• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.603-610
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• 2015

This paper presents a multimodal sensor system that can determine the location of house space by analyzing the postures and heights of the residents. It consists of two sensors: a tilt sensor and an altimeter sensor. The tilt sensor measures the static and dynamic postures of the residents, and the altimeter sensor measures their heights. The sensor system includes a Bluetooth transmitter, and the server receives the measured data and determines the location in the house. We describe the process determining the locations of the residents after analyzing their postures and behaviors from the measured data. We also demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed system by applying it to a real environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.189-194
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• 2008

센서 노드의 여러 기능들 중 통신이 가장 많은 에너지를 소비하며, 특히 센서 노드의 RF 트랜스시버가 송수신 모드일 때 가장 많은 에너지가 소비된다. 하지만 RF 트랜스시버는 대부분 시간 동안 대기 모드 상태에 있기 때문에 대기 모드 상태에서 소모되는 에너지 총합은 송수신 모드에서의 총 에너지 소비량에 근접한다. 따라서 대기 모드 시간을 최소화하는 것이 에너지 효율 면에서 중요하다고 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 다중 경로를 이용하여 대기 모드 시간을 줄이는 분산 파워 스케줄링 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 기존의 MAC 프로토콜과 함께 동작하여 에너지 효율성을 증대시킬 뿐만 아니라, 분산 및 비동기적 방식으로 동작하기 때문에 네트워크 위상 변화에 쉽게 대응할 수 있다는 장점이 있다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.409-418
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• 2020

In this paper, an integrated optical, evanescent-wave biosensor utilizing a multimode interferometer based on a Si₃N₄ rib-optical waveguide consisting of the Si/SiO₂/Si₃N₄/SiO₂ stacked structure was described. The theoretical background of the multimode interferometer was reviewed, and the structure and design process were presented through numerical computational analysis. We analyzed how the dimension (length, width) of the multimode interferometer affected the sensor performance. It has been confirmed through computational analysis that the changes in the refractive index of an analyte greatly affect the mode pattern formation position and output optical power of a multimode interferometer, and proved that this principle could be applied to integrated-optic biosensor.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.273-278
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• 2002

An intrusion-sensitive capability of multimode graded-index (GRIN) optical fibers under bending has been investigated. In this system, the data light is transmitted in the fundamental mode while alarm monitor light is launched in a high-order mode at the same time. An attempted intrusion to drain data by bending the fiber results in greater attenuation of a monitor signal in higher order modes, thereby setting off an alarm at the receiver. Light propagation in a multimode graded-index fiber is also analyzed theoretically when the fundamental mode is selectively excited and the fiber is bent around a constant radius mandrel. The bending generates coupling between the various modes of the fiber. Power transitions of the fundamental mode by changing the bending radius were also analyzed numerically using program simulation. It is shown that Asawa-Taylor model[4] is valid up to 1cm of the radius of curvature of the fiber bend.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1985.10a
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• pp.31-36
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• 1985

본 논문에서는 그레이더드인덱스 다중모드 광섬유에 압력을 가함으로써 발생되는 마이크로벤딩을 모드 결합 이론으로 분석하고, 그 이론에 의해 모드결합이 최적으로 일어나는 정적벤딩을 통한 주기성을 얻어 시제품 광섬유 음향 트렌스튜서를 설계 및 그것을 이용한 광섬유음향센서를 제작하였다. 제작된 트랜스튜서의 탐지가능한 최소검출압력을 정적벤딩 실험을 통하여 계산하였으며 아울러 제작된 광섬유음향트랜스듀서의 특성을 실험하였다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.14C no.6
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• pp.519-524
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• 2007

One of the most important issues on the sensor network with resource limited sensor nodes is prolonging the network lifetime by effectively utilizing the limited node energy. The most representative mechanism to achieve a long lived sensor network is the clustering mechanism which can be further classified into the single hop mode and the multi hop mode. The single hop mode requires that all sensor nodes in a cluster communicate directly with the cluster head(CH) via single hop md, in the multi hop mode, sensor nodes communicate with the CH with the help of other Intermediate nodes. One of the most critical factors that impact on the performance of the existing multi hop clustering mechanism is the cluster size and, without the assumption on the uniform node distribution, finding out the best cluster size is intractable. Since sensor nodes in a real sensor network are distributed non uniformly, the fixed size mechanism may not work best for real sensor networks. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new dynamic size multi hop clustering mechanism in which the cluster size is determined according to the distance from the sink to relieve the traffic passing through the CHs near the sink. We show that our proposed scheme outperforms the existing fixed size clustering mechanisms by carrying out numerical analysis and simulations.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.82-82
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• 2001

스페클 패턴은 다중모드 광섬유 내를 전파하는 모드 사이의 간섭현상 때문에 발생하는 검은 무늬로서, 외부 섭동 (perturbation)의 크기에 따라 패턴이 바뀌게 된다. 이 현상을 이용하여 본 연구에서는 스페클 센서를 제작하여 실험을 통해 시설물을 원거리, 실시간 원격 감시가 가능하고 매우 민감한 침입자 센서로 응용 가능함을 확인하였다. 본 연구에서는 감도를 높이고 구조를 간단하게 하기 위해, 공간필터를 사용하는 대신 광검출기 홀더를 길이 가변이 가능하도록 지그를 제작하여 사용하였으며, 정류기와 FVC를 사용하여 외부 섭동의 지속시간과 크기를 알 수 있었다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.12C no.6 s.102
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• pp.875-880
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• 2005

One of the most important issues in the sensor network with resource-constrained sensor nodes is prolonging the network lifetime by efficiently utilizing the given energy of nodes. The most representative mechanism to achieve a long-lived network is the clustering mechanism. In this paper, we propose a new dynamic-size multi-hop clustering mechanism in which the burden of a node acting as a cluster head(CH) is balanced regardless of the density of nodes in a sensor network by adjusting the size of a cluster based on the information about the communication load and the residual energy of the node and its neighboring nodes. We show that our proposed scheme outperforms other single-hop or fixed-size multi-hop clustering mechanisms by carrying out simulations.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.925-931
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• 2009

This paper reports a preliminary experimental investigation and characterization of an optical fiber-based submersion sensor system for applications in water flooding and leakage. The sensor system comprises a multi-mode fiber spliced with fiber Bragg grating and an intensity-based interrogator. Submersion tests were conducted in water-air and Glycerin-air environments. By the refractive index of the fiber-probe surrounding materials, the reflectance and the detecting power level is determined. When the probe is dipped into the water, the optical output power dramatically decreases from -7.5dBm to -17.5dBm. But, the center of Bragg wavelength is not affected in spite of external material changes. Temporal response characteristics of the sensor system is investigated to verify the real-time reaction. When the probe is immersed into the liquid, there is no transition time.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.350-355
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• 2005

The probes of fiber optic OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflectometry) sensor was developed to measure displacements of social infrastructures. This probe was simply constructed with two conventional optical fiber connectors, and a fiber bending part, which transforms displacement to optical loss. When the displacement was affected on the bending loss part, the reflected light intensity of one optical connector was changed. The displacement was determined from this reflected light intensity change of the connector. fiber optic OTDR displacement sensor was developed as the multiplexed type of one fiber line with 5 sensor probes. Multiplexing operation was tested by these 5 sensor probes.