• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.371-379
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• 2009

Conventional sensor node operating systems do not support sensor abstraction for sensor applications. So, application programmers have to take charge of developing the hardware and the device drivers for the applications by themselves. In this paper, we present an as architecture to support sensor abstraction. The as provide not only application programmers with API library to access sensor devices, but also sensor developers with HAL library to access sensor hardware. This can reduce the development burden of application programmers significantly. In this paper, at first, we define the sensor HW interface to ease the attachment of sensors. Second, we describe the sensor access API for application programmers. Third, we define the HAL library for sensor device programmers to use. Finally, we show that the as can support sensor abstraction by illustrating the sample programs.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.16D no.2
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• pp.177-184
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• 2009

Environmental monitoring systems are widely developed for analyzing environment and understanding an ecosystem according to the advance of wireless communication and various sensing techniques. To extract useful information, it requires high cost for processing a query, because these systems have to handle huge volume of raw sensor data which is transmitted from a wide area in environmental monitoring applications. Besides, it is also hard to answer an user defined query which requests to check current and near future condition. In this paper, we propose the monitoring system structure for processing a user defined query for environmental monitoring. It also describes the utilization of sensor data filtering and abstraction model. The designed abstraction model which is based on the slope grid in GIS supports fast data access and update. To analyze condition, the extracted data from abstraction model of each sensor type is combined in a query processor. It is useful to provide meaningful information to users.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06c
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• pp.5-10
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• 2010

휴대용 단말기를 활용하는 위치 기반 서비스는 기존의 단순한 위치 정보 제공 및 분석에서 보다 개인화되고 지능화되고 있다. 이러한 모바일 추천 서비스는 이동 객체의 위치 정보 뿐만 아니라 객체의 주변 환경 정보도 고려하여 보다 쾌적한 서비스를 제공한다. 이를 위해, 시간에 따라 변화하는 이동 객체의 위치추적은 물론, 온도, 습도, 미세먼지, 등의 다양한 센서 데이터도 상황에 맞게 해석하고 활용할 수 있어야 한다. 그리고 다양한 센서 종류와 함께 수많은 센서 데이터를 해석하여, 전체적인 상황을 판단하기 위해서는 센서 데이터를 적절히 표현하는 데이터 모델의 활용이 필요하다. 이 논문에서는 모바일 추천 서비스에서 환경 정보를 제공하기 위하여 활용한 경사 그리드 기반의 센서데이터 추상화 모델과 그 처리 방법을 기술한다. 추상화 모델은 경사 방향을 활용하여 간단하게 해당 지역의 데이터 경향을 나타낸다. 그리고 색인과 연산자를 활용한 처리방법을 통해 환경 정보를 제공하는 과정을 설명한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.94-96
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• 2022

Plug & Play techniques have been proposed in various ways to overcome the complexity of sensors/drivers in IoT application development. IEEE1451 standard abstracts sensors/drivers into a data structure called TEDS. As a result, characteristics of the sensor/driver are unnecessary when connecting the sensor/driver to the host device. The method proposed by ETRI is a format in which device drivers of sensors/drivers are dynamically loaded and connected to hosts, and there is no particular abstraction data structure. Both schemes are located at both ends in terms of the abstraction unit of the sensor/driver. We present the problem based on this fact, and what optimized methods can exist in the middle of it. In this paper, we analyze existing Plug&Play techniques. Also, we specify abstraction units of sensors/drivers, and analyze them.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.446-451
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• 2015

Recently, researches on sensor-based U-health applications that provide personal health information such as blood pressure, body temperature, and glucose, have actively been studied. The health information obtained via sensors, however, may have accuracy problems so that they can not be used unprocessed. This paper proposes a sensor abstraction layer for enhancing the accuracy of sensor readings from biomedical sensors that interact with smart phones. This layer recognizes sensor types and converts sensor readings into a form as specified in ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Standard. When necessary, not only a filtering method that eliminates outlier values from sensor readings but also a summarization method that transforms them into more suitable forms, can also be applied. An android-based development board is used for the evaluation of proposed sensor abstraction layer. The results obtained by applying filtering and summarization show improved accuracy over unprocessed sensor readings of the body temperature and heartbeat sensors.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.72-80
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• 2009

