Medical IoT improves patient outcomes through real-time patient monitoring, advanced diagnostics, and so on. We are designing medical IoT systems consisting of highly managed medical devices. The flexible and user-friendly alarm delivery service can be used by caregivers and/or family members of home ventilator-dependent children.

We focus on patients with chronic respiratory diseases who wear artificial ventilators while sleeping at night or when they are having difficulty breathing. Medical devices used by these people typically do not have interfaces that export alarm events or data and it is difficult to integrate user operations, such as non-regular suction. We developed various wireless adapters for medical devices including highly managed medical devices, the wireless data collector which transfer the data to a smart phone, called Edge, securely. We can plug-in various types of medical devices manufactured by different companies following interfaces defined in the system.

We can use either Bluetooth or IEEE802.15.4g 920MHz wireless system for the system depending on user environment.

BAN portable health clinic (BAN-PHC) consists of an attaché case equipped with measurement devices/sensors, its coordinator, a local backend server, and a remote database. The devices/sensors are used to measure height, weight, waist and hip size, body temperature, pulse rate, oxygenation of blood, blood pressure, blood glucose, urinary protein, urinary glucose and urinary urobilinogen. Blood tests and urinalysis are managed by paramedics in a healthcare center team to maintain the operation and measurement quality.

The BAN-PHC set is used for health check-up and telemedicine on sites, such as factories in urban areas and villages in rural areas referencing group medical examination. The set is intended for continuous use in areas where power supply is unstable, easy-to-use interfaces to users, such as paramedics, easy network maintenance and ease of carrying.

A proof-of-concept data gathering system in an ambulance using short-range wireless system is designed and implemented. This system focuses on Pre-Hospital Care in Thailand.

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