Hopping wireless medical care and monitoring device and method of operation

• US 8,811,890 B2
• Filed: 05/09/2011
• Issued: 08/19/2014
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Safaipour, Bobbak
• Application Number:
  US13/103,151
• Publication Number:
  US 20120289149A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,198 Days
• Field of Search: 455/15
• 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

A hopping wireless medical caring and monitoring system, which is an ANT multiple nodes hopping network, includes 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 wireless remote health and medical caring and monitoring system is suitable for home-care or a hospital.

Claims

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

at least one physical status measuring apparatus;

at least one hopping node forming at least one channel transmitting a wireless signal following a network topology to form a multiple hopping node network system, wherein the network topology for each hopping node is a master line network topology or a slave line network topology, and wherein the channel comprises;

a receiving channel,

a transmitting channel,

a user channel, and

a reserved channel when a failure hopping node occurs;

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 a wireless signal, or transmitting a measuring data or an alarm in a wireless signal form through the multiple hopping nodes network; and

at least one end-user apparatus connected to the at least one physical status measuring apparatus for reading physical status data and transmitting the physical status data in wireless form from the at least one hopping node to the server, with the user channel transmitting the wireless signal to the at least one end-user apparatus, with each end-user apparatus also receiving a wireless signal from another hopping node to output an alarm according to instructions 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 and 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, and wherein;

the central processing unit reads the physical measuring data from the physical input signal unit and outputting the 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 shows the wireless signal from the central processing unit.

3. The device 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 the wireless signal under the ANT network system unit.

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

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the failure hopping node of the reserved channel prevents the failure hopping node from building a new reserved channel by a broadcast signal.

6. 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 hopping nodes, and

a user-end apparatus;

forming a communication channel following a network topology for building the communicating channel automatically and automatically forming a reserved channel when a failure hopping node occurs, wherein the network topology is a master line network topology on a slave line network topology; and

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

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the physical measuring data is read from the user-end apparatus and transmitted in the wireless signal at the wireless signal transmitting.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the server transmits the physical measuring data or the alarm to the user-end apparatus.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the server transmits the physical measuring data or the alarm to the user-end apparatus.

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