2nd International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

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A Pervasive Telemedicine System Exploiting the DVB-T Technology

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2507,
    author={Gianmarco Angius and Danilo Pani and Luigi Raffo and Stefano Seruis and Paolo Randaccio},
    title={A Pervasive Telemedicine System Exploiting the DVB-T Technology},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2008},
    month={7},
    keywords={Application software Base stations Control systems Costs Digital video broadcasting Hospitals Prototypes TV broadcasting Telemedicine Telephony},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2507}
}
  • Gianmarco Angius
    Danilo Pani
    Luigi Raffo
    Stefano Seruis
    Paolo Randaccio
    Year: 2008
    A Pervasive Telemedicine System Exploiting the DVB-T Technology
    PERVASIVEHEALTH
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2507
Gianmarco Angius1,*, Danilo Pani1,*, Luigi Raffo1,*, Stefano Seruis1, Paolo Randaccio2,*
  • 1: Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Cagliari 09123 Cagliari, Italy
  • 2: Dept. of Physics University of Cagliari 09042 Monserrato (CA), Italy
*Contact email: g.angiu@diee.unica.it, pani@diee.unica.it, luigi@diee.unica.it, paolo.randaccio@ca.infn.it

Abstract

Telemedicine is a form of remote assistance to patients unable to easily reach the hospitals. The diffusion of such systems depends both on the availability of widespread low-cost platforms and on the ease of use. In this paper, a DVB-T based platform for telemedicine is presented. The proposed system enables to perform simple routine exams through a low-cost Base Station connected to the patient’s DVB-T set-top box, using the remote control and the TV screen as I/O interfaces for the user. The uplink connection is used to send the results to a remote care center. The practice with such home-entertainment equipments allows even elderly people to easily exploit the proposed platform.

Keywords
Application software Base stations Control systems Costs Digital video broadcasting Hospitals Prototypes TV broadcasting Telemedicine Telephony
Published
2008-07-22
Publisher
IEEE
Modified
2010-05-16
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2507
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