SCH: INT: Connected Smart Hospitals Enabled by Visible Light Communication

SCH：INT：可见光通信支持的互联智能医院

• 批准号: 1838702
• 负责人: Gang Chen
• 金额: $ 120万
• 依托单位: University of California-Riverside
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-15 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1838702&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCH; INT; Connected; Smart; Hospitals; SCH; INT; Connected; Smart; Hospitals

Transformation in health and medicine calls for innovation and integration of information science and engineering approaches to revolutionize healthcare delivery systems, including high-performance wireless communication and sensing technologies. Radio-frequency (RF) wireless technologies can interfere with sensitive medical equipment, hence are not universally accepted in hospitals. This research will develop and apply a visible light communication platform technology, overlaying the existing lighting infrastructure using emerging greener solid-state light-emission diode bulbs, for live tracking and efficient networking to enable smart, connected and efficient hospitals. The scope of work and contributions include developing a novel radio-frequency-free harmless light-emission diode based visible light communication platform technology to enable two-way real-time light-based tracking and networking for smart and connected hospitals, a dynamic event-based behavioral model to simulate building-user interactions in hospital settings, and an artificial intelligence enhanced algorithm to facilitate people-data-system-connected intelligent healthcare ecosystems. Success of the proposed research will transform the field of medicine and health, and achieve affordable and efficient healthcare delivery. The research outcomes will have tremendous societal and economic impacts to the nation and humanity.The goal of this four-year project is to develop and apply a transformative tracking, networking and operation technologies, using visible light communication (VLC) technology, to enable smart, connected and efficient hospitals. The technical approach will be to overlay the innovative light emission diode (LED) based VLC platform technology on the existing LED lighting infrastructure in a hospital to provide a wireless network for real-time visible light tracking and communications without using radio-frequency (RF) signals, which can interfere with sensitive medical equipment. The technical contributions include novel RF-free LED-based VLC platform technologies and system-on-a-chip solutions to enable two-way real-time visible light tracking and networking for smart and connected hospitals, new dynamic event-based behavioral models to simulate building-user interactions in hospital settings, and innovative artificial intelligence enhanced algorithms to facilitate people-data-system-connected intelligent healthcare delivery ecosystems.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

健康和医学的转型要求信息科学和工程方法的创新和整合，以彻底改变医疗保健输送系统，包括高性能无线通信和传感技术。无线电（RF）无线技术可以干扰敏感的医疗设备，因此在医院中并未普遍接受。这项研究将开发和应用可见光的通信平台技术，使用新兴绿色固态光排放二极管灯泡覆盖现有的照明基础设施，用于实时跟踪和有效的网络，以启用智能，连接和高效的医院。 The scope of work and contributions include developing a novel radio-frequency-free harmless light-emission diode based visible light communication platform technology to enable two-way real-time light-based tracking and networking for smart and connected hospitals, a dynamic event-based behavioral model to simulate building-user interactions in hospital settings, and an artificial intelligence enhanced algorithm to facilitate people-data-system-connected intelligent healthcare生态系统。拟议的研究的成功将改变医学和健康领域，并实现负担得起，有效的医疗保健。研究成果将对国家和人类产生巨大的社会和经济影响。这项四年项目的目标是使用可见光通信（VLC）技术开发和应用变革性的跟踪，网络和运营技术，以启用智能，互联和高效的医院。技术方法将是在医院现有的LED照明基础设施上覆盖创新的光发射二极管（LED）VLC平台技术，以提供无线网络，用于实时可见光跟踪和通信，而无需使用射频（RF）信号，这可以干扰敏感的医疗设备。 The technical contributions include novel RF-free LED-based VLC platform technologies and system-on-a-chip solutions to enable two-way real-time visible light tracking and networking for smart and connected hospitals, new dynamic event-based behavioral models to simulate building-user interactions in hospital settings, and innovative artificial intelligence enhanced algorithms to facilitate people-data-system-connected intelligent healthcare delivery生态系统。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准的评估来支持的。