SHIH-CHEN FAN2026-10-162026-10-162008-01-01Pure ID: 14950761Pure UUID: 0b6d11d0-5f19-4c72-9b92-76b267f5b05910.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811630https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/70049115206https://scholars.csmu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/25617Telemonitoring and remote healthcare are two ICT techniques promise to deliver cost effective long-term healthcare services to the aging population worldwide. Anticipating an emerging market opportunity, NCTU Kannon project team is creating Custos, an open composeable platform for developing remote on-demand healthcare applications using smart phones and wireless sensor networks. Custos1 is integrated readily with Internet web services and UPnP digital-home platform so that it can be used to detect abnormal health conditions through multi-sensor data fusion, adapt environment conditions to user needs, dispatch medical alerts and instigateremedial actions via SMS/RSS communication. Moreover, Custos is easy to program because it uses Sun SPOT and Squawk Java J2ME as its sensor/actuator hub. In this position paper, we presentthe design principles, system architecture and operation concepts of Custos as well as a pilotplan for clinical trials in the Geriatric Psychiatry Ward of Wei-Gong Memorial Hospital in Miaoli, Taiwan.6enjournal article