• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.715-724
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• 2017

Today all kinds of smart devices are being developed with various researches on wearable devices that support smart computing on the human body. Skin diseases continue to rise including freckles, pimples, atopy, and scalp trouble due to the environmental and genetic factors, and people pay bigger medical bills to treat their skin diseases. There is thus a need to develop a smart-phone or table-based smart healthcare imaging system of high portability and diagnostic accuracy capable of analyzing and managing various skin problems related to skin care. This study proposed an integrated system combining the Smart Mi Band, a wearable device using moisture and UV sensors based on IoT, on the hardware part with the sensor information monitoring software.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.73-79
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• 2019

Research is underway on services and systems that provide real-time alerts for suffocating gases and potentially explosive materials, but currently smart bend type services are lacking. This study supports real-time identification of explosion hazards due to static electricity in the workplace and immediate elimination of accident occurrence factors, real-time monitoring of worker status and workplace hazards (oxygen, hazardous chemical concentration), and immediate warning and data in case of danger. We propose a method of establishing an accident prevention system through analysis. In this way, various accidents that may occur in industrial sites are monitored using IoT-based intelligent sensor nodes, wireless network technology, data processing middleware, and integrated control system, and real-time risk information at the industrial sites is prevented and accidents are prevented. By supporting a safe working environment, the company can significantly reduce costs compared to post-procurement costs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.237-238
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• 2016

대부분의 작업환경에서는 여러 가지 위험요소로 인한 안전사고가 자주 발생한다. 추락이나 작업환경의 붕괴 등 안전사고 발생시, 작업자가 관리자에게 응급상황을 전해야하지만, 사고로 인해 작업자가 원활하게 몸을 사용하지 못하는 경우에는 응급상황을 전달하는데 문제점이 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 블루투스로 스마트폰에 응급상황을 전할 수 있는 웨어러블 단말기와 스마트폰의 WI-FI나 LTE망을 사용하여 작업자의 상황을 실시간으로 모니터링 할 수 있는 안전 시스템을 설계한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.702-704
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 비전 기술 및 스마트 밴드를 이용하여 집 안에서 노인의 자세 및 심박 수와 체온과 같은 건강 상태를 24시간 모니터링하여 위급상황을 인지하고 알려주는 서비스를 제공하는 시스템을 제안한다. 독거 노인의 비율이 증가함에 따라 노인들을 관리하고 보호하기 위한 시스템의 필요성이 대두되었다. 기존 연구에서 비전 기술을 사용해 사람의 자세만을 인식해 위급상황을 판단하는 것에 비해 본 연구에서는 스마트 밴드를 결합하여 위급상황 판단에 대한 정확도를 향상시켰다. 또한, 사람의 자세와 심박 수나 체온이 특정 값 이하 또는 이상으로 인지가 되는 경우 보호자에게 알림을 주어 적절한 대처를 취할 수 있도록 어플리케이션을 제공한다.

• Journal of KIBIM
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.75-90
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• 2021

A smart home system improves the elderly's quality of life by monitoring and analyzing their movements and health conditions with better health-care and social support services. Therefore, there has been an effort to adopt a smart home system for the independently living elderly. However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has investigated the usability of a smart home system on actual independently living elderly housing in long-term settings. Thus, this study aims to demonstrate the usability of a smart home system on independently living elders in living lab conditions. The BLE smart band and the BLE receiver were chosen for the smart home system to monitor the movement of the participants in their homes as well as to monitor the heart rates, step counts, sleep index. Nine independent living elderly from the senior welfare center in Kimjae participated in this living lab demonstration experiment for ten months. This demonstration experiment confirmed the effectiveness of low-cost and easily adoptable IoT-based BLE sensor sets on independent living elders and discussed the troubles and limitations of the experiment. By grasping the pros and cons of IoT-based BLE sensor sets, this study seeks to improve the accessibility and usability of smart home systems for the elderly population in independent living arrangements.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.359-359
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• 2023