In this parer, we propose a hardware abstraction architecture(HAA) for low cost flash memories that can be applicable to wireless sensor nodes. The proposed HAA consists of three layers. The three layers are 1) HHL(Hardware Interlace Layer), HAL(Hardware Adaption Layer), and HPL(Hardware Presentation Layer), where HIL provides a platform independent interlace to applications of upper layers, HAL performs hardware resource management, program status control, and generation of logical instructions as main core of the HAA, and HPL initializes hardware and communicates data between MCU and flash memory. We implemented our HAA on AT45DB flash memory, and the HAA used 4,384 bytes program memory and 195 bytes data memory respectively. Since the proposed HAA is composed of well defined three layers and shows a low utilization of memory, it can provides a high efficiency in terms of flexibility, scalability, and re-usability, and thus the HAA is well suited for wireless sensor nodes.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.211-218
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• 2017

Recent robot software platform research focuses on providing intelligent service via abstraction of robot devices. Context-aware techniques are necessary for intelligent robot services, which are based on the perception of environmental information obtained from heterogeneous sensors in IoT environment. Robot Operating System (ROS) provides protocols to operate robot devices. ROS includes functions for abstracting heterogeneous sensors themselves in order to control the robot, however, it lacks the ability to provide context information that the robot can perceive based on environmental information through consistent collection methods. In this paper, we propose a relay system for ROS to provide context-aware robot service. The proposed system makes it possible for ROS to control and provide context-aware robot services with relay of an external context-aware system and ROS. In experiments, we demonstrate procedures that robot services abstracted from ROS and an external context-aware system works together based on the proposed system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.996-997
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• 2008

배터리를 사용하는 센서노드의 전력 소모를 줄이기 위해 많은 방법들이 제안되어 있다. 본 논문에서는 MCU 및 센서의 전력을 관리하는 전력 매니저를 제안한다. 센서의 타입을 설정하고 제안되어 있는 센서의 추상화를 추가한 매니저를 제안한다. Nano-Q+가 스케줄링할 때 센서의 타입을 판단하여 전원을 관리 할 수 있도록 한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.281-285
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• 2008

Wireless sensor networks are closely related with the geometric environment in which they are deployed. We consider the probable case when a routing protocol runs on an environment with many complex obstacles like downtown surroundings. In addition, there are no unrealistic assumptions in order to increase practicality of the protocol. Our goal is to find a routing protocol for maximizing network lifetime by using only connectivity information in the complex sensor network environment. We propose a topology-based routing algorithm that accomplishes good performance in terms of network lifetime and routing complexity as measures. Our routing algorithm makes routing decision based on a weighted graph as topological abstraction of the complex network. The graph conduces to lifetime enhancement by giving alternative paths, distributing the skewed burden. An energy estimation method is used so as to maintain routing information without any additional cost. We show how our approach can be used to maximize network lifetime and by extensive simulation we prove that out approach gives good results in terms of both measures-network lifetime and routing complexity.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.2127-2133
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• 2010

In this paper, we proposed an architecture for supporting sensor transparency in sensor node operating systems, design the standard APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and sensor device abstraction to provide the sensor transparency and implemented the sensor transparency in the TinyOS, the most well known sensor node operating system. With the proposed sensor node operating system which can support the sensor transparency, application developers can develop the target applications independent to each sensor device by using the standard APIs provided by the sensor node operating system and the sensor device manufacturers also can develop sensor device drivers by using the standard hardware interfaces and HAL (Hardware Adaptation Layer) interfaces independent to the specific hardware platform of sensor nodes.