Bridging the Gap: Tele-Health & Long-Distance Learning in Remote Areas

1. Hardware framework research of long-distance learning and tele-health applications supported by space technology in Asia-Pacific Region Yunnan Yinmore Telecommunication Technology Co.,Ltd WenHuaChu October 2005

2. Introduction on Yunnan Yinmore • Operation of Satellite Earth Station including installation and maintenance • Two antennas, 7.2m and 7m by use of KU band • DVB-S, DVB/IP, TDM/TDMA, SCPC, DAMA • Business including Tobacco Financial Electricity Power, Distance Learning, Paging System and Remote Station two thousand one way and one thousand two way around China • Satellite Communications Broadcast good for point to multi-point • Focus on tele-health and tele-learning

3. Summary One: The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning in the remote areas Two: The positive effect of tele-health and long-distance to social development in the remote areas Three: Technology systems and business modes Four: Equipment model and configuration Five: The end

4. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas 1-1 Economically & socially imbalanced development among different areas Economically imbalanced development among different areas is a common problem for many countries. .

5. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas In the recent decades, Generally speaking, economy has increased quickly and permanently in the Asia-Pacific Region, but the problems of imbalanced economy and area gap are still ineffectively controlled, some aspect even tend to stand out. In 1980s, Economy have gained great achievement in China, Many areas have gotten bigger development. But imbalance is simultaneously happening among areas, especially for resource and economic imbalance. the gap among areas is getting bigger and bigger.

6. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas The economic gap among areas is getting bigger and bigger. In 1980, the average GDP for per person is 1.53 times and 1.8 times as big as middle and western areas respectively. Until ninety age,the gap has gotten bigger,for example figure one: While in 2002, its average GDP for per person is 2.08times and 2.63times as big as above-mentioned areas.

7. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas Figure one: Time sequence figure of four big area’s GDP for per person from 1991 to 2003.

8. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas China: Education actuality in the village (Statistic data in 2000) Over fifteen years old people is not over seven years in average educated time in the village,There are three years gap with average level in the city. The labour popular Between fifteen years old to sixty-four years old in the village,People whose educated over junior college education is not over one percent,it is lower thirteen percent than in city.

9. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas There are eighty-five million illiterate or semiliterate,over three-quarter people concentrate in the west village 、minority area and remote areas. In the Yunnan of China: Education actuality in the village There are seventy-three areas which are supported mainly by country in the one hundred and twenty-six agricultural areas of Yunnan.it is 12.33 percent which are supported mainly in the total five hundred and ninety-two areas,illiterate people is 19.02 percent in the poorly areas.

10. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas Over ten million poorly population is 30.96 percent that there are thirty-two million four hundred and fifty-seven thousand and three hundred total population in the village of Yunnan. These poor population mainly live in deep mountainous area、stone mountainous area 、cold mountainous area 、 dry intertropical area 、minority area and frontier area.

11. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas China：Medicine service actuality in the village According to the third country’s medicine service investigation in 2003,at present 79.1 percent population could not have any medical insurance in the village. Poor population because of illness and reversional poor population are two-part of pool population in the village,the rate of dying is sixty to eighty percent in the middle west area because there are not money to cure.

12. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas 22 percent of total population in the world,but medicine fare is only 2 percent of total medicine fare in the world, 80 percent population live in city,there are 1.5 doctor in the average every one thousand people.

13. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas 1-2 The concept of long-distance learning and tele-health 1: The concept and characteristic of long- distance learning Long-distance learning, applied through media and lots of education resources, is an activity without time and space limit, which is different from traditional campus education.

14. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas Compare with traditional education, Long distance learning have some characteristic: opening、extending、flexibility and so on.

15. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas 2: The concept of tele-health From broad sense, tele-health means providing medical message and service with communication technology and computer media technology. It include long-distance diagnose 、consulate 、nursing、long-distance learning consultation、 long-distance medicine message server.

16. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas At present, Effective tele-health method is long-distance diagnose、long-distance surgery、medicine expert system in the network，it can sufficiently realize technology and resource sharing.

17. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas 1-3 The positive effect of long-distance learning and tele-health to social development in the remote areas If needing reduce illiteracy people large-scale in the shorter time and improving medicinal level in the outlying areas, only relying on limited routine education and routine medicinal method isn’t enough.

18. The necessity of tele-health and Long-Distance Learning application in the remote areas But holding long-distance learning and tele-health that there are bulky、widespread、flexible teaching method could carry out this target. With communication and computer developing quickly since1990s, various applications of tele-health and long-distance learning is getting more and more mature, it has put up wide foreground. There are successful cases achieving tele-health through satellite and long-distance learning in the Australia、Korea、Japan、America、Russia.

19. Applicative practice of developing tele-health and long-distance learning in the remote areas • Tele-health and long-distance learning are started from late 1980s to early 1990s in China, but it develops quickly. At present, there are 3 million professional students ,1.26million college and technical secondary school teachers 、21 million high and primary school teachers and many peasantry gain training through satellite besides 3.6 million college and technical secondary school students.

20. Applicative practice of developing tele-health and long-distance learning in the remote areas According to the applied long-distance learning and tele-health projects such as:Access to every village,modern remote learning project of middle and primary schools in Rural areas,Golden-Health Network of China and so on had acquired good benefit for economic and social development.