최근 기후변화로 인한 홍수 및 가뭄과 같은 자연재해가 증가함에 따라 이를 선제적으로 탐지 및 예방할 수 있는 해결책에 대한 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 이러한 수재해를 예방하기 위해서 하천, 저수지 등 가용수자원의 지속적인 모니터링은 필수적이다. SAR 위성 영상의 경우 주야간 및 기상상황에 상관없이 지속적인 수체 탐지가 가능하다. 일반적으로 SAR 기반 수체 탐지 시 송수신 방향이 동일한 편파(co-polarized) 영상을 사용한다. 하지만 co-polarized 영상의 경우 바람 및 강우에 민감하게 반응하여 수체 미탐지의 가능성이 존재한다. 한편 송수신 방향이 서로 다른 편파(cross-polarized) 영상은 강우 및 바람의 영향에 민감하지 않지만 식생에 민감하게 반응하여 수체의 오탐지율이 높다는 단점이 존재한다. 이에 SAR 영상의 편파 특성에 따라 수체 탐지의 정확도 차이가 발생하여 최적의 편파 영상 조합을 구성하는 것이 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 Sentinel-1 SAR 위성의 VV, VH, VV+VH 편파 영상과 머신러닝 알고리즘 중 하나인 SVM (support vector machine)을 활용하여 수체탐지를 수행하였다. 편파 영상 조합별 수체 탐지 결과의 검증을 위하여 혼동행렬 (confusion matrix) 기반 평가지수를 사용하였다. 각각의 수체탐지 결과의 비교 및 분석을 통하여 SAR 기반 수체 탐지를 위한 최적의 밴드 조합을 도출하였다. 본 연구결과를 바탕으로 차후 높은 시공간 해상도를 가진 SAR 영상의 활용이 가능하다면 수재해 및 수자원 관리의 효율성을 높일 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.67-78
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• 2022

Interest in bio-signal monitoring of wearable devices is increasing significantly as the next generation needs to develop new devices to dominate the global market of the information and communication technology industry. Accordingly, this research developed a resistive textile strain sensor through a wetting process in a single-wall carbon nanotube dispersion solution using an E-Band with low hysteresis. To measure the resistance signal in the E-Band to which electrical conductivity is applied, a universal material tester, an Arduino, and LCR meters that are microcontroller units were used to measure the resistance change according to the tensile change. To effectively handle various noises generated due to the characteristics of the fabric textile strain sensor, the filter performance of the sensor was evaluated using the moving average filter, Savitsky-Golay filter, and intermediate filters of signal processing. As a result, the reliability of the filtering result of the moving average filter was at least 89.82% with a maximum of 97.87%, and moving average filtering was suitable as the noise filtering method of the textile strain sensor.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.8
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• pp.18-26
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• 2015

Measuring the heart rate during exercise is important to properly control the amount of exercise. With the recent advent of smart device usage, there is a dramatic increase in interest in devices for the real-time measurement of the heart rate during exercise. During intensive exercise, accurate heart rate estimation from wrist-type photoplethysmography (PPG) signals is a very difficult problem due to motion artifact (MA). In this study, we propose an efficient algorithm for an accurate estimation of the heart rate from wrist-type PPG signals. For the twelve data sets, the proposed algorithm achieves the average absolute error of 1.38 beat per minute (BPM) and the Pearson correlation between the estimates and the ground-truth of heart rate was 0.9922. The proposed algorithm presents the strengths in an accurate estimation together with a fast computation speed, which is attractive in application to wearable devices.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.195-200
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• 2016

With development of wearable devices, there is an increased interest in bio-signal monitoring techniques that can measure the user's health condition. However, embedding several bio-signal sensors in one wearable device has some inherent problems in terms of limited resources such as its size. Furthermore, such problem also arise when new bio-signal sensors are added. In this paper, we introduced the Bio-Cradle, which is a Plug-in module that can transfer the biological signals in real time from the accelerometer, ECG, or PPG sensor to other wearable devices at the request from the user of wearable devices. When the Bio-Cradle plugged in to the other device, it can transfer several synchronized bio-signals regardless of the type of device.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.193-198
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• 2017

Recently, as interest in health increases, various wearable devices such as smart watch and smart band which can measure user's biometric information are being studied. Conventional wearable devices service the measured biometric information in a form that provides simple monitoring, disease prevention, and exercise amount. However, the user is Lack to deal with the dangerous situation. In this paper, we propose a hazard notification system to address these problems. The biometric information measured by the acceleration sensor and the heart rate sensor is transmitted to the application through the Arduino in real time. It identifies the risk situation through sensor priority measurement and risk situation identification algorithm. If a dangerous situation occurs, a notification message is sent to the guardian indicating the current location of the user. Therefore, it can be expected that if a dangerous situation occurs to a user who needs protection, he can respond promptly.