Using Multi-channel Transmission Technology to Construct an IoT Mechanism for Homecare Service

Abstract

Owing to the issue of silver tsunami, the number of widow and widower arises day by day. Patient’s families couldn’t accompany elders due to the job. Thus, the elders’ self-care ability becomes an ordeal in daily lives. Even if the advanced medical tech allows elders to have a perfect medical service or to enhance his/her self-care ability, the medical institution is still facing the heavy-burden predicament because of the short of medical manpower and the restriction of medical resource while most caring services are concentrated in hospital or institution, and fail to decentralize them to various home environments. Whereas the target of “Aging in place” sets in the Long-term Care 2.0, we extend the professional care to individual resident through Long-term Care A, B, and C, and to relieve the pressure of Chinese-type treatment and the hardship of long journey. Nevertheless, the popularizing performance is confined due to lack of self-care environment and professional integrating care platform for elders.

We intend to use the module of medical internet to conduct clinical field simulation and deployment, through multiple transit technique and fog-computing environment to produce an appropriate aging-care module. It is livable for patients’ health, and can save the unnecessarily medical resource and the manpower cost expenditure. Such a module can be extended to broaden the range of medical service, introduction of smart high-tech, create a livable environment for elders’ healthcare and life.