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S4.2 Toward the data-driven "smart" and "green" hospital-care*
Vasileios (Basile) P. Spyropoulos (Technological Education Institute of Athens and National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Avrilios Alexandropoulos (National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, Greece), Nada Boci (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Greece), Eleni Chatziapostolou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece),
Eleftheria Panagiota Frappa (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Eleni
Georgiadou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Iosif Louts (National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Ioannis Pantelakis (National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, Greece), Maria Poultsaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Greece), Marianna Kanella Xenaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

The Hospital is the most complex and representative establishment of the society and nowadays,
among the most costly ones. ICTs may rationalize personnel-efforts and reduce energy and
material-wasting, to enable health-care coverage, of unprivileged social-groups. The aim of the
paper is to present the most effective and efficient means and tools, reducing unnecessary cost,
as Mobile IP-network, Service-oriented architecture, provided to other components, through a
communication protocol, over α network, Ubiquitous-computing, Femtocells, small, low-power
cellular base-stations, typically designed for use in a hospital-department, ward-room or unit,
Wireless mesh-networks, made-up of radio-nodes, organized in a mesh-topology, supporting

intra-hospital data-exchange, training Multimedia-sharing over wireless networks, for real-time
or compressed data-streaming over IP/wireless-networks for communication or archiving.
Green-computing in wireless-networks, are limiting people and material intra-hospital
"circulation" and, thus, they are enabling the necessary environmentally friendly and smooth
procedures. Standardization, policies and regulations for green communications and computing,
in "green" Hospitals are indispensable and ICTs enable procedures optimization, solving energy-
and material-waste problems, reducing the overall operational-cost, in the emerging "smart,
green and networked" Hospital, in favor of the people in need.
Socio-economics and educational case study with cost-effective IoT campus by the use of
S4.3 wearable, tablet, cloud and open e-learning services*

Toshiki Ueda, Yoshikazu Ikeda (Otani University, Japan)

In this paper the authors show a case study reporting educational experiences in a Japanese
university's digital campus supported by the cost-performance improvement in Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) including electronic devices and networks. The authors also
report the use of wristband wearable devices to monitor walking and sleeping habits of a student
and the influence on health consciousness. Considering education effectively on campus has
become important in every country and area worldwide. In this regards, we have conducted a
socio-economics case study with cost-effective ICT and Internet of Things (IoT) devices
including tablet PC, wearable and e-learning services. In order to promote educational

innovation regardless of economic and political status of each country, the standardization is
urgent and important concerning education methods with advanced technologies. We propose
ITU to study best practices in education in terms of network, devices, applications, contents and
teaching methods. ITU should seek the quality of education methods including managing
operational aspects like ISO 9001 Quality management and ISO/IEC 27001 Information security
management. In this paper our case study consists of two parts, a deployment of large-scale
tablet PCs and a successful improvement in student's Body Mass Index (BMI) implemented by
wearable devices as a basic condition for study attitude.

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