KR20110119999A - Wired and wireless Ｕ-Healthcare devices using a portable momentum sensor - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a U-health care device composed of the U-health care module 10, the communication connection module 21 and the management control module (30). The present invention relates to a U-health care device that measures the heart rate and the user's acceleration, tracks the amount of movement and movement of the user, calculates calories consumed based on the user, and adjusts the type and injection amount of the fragrance material. Data on the amount of exercise and movement patterns accumulated by the healthcare device can be sent to servers on the Internet to receive appropriate exercise prescriptions from the expert group or program, enabling treatment through exercise therapies appropriate to individual characteristics. Do.

Description

WIRE / WIRELESS U-HEALTHCARE DEVICE USING A PORTABLE EXCERCISE QUANTITY MEASURING SENSOR}

The present invention relates to a wired and wireless U-healthcare device for prescription and management for proper exercise therapy, using a miniaturized and lightweight portable momentum sensor.

With the rapid change in the social environment, health care costs are on the rise as health concerns grow, with 14% of GDP in the United States and 7% of GDP in Korea. It is being spent on expense.

Although expenditures on medical expenses are increasing and new medical services are being developed, patients who need emergency rescue and treatment often do not receive adequate medical services even though there are many emergency rescue systems.

Currently, due to the rapid increase of the elderly population due to the rapid aging society, the increase of dual-generation households, the increase of physical distance between families due to the nuclear family, the increase of facilities where the elderly are concentrated, such as postpartum care centers and silver towns, and the medical gap due to the declining population of farming and fishing villages This may not be the case when an emergency condition is reported to an emergency medical institution, or direct first aid is required.

In the medical service field, the rapid development of IT technology has led to the development of research and development in the Ubiquitous Healthcare (U-Healthcare) field based on the ubiquitous environment where IT technology and medical field are combined.

Even when going out, small and light weighted blood pressure monitors, diabetes meters, and the like have been developed and widely used to monitor health conditions such as pulse, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and body temperature of a user's body at any time and place. However, in the U-health care field, technology for preparing a medical treatment or an emergency is mainly developed by measuring the condition of patients with current diseases. However, there are not many cases where U-healthcare technology has been used in exercise therapy.

Recently, as westernization of dietary life has progressed rapidly, interest in obesity has increased. Obesity, which was once a symbol of abundance, has recently been recognized as a cause of disease, and the causes of obesity can be divided into genetic and environmental causes. It's working.

Recently, as part of the treatment of obesity, the word 'diet' is popular. A diet usually means a diet that corrects lifestyles and habits that are prone to obesity. However, obesity treatment can be achieved by combining diet and exercise therapy.

For proper exercise therapy necessary for diet, check the state of the patient before exercise to prescribe the appropriate exercise therapy, and even during exercise it is necessary to instruct the change or stop the exercise regimen according to the change of the patient's condition. To do this, the therapist or trainer had to visually assess the patient's condition and give instructions during exercise therapy. However, this not only required a lot of manpower, but also made difficult diagnosis. Accordingly, the present inventors have introduced the U-healthcare technology to exercise therapy prescription, and automatically invented a U-health chair device equipped with an exercise amount measuring sensor capable of automatically diagnosing a patient during exercise therapy and providing accurate exercise prescription.

An object of the present invention is to introduce the U-healthcare technology to the exercise therapy regimen, to automatically diagnose the living state of the patient during exercise therapy, through which the precise exercise prescription for the U-healthcare device equipped with the momentum measurement sensor It is to provide an invention.

The present invention relates to a U-health care device that measures heart rate and acceleration of a user, tracks a user's exercise amount and a pattern of movement, calculates calories consumed based on this, and adjusts a kind of aroma substance and an injection amount. In addition, the invention relates to a U-health care device that can transmit data on the amount of exercise and movement patterns accumulated by the U-health care device to a server on the Internet to give a proper exercise prescription to a subscriber by a professional group or a program.

U-health care device of the present invention is composed of a U-health care module 10, the communication connection module 21 and the management control module (30).

U-healthcare module is manufactured in the smallest size and attached to the user's body like pedometer or chest belt, and helps to improve the user's health by controlling the injection of fragrance material according to the user's exercise amount. The module can exist as a standalone entity or can be built in conjunction with various user mobile devices (pcs, mp3 players, cellular phones, watches, palmtam computers).

More accurate and realistic consumption by calculating the function as a function of time and steps using time information, not calculating calories using only the user's exercise intensity and steps input from the 3-axis acceleration sensor and heart rate sensor of the module of the present invention. You can count calories. In addition, it is possible to maximize the effect of health promotion by controlling the injection amount of the fragrance material using this.

The U-healthcare module includes a function setting unit 11 for setting various functions as shown in FIG. 1; A data communication unit 1 (12) for transmitting and receiving data with the communication connection module 21; A timer 13 for time calculation; A program ROM 14 for storing a program for performing various functions; A display unit 15 displaying various data according to control of a controller to be described later; An exercise amount sensor 16 capable of measuring heart rate and acceleration of the user; A data storage unit 17 storing information collected by the data communication unit and information about a user's movement collected by the exercise sensor, together with a time presented by the timer; Rechargeable fragrance storage unit 18 that can store a certain amount of fragrance material; Fragrance diverging unit 19 for emitting fragrance under control of a controller to be described later; It is composed of a U-health care module control unit 20 for controlling the performance of various functions set through the function setting unit according to the program stored in the program ROM.

The power required here is made by a rechargeable battery that is recharged by the communication connection module 21 to be described later. It is also possible with a battery such as a conventional mercury cell.

