Hopping Wireless Medical Care and Monitoring Device and Method of Operation

• US 20120289149A1
• Filed: 05/09/2011
• Published: 11/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
• Inventors: Hsueh, Ya-Hsin, Wu, Chih-Yung, Jhou, Fong-I
• Granted Patent: US 8,811,890 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/15
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0015 characterised by features of the telemetry system
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

The present invention is related to a hopping wireless medical caring and monitoring system, which is an ANT multiple nodes hopping network and comprises at least one hopping node, at least one physical status measuring apparatus, a server and at least one user-end apparatus. The server communicates with the at least one user-end apparatus via the ANT network. The user-end apparatus reads a medical measurement result from the physical status measuring apparatus and transmits the results to the server via the ANT network. The present invention provides a wireless remote health and medical caring and monitoring system that is suitable for home-care or hospital.

Claims

1. A wireless hopping node medical care monitoring device is an ANT multiple hopping nodes network comprising

at least one end-user apparatus;

at least one physical status measuring apparatus;

at least one hopping node forming at least one channel for transmitting a wireless signal in being follow a network topology to form a multiple hopping node network system; and

a server.

at least one hopping node forming at least one channel for transmitting a wireless signal in being follow a network topology to form a multiple hopping node network system;

at least one physical status measuring apparatus for detecting a patient'"'"'s physical status;

a server connected to the at least one hopping node and the network topology for receiving signal, or transmitting a measuring data or an alarm in the wireless signal form through the multiple hoping node network system; and

at least one end-user apparatus connected to the physical status measuring apparatus for reading a physical status data and transmitting the physical status data in wireless form from the at least one hopping node to the server, and each end-user apparatus also received a wireless signal from another hopping node to output an alarm according to the instruction of the wireless signal.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein each end-user apparatus comprises

a central processing unit,

an ANT wireless network unit electrically connected to the central processing unit for transmitting signals between the at least one hopping node in a bi-direction pathway,

a physical input signal unit electrically connected to the central processing unit,

an alarm output signal unit electrically connected to the central processing unit,

a monitoring unit electrically connected to the central processing unit,

an input interface, and

a real-time timer unit electrically connected to the central processing unit, wherein

the central processing unit reads the physical measuring data from the physical input signal unit for outputting a wireless signal through the ANT wireless network unit and then transmitting the wireless signal to the server;

the alarm output signal unit receives the wireless signal from the central processing unit; and

the monitoring unit showing the wireless signal from the central processing unit.

3. The system according to claim 2 wherein each hopping node further comprises

a hopping microprocessing unit, and

a hopping wireless transmitting unit electrically connected to the hopping microprocessing unit, wherein the hopping wireless transmitting unit transmits a wireless signal under an ANT network system.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein each hopping node follows a channel argument and the network topology for transmitting a wireless signal, and the channel argument comprises a hopping number, an RF frequency, a channel number, a channel ID, a channel period and a channel type.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein network topology for each hopping node is a master line network topology or a slave line network topology, and the channel comprises

an Rx channel,

a Tx channel,

a user channel for transmitting a wireless signal to the end-user apparatus, and

a reserved channel adapted for a failure hopping node occurred.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the hopping nodes for building the reserved channel prevents another hopping node from building a new reserved channel by a broadcast signal.

7. A method for transmitting a wireless medical caring system, comprising

setting a multiple hopping node system under an ANT network system comprising

a server,

multiple hoping nodes, and

a user-end apparatus,

forming a communicating channel following a network topology for building the channel automatically,

transmitting a wireless signal between the user-end apparatus and the server by the channel, and the wireless signal including a physical measuring data or an alarm.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the step for forming the communication channel further comprises automatically forming a reserved channel when a failure hopping node is occurred.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the physical measuring data is read from the user-end apparatus and transmitting in the wireless signal at the step for wireless signal transmitting.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the server transmits the physical measuring data or an alarm to the user-end apparatus.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein the physical measuring data is read from the user-end apparatus and transmitting in the wireless signal at the step for wireless signal transmitting.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the server transmits the physical measuring data or an alarm to the user-end apparatus.