• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.89-96
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• 2009

In the future energy environment, a power information system will meet the real-time capability to process the emergency events, unexpected blackouts or over-load, and the high performance to provide the consumer service events such as remote meter reading. In addition to, it must have facility which is able to process a large information occurred on system effectively. In this paper, we developed a distributed power information system based on event with metadata processing technique which was both load balancing and decreased hot spot using XML that was efficient for information exchange. In order to experiment, we made a reduced future power system with controling power device using wireless communications and we could do experiments through it.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.737-747
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• 2012

Recently, in order to support automatic meter reading for conventional metering devices, an image processing-based approach of recognizing the number meter data in the captured meter images has attracted many researchers' interests. Numerical character segmentation is a very critical process for successful recognition. In this paper, we propose an efficient numeric character segmentation method which can segment numeric characters well for any metering device types under diverse illumination environments. The proposed method consists of two consecutive stages; detection of number area containing all numbers as a tight ROI(Region of Interest) and segmentation of numerical characters in the ROI. Detection of tight ROI is achieved in two steps: extraction of rough ROI by utilizing horizontal line segments after illumination enhancement preprocessing, and making the rough ROI more tight through clipping utilizing vertical and horizontal projection about binarized ROI. Numerical character segmentation in the detected ROI is stably achieved in two processes of 'vertical segmentation of each number region' and 'number segmentation in the each vertical segmented number region'. Through the experiments about a homegrown meter image database containing various meter type images of low contrast, low intensity, shadow, and saturation, it is shown that the proposed numeric character segmentation method performs effectively well for any metering device types under diverse illumination environments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.125-136
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• 2011

The vulnerabilities existed in Korean electricity control systems is unexposed because it is being operated in a closed network with superior security. The threat will become greater once the closed network develops into a smart grid environment with superior intelligence. Security will have a greater impact once each household will be connected to the power plant via the smart meter. This research focuses on stable data transfer in harsh external environment and whole-nation coverage network, and suggested standardized and optimized Virtual Private Network (VPN) Gateway architecture to support Power Line Communication (PLC). The functionality and stability of the prototype has been verified with field tests. For implementation of outdoor type VPN device for smart grid, we adopted PLC low voltage remote-meter-net for data communication. Also, IPSec type tunneling and ARIA algorithm based encryption of data collected by PLC low voltage remote meter is transmitted.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.419-419
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• 2021

수자원 관리 패러다임은 공급 위주에서 수요관리로 전환되고 있다. 가용한 수자원은 한정적이나 급속한 인구증가와 도시화로 인한 물 수요의 증가로 수요관리의 효율성이 중시되고 있기 때문이다. 기존 상수도시스템은 노후화로 가동효율이 점차 낮아지고 있으며, 인력으로 월 또는 격월로 소비자의 물 사용량을 검침해 실시간 관리가 불가능하여 수요와 공급의 불균형을 초래한다. 이러한 문제를 해결할 대안으로 IT 기술과 전통적인 물관리 기술을 접목한 Smart Water Grid는 양방향 통신장치를 이용해 실시간으로 소비자의 물 사용량을 모니터링한다. 물 사용 특성을 잘 파악하면 보다 정확한 물 수요 예측이 가능하다. 특히 소비자들의 시간별, 평일, 주말, 그리고 주별 물 사용 특성을 파악하면 미래 물 수요 예측에 도움이 된다. 예측된 물 수요량에 따라 물 공급 배분 계획을 수립하여 운영 효율성을 높일 수 있다. 물 수요예측 방법 중 k-mean 군집분석은 시간별 물 사용량을 이용해 서로 유사한 여러 개의 부분집합으로 할당하여 분류하는 Machine learing 방법으로 물 사용의 유사성을 파악할 수 있다. SWG 연구단은 2019년 Vietnam Hai Duong province에 SWG Pilot plant를 구축하고 27개의 Smart water meter를 설치하여 운영하고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 소비자의 물 사용 특성을 분석하기 위해 27개 SWM로부터 수신된 2019년 11월 14일부터 2020년 12월 3일까지 1시간 단위의 물 사용량 데이터를 수집하였다. 그리고 k-mean 군집 방법을 이용해 시간별, 평일, 주말, 그리고 주별 물 사용 특성을 분석하였다. 이 때 최적의 군집 개수 결정을 위해 Elbow 방법을 적용하였다. 분석 결과 각 소비자의 물 사용량 특성에 따라 평균 물 수요패턴 추정이 가능하며, 향후 물 수요 예측에 도움이 될 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.34 no.10
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• pp.656-663
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• 2012

