An Integrative Method on the Remote Monitoring of Walking Activity Using Ubiquitous Healthcare System Wildan Toyib 1 , Eun-Sook Lee 2 , and Man-Gon Park 3 1 Department of Advanced Information Science and Technology 2 Department of Information Systems 3 Department of IT Convergences and Application Engineering Pukyong National University, Rep. of Korea wildantoyib@pknu.ac.kr, eslee@kopo.ac.kr, mpark@pknu.ac.kr Abstract: The present concept of u-Healthcare is based on treatment and recuperation and in the future it will become specialized as wellness based on prevention. It is predicted that wellness care among others will develop to become the key field of u-Healthcare. For this reason in this research, ubiquitous technology was grafted to the passometer (P-meter) which is frequently used for monitoring during existing walking exercises. Emerging from the existing method of the P-meter which simply calculates the amount of exercise by counting the number of steps taken, using the GPS incoming data, the distance and speed of the location changes is calculated and the acceleration sensor will reflect the steps and intensity of movement to measure the walking activity amount to realize a smart walker system which will help the maintenance and promotion of modernists health.In this paper, we propose an integrative remote monitoring system for measuring walking activities under ubiquitous healthcare environment considering walking effects in healthcare of human life through the calculation of the distance of location changes and speed using GPS reception data and reflecting the steps and intensity of movement using the acceleration sensor. Index Terms: Ubiquitous (u)-Healthcare systems, distance healthcare service system, walking activity, electronic space remote monitoring. 1. Introduction The aged societies have been rapidly increased as the standard of living improved and medical technology developed globally. Korea became an aging society in the year 2000 when its population aged 65 or older became higher than 7% and it is predicted that the Korean society will enter the early stages of the aged society in 2026 when the population aged 65 or older exceeds 20% of the total population.The number of cases of chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, among others, is increasing rapidly due to the course of the aging society and the improved standard of living caused by the changes of life style. For this reason, the need to reduce medical expenses of the government and medical insurance is increasing. Also, thanks to the increase of income and interest in health consumption in the medical area is increasing but the level of satisfaction of medical costs is low and the needs for medical services are increasing[1]. For thisreason the u(ubiquitous)-Healthcare is emerging industry as a new medical service paradigm which uses internet, mobile, among other information communication technology (ICT) in the existing medical system providing medical health information, knowledge, service, and products to the consumers. As a position industry which supports the new industrial product creation which leads the 21st century and the existing products which creates high value, the u-Health Industry is predicted to create new high values linked with information technology, biotechnology, environmental technology, Nano-new material technology, among others. U-Healthcare based on convergence of IT and Healthcare provides information services through Received: April 10 th , 2011. Accepted: December 20 th , 2011 International Journal on Electrical Engineering and Informatics ‐ Volume 3, Number 4, 2011 453