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Figure 4. Robot-assisted multiple patient monitoring and remote home caring.

medical data are stored. The camera of a mobile
robot has multiple simultaneous connections
with patch sensors of patients. Figure 4 shows a
robot-based fast access scheme. The robot can
move around a hospital. The camera also has
the functionalities, such as video capture, emotion detection, and OCC. It can transfer the captured video, monitored data, and emotiondetected information to local or global hospitals.
In case of a COVID-19 situation, the mobile robot
will be used for monitoring the health conditions
of multiple patients remotely such as measuring
of temperature. The monitored data are transmitted to a robot through an OCC system. Then,
5G or VLC system connects the robot to the gateway. The monitored data can be observed by a
remote doctor and authentic mobile users.
These data can be accessed locally or globally.

Monitoring Multiple Patients at Hospitals
Continuous monitoring of patients in hospitals is a regular task. The monitored data are
sent to a medical doctor for analysis. Sometimes,
busy doctors need to visit a patient to know the
patient's health conditions. The OCC-based
eHealth system can provide a good solution for
this issue. It is possible to simultaneously
receive multiple information from multiple
patients using the OCC system, which is a big
advantage of our proposed eHealth system. In
Figure 4, a robot is simultaneously monitoring
the medical data of multiple patches from multiple patients. The robot is intelligent enough to
analyze the data. The data received by the OCC

system are forwarded to servers, doctors, or
other systems.

Remotely Monitoring Patients at Home
Future eHealth systems are expected to
remotely monitor patients at home. The OCC
system is possibly the best solution in this
regard. The remote monitoring of a patient at
home is also shown in Figure 4. The doctor at a
hospital can remotely monitor the patient's condition and give advice. Wearable patches/sensors collect the patient's monitored data; then,
LEDs or LED arrays with the patches/sensors
transmit the collected data to the OCC system
installed inside the home. The OCC system can
be connected to any wired backhaul network,
e.g., ISPs and cable TVs. If wired backhaul connectivity is unavailable, it can be connected
through a wireless backhaul network, e.g., 5G
networks.
Monitoring Patients in an Ambulance
During transportation, it is extremely important to care for the patient. OCC-based eHealth
system installed inside an ambulance can also
help to remotely monitor the patient. The doctor
can observe the patient continuously from a hospital. Figure 5 shows fast patient monitoring at
an ambulance through OCC and 5G systems.
While transporting a patient by an ambulance,
our system can provide remote caring and monitoring of the patient. The OCC system in the
ambulance receives the monitored data and
then forwards it to the hospital or doctor

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