After the construction of waterworks automatic meter reading with 15 mm diameter digital water mater with magnetoresistance sensor developed in this study at 96 households of apartment complexes located in Incheon-City B-Gu S-Dong, the feasibility of field application of waterworks automatic meter reading was evaluated. The field application of waterworks automatic meter reading was performed from July to December in 2011, and average reception rate was as low as 84.6% due to the instable wibro networks, the existence of communication blackout and temporary malfunction of router. After the extraction of 10 households with one to five residents out of 96 households by using stratified random sampling method and analysis of domestic water use, it was found that domestic water use was significant at August and showed a decreasing trend at September, followed by increase in domestic water use at November and decrease in domestic water use at December. This phenomenon should be attributed to weather factors (temperature, humidity, etc.), which significantly affected domestic water use. Similar trend in domestic water use in terms of weather factors was obtained in case of Liter per capita day of water use after the extraction of 30 households out of 96 households by using stratified random sampling method. After analysis of Liter per capita day for 96 households, single residents increases resulted in reduction of domestic water usage by about 14% of Liter per capita day. These results might be due to the fact that domestic water usage such as laundry, beverages, catering, cleaning, etc. should be required for even the household with one resident, whereas domestic water usage for those common utilization can be significantly saved for the household with more than one resident.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.16D no.3
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• pp.307-316
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• 2009

In this paper, the spatiotemporal data mining methodology for detecting a cycle of power consumption pattern with the change of time and spatial was proposed, and applied to the power consumption data collected by GIS-AMR system with an aim to use its resulting knowledge in real world applications. First, partial clustering method was applied for cluster analysis concerned with the aim of customer's power consumption. Second, the patterns of customer's power consumption data which contain time and spatial attribute were detected by 3D cube mining method. Third, using the calendar pattern mining method for detection of cyclic patterns in the various time domains, the meanings and relationships of time attribute which is previously detected patterns were analyzed and predicted. For the evaluation of the proposed spatiotemporal data mining, we analyzed and predicted the power consumption patterns included the cycle of time and spatial feature from total 266,426 data of 3,256 customers with high power consumption from Jan. 2007 to Apr. 2007 supported by the GIS-AMR system in KEPRI. As a result of applying the proposed analysis methodology, cyclic patterns of each representative profiles of a group is identified on time and location.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.482-493
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• 2014

Many kinds of carbon emission monitoring systems or integrated systems have been developed so far. However, despite of the development of related techniques, they tend to be lack of statistic processing functions for feedback and policy-making data for users. In this study, a new CEMS (Carbon Emission Monitoring System) has been suggested and implemented in Sejong City, Korea. This system adapted automatic remote reading system from the site management agency as data hub to collect the electricity, gas and water usage of each household. The CEMS is consisted of 6 parts; carbon emission measurement, carbon emission standard setup and management, statistic analysis and the incentives. CEMS is distinguished with other systems for its UIs for users and the administrators. Also, data sharing with urban information system(UIS) of local government to produce information for users and policy-makers. This system makes it possible to investigate the change of energy consumption patterns, especially depending on the family structure and the housing characteristics. Furthermore, analyzing their correlation with carbon emission, it is expected to provide basic data used to establish urban environmental policies.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.105-116
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• 1996

This study is based upon the thermal modeling, analysis and operational results of KITSAT-1 and KITSAT-2 microsatellites launched on August 11, 1992 and Septermber 26, 1993, respectively. As KITSAT-1/2 was designed to be launched as an auxiliary payload of ARIANE launcher, the constraints on volume, power consumption, and mass were required to adopt passive thermal control method controlling absorptivity, emissivity, and conductivities among adjacent modules. The main of KITSAT was to take Earth images using CCD cameras positioned at the bottom of spacecraft, in which the cameras were always pointing to the center of Earth. This study is concerned with orbital analysis, thermal modeling, simulation results, and its verification by utilizing in-orbit telemetry data of KITSAT-2. The results of telemetry analysis show that the thermal modeling is matched to actual temperature data within 10 degrees of error range in average.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.71-77
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose an improved numeric character recognition method which can recognize numeric characters well under low-illuminated and shade-illuminated environment. The LN(Local Normalization) preprocessing method is used in order to enhance low-illuminated and shade-illuminated image quality. The reading area is detected using line segment information extracted from the illumination-normalized meter images, and then the three-phase procedures are performed for segmentation of numeric characters in the reading area. Finally, an efficient hybrid classifier is used to classify the segmented numeric characters. The proposed numeric character classifier is a combination of multi-layered feedforward neural network and template matching module. Robust heuristic rules are applied to classify the numeric characters. Experiments using meter image database were conducted. Meter image database was made using various kinds of meters under low-illuminated and shade-illuminated environment. The experimental results indicates the superiority of the proposed numeric character recognition method.

• Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.111-119
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• 2019

The existing smart grid device authentication system is concentrated on DCU, meter reading FEP and MDMS, and the authentication system for smart meters is not established. Although some cryptographic chips have been developed at present, it is difficult to complete the PKI authentication scheme because it is at the low level of simple encryption. Unlike existing power grids, smart grids are based on open two-way communication, increasing the risk of accidents as information security vulnerabilities increase. However, PKI is difficult to apply to smart meters, and there is a possibility of accidents such as system shutdown by sending manipulated packets and sending false information to the operating system. Issuing an existing PKI certificate to smart meters with high hardware constraints makes authentication and certificate renewal difficult, so an ultra-lightweight password authentication protocol that can operate even on the poor performance of smart meters (such as non-IP networks, processors, memory, and storage space) was designed and implemented. As a result of the experiment, lightweight cryptographic authentication protocol was able to be executed quickly in the Cortex-M3 environment, and it is expected that it will help to prepare a more secure authentication system in the smart grid industry.