly, and the health information measured by the health care band is AMI ( Advanced Metering Infrastructure (Intelligent Power Metering Infrastructure)) It is provided to the elderly, guardians, 119 safety report centers, and emergency medical institutions through a communication network, so that the health condition and life pattern of the wearer of the healthcare band are very accurately determined in normal times, and in case of an emergency, In addition to making it possible to deal with it, it is to provide a silver healthcare system using AMI communication network that can increase its utilization by applying the nationwide AMI communication network for power information exchange to the establishment of a social safety net for the elderly with a public interest.

The silver healthcare system using the AMI communication network of the present invention to achieve the above object is a wearable healthcare device worn on the wrist, and periodically transmits biometric signals including electrocardiogram, movement, body temperature, and photovoltaic pulse waves of the elderly to be worn. A healthcare band that measures and determines health information including blood pressure, body temperature, indoor movement path and posture, heart rate, and percutaneous oxygen saturation based on a measured value of the bio-signal and transmits it to the docking station; It is installed to connect the healthcare band and the AMI communication network, and periodically communicates with the healthcare band to collect various information including biosignal information, health information, emergency information, and health care band status information generated by the healthcare band. And a docking station for storing; It communicates with the docking station and periodically collects and stores various information transmitted from the healthcare band, and then transmits it to a remote healthcare server.It communicates with the docking station in a high-speed PLC method, and the AMI backbone network between healthcare servers A healthcare server that collects and stores various information transmitted from the healthcare band by communicating with the data concentration device and the data concentration device that communicates through, and generates health analysis information of the elderly who wear the healthcare band based on this Included and composed.

The healthcare band may periodically transmit the corresponding bio-signal information and health information to the docking station according to a transmission period received from the docking station.

When the healthcare band determines health information and determines it is an emergency, it generates an alarm on its own and immediately transmits the emergency information to the docking station regardless of the set transmission period.

The docking station may be equipped with a Wi-Fi or LoRa modem for communication with a healthcare band, and a high-speed PLC modem for communication with a data concentrator.

The data concentrator includes a database for storing various information of a healthcare band transmitted through a docking station; Healthcare that controls various information of the healthcare band transmitted through the docking station to be stored in the database, and controls the transmission of various information of the healthcare band stored in the database to the healthcare server according to periodic requests from the healthcare server. A control process may be provided.

According to the silver healthcare system using the AMI communication network of the present invention as described above, a healthcare band that can be worn on the wrist in the form of a band is used to directly collect health information of the elderly, and measured by the healthcare band. By providing health information to the elderly, guardians, 119 safety report centers, and emergency medical institutions through the AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) communication network, it is possible to very accurately determine the health status and life pattern of the wearer of the healthcare band. In the event of an emergency, it not only enables rapid response, but also has the effect of increasing its utilization by applying the nationwide AMI communication network for the purpose of collecting electric power information to the construction of a social safety net for the elderly that is of a public interest. have.

1 is a diagram showing a silver healthcare system using an AMI communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2 is a diagram showing a data concentrator constituting a silver healthcare system using an AMI communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in order to describe in detail so that those skilled in the art can easily implement the present invention.

It is a long time since Korea has entered the age of low birthrate and aging, and with this trend, it is expected that by 2025, the elderly aged 65 or older will enter a super-aged society, exceeding 10 million, 20% of the total population.

Due to the rapid aging of the population, medical expenses for the elderly are also expected to increase explosively. As a result of the inevitable increase in health insurance premiums, a social problem is emerging, causing conflict between generations.

In particular, dementia patients, which account for 10% of the elderly, degrade the quality of life of not only the patient but also the caregiver, and incur medical expenses of tens of millions of won or more, the national level of response has reached a level that is necessary.

As one of these countermeasures, attempts are being made to apply ICT technology to the construction of social safety net services for the elderly.

