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Design and Implementation of a Set-Top Box-Based Homecare System Using Hybrid Cloud
Bor-Shing Lin1, Pei-Chi Hsiao2, Po-Hsun Cheng3
11 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taipei University , New Taipei City, Taiwan .
Introduction:
Telemedicine has become a prevalent topic in recent years, and several telemedicine systems have been proposed; however, such systems are an unsuitable fit for the daily requirements of users.
Materials And Methods:
The system proposed in this study was developed as a set-top box integrated with the Android™ (Google, Mountain View, CA) operating system to provide a convenient and user-friendly interface. The proposed system can assist with family healthcare management, telemedicine service delivery, and information exchange among hospitals. To manage the system, a novel type of hybrid cloud architecture was also developed.
Results:
Updated information is stored on a public cloud, enabling medical staff members to rapidly access information when diagnosing patients. In the long term, the stored data can be reduced to improve the efficiency of the database.
Conclusions:
The proposed design offers a robust architecture for storing data in a homecare system and can thus resolve network overload and congestion resulting from accumulating data, which are inherent problems in centralized architectures, thereby improving system efficiency.
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