Research on a Service Model for an Internet of Things-based Intelligent Smart Care System

Currently, IoT (Internet of Things) technology actively and intelligently connects several physical objects in our daily lives to each other through the internet using data communications and mutual recognition for interested individuals. This connectivity is employed for various events such as accidents, disasters, and environment, etc. There is a necessity to prepare alternatives to these uses for not only health screening, nursing, and housekeeping service for assisting the recovery of social relationships and ability in daily living, but also for the creation of content for providing necessary information to individuals. This paper reports on a study of smart care service model that focuses on prevention and diagnosis, and is equipped with portability and miniaturization. This smart care service provides a caring service for the elderly and people in need of care by monitoring their health status. It combines various contents including the status recognition module, experiencing module, and sensory module. This is accomplished by using commercial smartphone applications under the IoT environment, transitioning from a medical facility centered service to a user-centered smart care service.