For example, after distributing terminal devices that can identify the location of the elderly and installing motion detection sensors (ultrasound, infrared, illuminance sensors, etc.) in a residential area, based on the measurement information of the sensor, the person's emergency situation is determined and the guardian /Local governments/fire departments/emergency medical institutions, etc.

However, in addition to the advantage of being able to provide location information of the elderly in the event of a missing accident, this method has a problem in that a measurement method with low accuracy is used to determine an emergency situation of the elderly.

That is, it is difficult to accurately determine an emergency situation because only the motion detection sensor can check the presence/absence of physical activity of the elderly.

Silver healthcare system using an AMI communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, a healthcare band (Healthcare Band; 110), a docking station (Docking Station; 130), a data concentration unit (Data Concentration Unit). ; 150), including a health care server (170) and a monitoring device (190), and constantly monitors the health status or lifestyle of the elderly who wears the health care band 110, and the environment of the elderly dwelling. By monitoring and promptly identifying and responding to emergency situations, it is possible to improve the quality of medical services for the elderly who are in the blind spot of care.

A health care band (110) is a wearable healthcare device worn on the wrist to measure health information of an elderly person, and includes an electrocardiogram (ECG), movement (Inertial Measurement Unit) of an elderly person to be worn; IMU), body temperature, and bio-signals including PPG (Photo Plethysmo Graph; PPG) are periodically measured, and based on the measured values of the bio-signals, blood pressure, body temperature, indoor movement path and posture, heart rate, and percutaneous oxygen saturation ( Health information including Saturation of Percutaneous Oxygen; SpO ₂ ) is identified.

The bio-signals measured by the healthcare band 110 and the determined health information are transmitted to the docking station 130 through Wi-Fi or LoRa wireless communication, and the communication protocol used is, for example, medical/healthcare. The device communication standard ISO/IEEE 11073 can be used or a non-standard proprietary protocol can be used.

The healthcare band 110 periodically transmits the corresponding bio-signal and health information according to the transmission period received from the docking station 130 when the transmission period is reached.

These transmission cycles can be manually set as needed.For example, if body temperature information is transmitted once per 30 seconds and heart rate is once per minute, body temperature information at 30 second intervals and heart rate information at 1 minute intervals can be transmitted. If the wearer of the healthcare band 110 is in a high-risk group, the period of transmission of the corresponding biometric signal or health information is shortened, and in the case of a low-risk group, vice versa, the quality of healthcare service and the battery of the healthcare band 110 are maintained. Time can be optimized.

That is, the healthcare band 110 automatically collects health information of the elderly, who is a wearer, at a predetermined period, and transmits it to the docking station 130, and the docking station 130 transmits the health information transmitted from the healthcare band 110. It stores and transmits the information to the data concentrator 150 upon request of the data concentrator 150.

Subsequently, the data concentration unit 150 stores the health information transmitted from the docking station 130 and transmits the information to the health care server 170 when there is a request from the healthcare server 170. Send.

Subsequently, the healthcare server 170 stores health information transmitted from the data concentrator 150 and corresponds to a request for information provision through the monitoring terminal 190 on which the healthcare application program is installed. The information is transmitted to the monitoring terminal 190 to be displayed through a healthcare application program.

On the other hand, if the cycle for collecting health information of the elderly who is the wearer in the healthcare band 110 is T1, and the cycle for requesting health information from the healthcare server 170 is T2, the collection cycle is a period of T2≥T1. Can have, and this period can be arbitrarily changed as necessary.

This is in consideration of the battery performance of the healthcare band 110, and the communication unit of the healthcare band 110 is normally maintained in the Sleep mode, and then switches to the Active mode only when health information transmission is required, and again when the transmission of health information is terminated. By switching to the Sleep mode, battery consumption can be reduced.

Since the docking station 130 receives and stores health information transmitted from the healthcare band 110, there is no separate collection period.