21. Applicative practice of developing tele-health and long-distance learning in the remote areas Our company takes charge to put forword “Application Plan on experimental project among Rural long-distance Integrative Information Centers in Yunnan ”: Establishing experimental spot in rural areas through the technology systems of DVB-S broadcast and terrestrial inbound or internet, forming information center on the basis of computer equipment and education within high and primary school in the village.

22. Applicative practice of developing tele-health and long-distance learning in the remote areas It serves to teaching 、serves to farming development and supply information for peasantry. Until Oct 2005, the item has developed sixteen regions in the whole province and total sixty-six remote sites; the scale and influence of this project are extending gradually under the promotion of government t and enterprises.

23. Applicative practice of developing tele-health and long-distance learning in the remote areas

24. The summary of technology systems and business modes • The star-net constructed long-distance learning/tele-health wide-belt satellite communication system adopts DVB-S broadcast outbound integrates with satellite MF-TMDA inbound or VPN terrestrial inbound technology system. • There are one-way and two way application

25. The summary of technology systems and business modes • One-way application: DVB is a international standard on the basis of establishing MPEG-2 group by group exchange standard,it supplies multimedia platform for voice 、video frequency and data distribution.DVB supplies a transition method with IP group by group exchange network.

26. The summary of technology systems and business modes

27. The summary of technology systems and business modes Two way application:DVB broadcast will include video 、data and IP playing, it can bring into play sufficiently character of satellite broadcast and channel resource sharing, Remote host input IP data information through TDMA or VPN terrestrial inbound channel.Two way system can support flexibly data、videoconference and voice operation, it will supply advanced communication platform for long-distance learning and tele-health.

28. The summary of technology systems and business modes

29. The summary of technology systems and business modes

30. The summary of technology systems and business modes • Five business modes: According the difference of user and application, we think that long-distance learning and tele-health broadband satellite communication system can supply five business modes.

31. The summary of technology systems and business modes 1: DVB broadcast video receiver system (mode one) Using satellite receive antenna 、LNB and digital satellite receiver to form satellite receiving system and configuration color TV、DVD. Using various remote satellite host to make them as a integrative character which holding technologic training for peasantry, and issuing information in agriculture 、network information and medical medicine.

32. The summary of technology systems and business modes They apply for every peasantry family and popularize scientific technology and medical medicine knowledge in agriculture.

33. The summary of technology systems and business modes Mode one: system structural figure

34. The summary of technology systems and business modes 2: Satellite DVB/IP receiver system (mode two) DVB/IP will use digital video and voice system and internet. That is to say, the user can make use of ground dialing or ADSL to internet besides receive video and voice data from satellite, or center data platform, downloading IP any data, the user can also use computer to play video and voice data for accomplishing education training.

35. The summary of technology systems and business modes It applies to primary schools and hygiene station in the village in to realize newer scientific information 、local disease and epidemic prevention in the village.

36. The summary of technology systems and business modes Mode two: system structural figure Satellite DVB/IP receiver system

37. The summary of technology systems and business modes 3: Satellite receiver system and multimedia computer classroom (mode three) Add multimedia projection and computer network classroom on the basis of mode two, which is applicable in information technologic education, local agriculture technology, local hospital and medicine organ training through satellite network as main inputting channel and dialing to get center information platform, using unsymmetrical inputting character to find out and download audio teaching and training data, and it can make teaching and training synchronously, asynchronously and alternately.

38. The summary of technology systems and business modes It applies to information technologic education、local agriculture technology 、 country hospital and medicine organization training in the village.

39. The summary of technology systems and business modes Mode three: system structural figure

40. The summary of technology systems and business modes 4: Satellite two way system and multimedia computer classroom (mode four) Add satellite two way communication function on the basis of mode three, which is applicable in county hospital, medical organization, education training and other medical treatment provided by specialized medical organization that connected with center information platform, such as, long-distance consulting, diagnosing and surgical guidance, it can make teaching and training alternately.

41. The summary of technology systems and business modes Mode four: system structural figure Satellite two way tele-health and teaching system

42. The summary of technology systems and business modes 5: Satellite two way system、videoconference and multimedia computer classroom (mode five) Add videoconference system on the basis of mode four, which is applicable in town city hospital, medical organization, education training and other medical treatment provided by specialized medical organization that connected with center information platform, such as, long-distance consulting, diagnosing and surgical guidance, it can make teaching and training alternately.

43. The summary of technology systems and business modes Mode five: system structural figure Satellite two way tele-health 、teaching and videoconference system

44. The end • Making use of satellite communication to build information center in the village, and to provide information services related to internet, electronic library 、remote education 、database 、videoconference 、tele-health 、broadcast 、video program 、email 、voice service 、government 、community 、market 、price and environment.

45. The end • Such service method utilize the advantages of large-scale covered satellite, non-relation between communication cost and geographical location, and the remote terminal platform which is easy-constructed, flexible, low-cost, shorter period and excellent resource-shared. Therefore, such kind of service will play an important role in both economic construction in poor areas and peaceable social development.

46. The end • Asia-Pacific Region hold about over half of population in the world, most of them live on agriculture and live in poor area in the village. Many Asia-Pacific regions are isolated with developed countries for their inconvenient road, transportation, electricity and communication infrastructure rising from mountain, ocean, desert and forest.

47. The end • So we think that long-distance learning and tele-health modes in China are good reference for other Asia-Pacific Region. Accessories: Equipment model and configuration

48. Accessories: Equipment model and configuration1: The main configuration of satellite host

49. Accessories: Equipment model and configuration1: The main configuration of satellite host

50. Accessories: Equipment model and configuration1、Satellite host equipment’s configuration