The data communication unit 1 12 is connected to the data communication unit 2 22 of the communication connection module 21 to communicate with the outside through the communication connection module 21. The data communication unit 1 12 and the data communication unit 2 22 may be connected by wire, but are preferably connected using wireless communication such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. However, since the data communication unit 1 (12) of the U-health care module 10 is directly connected to a PC or a mobile phone by a jack or wireless communication, communication with the outside is also possible by an application program of the PC or the mobile phone.

The momentum sensor 16 includes a heart rate sensor and an acceleration sensor, so that the momentum of the user can be measured.

The communication connection module 21 is responsible for the connection between the U-health care module 10 and the control module 30. The data communication unit 2 22 of the communication connection module 21 is connected to the U-healthcare module 10 via wire or wirelessly and is connected to the external communication unit 24 by a user's command input to the communication function setting unit 23. Communicate with the outside by In addition, the module may further include a charging unit 25 having a function of recharging the battery of the U-health care device by an external power source.

The external communication unit 24 may be a PC, a wired phone or a mobile phone connected to the Internet, and is connected by wire or wireless to connect the management control module and the U-healthcare module.

The management control module 30 receives the movement amount and the movement pattern of the user collected by the U-healthcare module through the external communication unit 24 and transmits information such as movement or exercise amount to the DB (Data Base) storage unit 32. By using the accumulated subscriber DB, motion DB, and questionnaire DB of each individual, not only the consumption calories for a short period (day) but also the long term consumption calories and exercise patterns are calculated for the user.

In addition, the management control module 30 has a dietary questionnaire system for collecting the dietary information of the subscriber, calculate the calories absorbed by the body in daily life based on the input data through this compared with the consumption calorie exercise prescription of appropriate intensity Can be performed.

The communication connection module 21 should be connected to the management control module 30 to input the information transmitted by the user's U-healthcare module 10 to the DB of the management control module 30. The subscriber may input a questionnaire about eating habits through the subscriber operating terminal 36 and receive a prescription for exercise prescription or eating habits transmitted from the expert operating terminal 37 or obtained from an automated prescription program. The subscriber operating terminal 36 and the expert operating terminal 37 may be a PC or a mobile phone connected to the Internet.

The management control module 30 automatically calculates the absorbed calories and the consumed calories in the short or long term based on the input motion information and the dietary information, and performs exercise prescription for them. The practitioner of exercise prescriptions can be an automated prescription program or expert by simple logic.

The present invention relates to a U-health care device that measures the heart rate and the acceleration of the user to track the amount of movement and movement of the user and calculates the calories burned based on this, thereby adjusting the type and amount of injection of the fragrance material. Data on the amount of exercise and movement patterns accumulated by the care device can be sent to a server on the Internet to receive the appropriate exercise prescription from the expert group or program, so that treatment through exercise therapy appropriate to the characteristics of the individual is possible. .

1 is a diagram illustrating a U-healthcare module 10,
2 is a view illustrating the communication connection module 21,
3 is a diagram describing the management control module 30.

The preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described. However, these examples do not limit the scope of the present invention.

The user first inputs a questionnaire and body information on the diet through the subscriber operating terminal 33, such as a PC, and is provided with an initial exercise prescription. After exercising according to the initial exercise prescription after wearing the U-health care module 10, the U-health care module 10 measures the amount of exercise and transmits the corresponding information to the management control module 30 through the communication connection module. do. The management control module 30 transmits the divergence command of the fragrance substance to the U-healthcare module 10 according to the measured exercise amount, and the U-healthcare module controller 20 which receives the divergence command of the fragrance substance is the fragrance diverging unit. Discharges the fragrance material stored in the fragrance storage unit 18 through (19). The management control module 30 stores the information transmitted from the U-healthcare module 10 in the DB storage unit 32 and transmits the information to the user through the subscriber DB, the questionnaire DB, and the motion DB stored in the DB storage unit 32. Exercise regime can be changed.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the fragrance storage unit 18 and the fragrance diverging unit 19 controlled by the U-health care module control unit 20 according to the amount of exercise measured by the momentum sensor 16 or more Characterized in that the fragrance can be selectively released.

10: U-healthcare module 21: communication connection module
11: Functional climax 22: Data communication unit 2
12: data communication unit 1 23: communication function setting unit
13: timer 24: external communication unit
14: program ROM 25: charging unit
15: display unit 26: communication connection module control unit
16: momentum sensor 30: management control module
17: data storage unit 31: control unit
18: flavor storage unit 32: DB storage unit
19: behavior diverging unit 33: subscriber operating terminal
20: U-health care module control unit 34: expert operating terminal

Claims (2)

In the U-health care device consisting of the U-health care module 10, the communication connection module 21 and the management control module 30,
The U-healthcare module 10 includes a function setting unit 11, a data communication unit 1 (12) for transmitting and receiving data with the communication connection module 21, a timer 13 for time calculation, and a calculation program. Collected by the program ROM 14, the display unit 15 for displaying data, the momentum sensor 16 capable of measuring the heart rate and acceleration of the user, the information collected by the data communication unit 12 and the momentum sensor 16 Data storage unit 17 is stored with the time presented by the timer 13, the information about the user's movement to be stored, the rechargeable fragrance storage unit 18 to store the fragrance material, the fragrance diverging unit 19 for emitting fragrance And U-health care module control unit 20 for controlling the function according to the program stored in the program ROM,
The communication connection module 21 is composed of a data communication unit 2 22, a communication function setting unit 23, an external communication unit 24, a charging unit 25, and a communication connection module control unit 26;
The management control module 30 is a U-health care device, characterized in that the control unit 31, DB storage unit 32, subscriber operating terminal 33 and expert operator 34. The U-health care module control unit according to claim 1, wherein the fragrance storage unit 18 and the fragrance diverging unit 19 can selectively release two or more fragrance substances according to the acceleration of the user measured by the momentum sensor 16. U-health care device, characterized in that controlled by (20).

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