In addition, if an emergency situation is determined from the health information determination result and exceeds the emergency criteria set in advance, for example, SpO ₂ 95% or less, systolic blood pressure 140mmHg or more, diastolic blood pressure 60mmHg or less, etc. , The healthcare band 110 itself generates an alarm that can be recognized by others in the form of light or alarm sound, and transmits the information to a preset monitoring terminal 190 provided by a guardian, 119 safety report center, emergency medical institution, etc. ) Sends a Push alarm message to be delivered immediately.

That is, the health care band 110 analyzes health information and immediately generates a push-type message when an emergency situation of an elderly person to be worn occurs and transmits it to the docking station 130, and at this time, an alarm that can inform the surroundings of the emergency situation. It can cause sound, etc.

Subsequently, the push-type emergency message is displayed in the form of a Push alarm message on the monitoring terminal 190 through the docking station 130, the data concentration device 150, and the healthcare server 170.

Additionally, the healthcare band 110 performs time synchronization on all information generated by the healthcare band 110 by embedding a Real Time Clock (RTC) function for continuous health information monitoring of the elderly to be worn.

The docking station 130 is installed for linkage between the healthcare band 110 and the AMI communication network, and periodically communicates with the healthcare band 110 to provide biosignal information and health information generated by the healthcare band 110. It collects and stores various information including information, emergency information, and health care band status information.

The docking station (130) is equipped with a Wi-Fi or LoRa modem for wireless communication with the healthcare band 110, and a high-speed PLC (Power Line Communication, power line communication) modem applied to the establishment of an AMI communication network. It communicates with the data concentrator 150 in a PLC method.

In addition, the docking station 130 is additionally provided with a charging means capable of charging the healthcare band 110.

In addition, the docking station 130 may additionally be equipped with a sensor capable of monitoring the environment of the dwelling, that is, a temperature of the dwelling, and a gas (carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, fine dust, etc.) sensor, and generate and store the corresponding environmental monitoring information. do.

Hereinafter, information stored in the docking station 130, that is, biosignal information and health information of an elderly person to be worn, environmental monitoring information of an elderly person's residence, health care band 110 status information, and docking station 130 status information It is called information.

The Data Concentration Unit 150 is installed in a side pole (electric pole where distribution transformer is installed) near the residence of the elderly or is installed in a ground transformer (distribution transformer installed on the side of the road in the form of a steel box), and the docking station 130 ) And periodically collects health care information and transmits it to the remote health care server 170.

In more detail, the data concentrator 150 performs communication with the docking station 130 through the PLC modem 151 in a high-speed PLC method, and the HFC between the data concentrator 150 and the healthcare server 170 Through a modem or LTE modem 153, a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC), an AMI backbone network composed of LTE, etc. is used.

That is, information collected and stored from the docking station 130 is transmitted to the healthcare server 170 through the AMI communication network.

To this end, the data concentrator 150 mounts a healthcare process in addition to the AMI process 159 for performing the AMI function, as shown in FIG. 2.

The healthcare process includes a database 157 for storing healthcare information collected from the docking station 130 in communication with the docking station 130, and a database by periodically collecting healthcare information from the docking station 130 A function of storing in 157, a polling function for transmitting healthcare information collected according to a periodic request from the healthcare server 170, and emergency information to the healthcare server 170 at the request of the docking station 130 A healthcare control process 155 having a Push function of handling events to be transmitted is mounted.

The healthcare server 170 collects and stores health information of the elderly and interlocks with a healthcare application program. It communicates with the data concentration device 150 to collect and store healthcare information, and based on this The care band 110 generates health analysis information (normal/boundary/risk group classification by health information, gender/similar age group comparative analysis data, etc.) of the elderly who are to be worn.

In addition, by transmitting the emergency information transmitted from the healthcare band 110 to the monitoring terminal 190 installed with the healthcare application program in a Push method, the wearer of the healthcare band 110 in the guardian, 119 safety report center, emergency medical institution, etc. Emergency situations can be recognized immediately.

The monitoring terminal 190 is equipped with a health care application program and is possessed by the wearer or guardian of the health care band 110, or is provided in a 119 safety report center, emergency medical institution, etc., and the health care application program is By accessing the care server 170, healthcare information and health analysis information are provided to guardians, local governments, fire departments, emergency medical institutions, etc. in the form of a web or an app.

Here, in order for the user to receive health care information and health analysis information, it is premised that the wearer of the health care band 110 or the wearer's legal representative agrees to provide and use personal information in advance.

In addition, the healthcare application program provides monitoring and setting functions for each device constituting the healthcare system, that is, whether the healthcare band 110 is worn and the state of charge, the docking station 130, and the data concentration device 150. to provide.

According to the present invention as described above, a health care band that can be worn on the wrist in the form of a band is used to directly collect health information of the elderly, and the health information of the elderly measured by the health care band is AMI (Advanced Metering). Infrastructure, intelligent power metering infrastructure) By providing the elderly person, guardian, 119 safety report center, emergency medical institution, etc. through a communication network, it is possible to very accurately determine the health status or life pattern of the subject, and to quickly identify and respond to emergency situations. In addition, the nationwide AMI communication network for the purpose of collecting power information is applied to the establishment of a social safety net for the elderly having a public interest in addition to the use of AMI, thereby increasing the utilization of the AMI communication network.

In the above description, preferred embodiments of the present invention have been presented and described, but the present invention is not necessarily limited thereto, and those of ordinary skill in the technical field to which the present invention pertains within the scope not departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. It will be readily appreciated that many substitutions, modifications and changes can be made.

110: Healthcare Band
130: Docking Station
150: Data Concentration Unit
170: Healthcare Server
190: Monitoring Device

Claims (6)

As a wearable healthcare device worn on the wrist, it periodically measures bio-signals including electrocardiogram, movement, body temperature, and photovoltaic pulse waves of the elderly to be worn, and based on the measured values of the bio-signals, blood pressure, body temperature, indoor movement path and A healthcare band that determines health information including posture, heart rate, and percutaneous oxygen saturation and transmits it to the docking station;
It is installed to connect the healthcare band and the AMI communication network, and periodically communicates with the healthcare band to collect various information including biosignal information, health information, emergency situation information, and health care band status information generated by the healthcare band. A docking station to store;
It communicates with the docking station and periodically collects and stores various information transmitted from the healthcare band, and then transmits it to a remote healthcare server.It communicates with the docking station in a high-speed PLC method, and the AMI backbone network between healthcare servers A data concentrator for performing communication through; And
A healthcare server that collects and stores various types of information transmitted from the healthcare band in communication with the data concentrator, and generates health analysis information of an elderly person wearing a healthcare band based on this;
Silver healthcare system using an AMI communication network, characterized in that it is configured to include. The silver healthcare system according to claim 1, wherein the healthcare band periodically transmits corresponding bio-signals and health information to the docking station according to a transmission period received from the docking station. The method according to claim 1, wherein the health care band determines the health information and, if it is determined as an emergency situation, generates an alarm that can be recognized in the vicinity in the form of light or an alarm sound, and stores the information in a separate monitoring terminal set in advance. Silver healthcare system using the AMI communication network, characterized in that the transmission to. The silver healthcare system according to claim 1, wherein the docking station is equipped with a Wi-Fi or LoRa modem for communication with a healthcare band, and a high-speed PLC modem for communication with a data concentration device. . The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data concentrator comprises: a database storing various types of information from a healthcare band received through a docking station; Controls to store various information from the healthcare band received through the docking station in the database, and controls to transmit various information from the healthcare band stored in the database to the healthcare server according to periodic requests from the healthcare server. Silver healthcare system using an AMI communication network, characterized in that equipped with a healthcare control process. The method according to claim 2, wherein the transmission period of the healthcare band can be manually set as needed.When the wearer of the healthcare band is in a high risk group, the transmission period is shortened, and in the case of a low risk group, vice versa, the quality of healthcare service and the Silver healthcare system using AMI communication network, characterized in that it can optimize the battery maintenance time of the healthcare band.

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