• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.79-88
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 RFID와 근거리 무선 통신 기술인 ZigBee를 접목시켜 유비쿼터스 u-Health 시스템을 구현하였다. RFID 태그인식 기술, ZigBee의 데이터 송수신 기술을 이용하는 무선 프로토콜 키트를 만들었고 TinyOS에서 ZigBee의 소프트웨어를 구현하였다. RFID와 접목 가능한 무선 통신 기술들은 Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.11x WLAN 등이 있다. 논문에서 제시한 환경은 무인간병과 같은 u-Health 시스템으로서, 조밀한 sensor 네트워크 환경을 갖게 되는 병원 등의 환경에 적합하도록 ZigBee를 사용한 것이다. RFID와 ZigBee가 부착되는 디바이스들은 앞으로 팔찌, 손목시계, 반지 등의 크기로 소형화 될 것이다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 RFID와 ZigBee 통합 환경은 WBAN(Wireless Body Area Network) 및 WPAN(Wireless Person Area Network)환경에서 상태 정보를 인식하여 원하는 action들로 반응하도록 요구되는 응용에 활용될 수 있다. 태그의 정보와 환자의 상태에 따라 여러 가지 제약사항을 두어 환자의 단말기에 문자정보의 형태로 LCD에 표시하거나, 음성정보로 메시지를 전송하도록 설계하고 구축하였다 RFID는 어플리케이션의 목적에 맞춰 다양한 무선통신 기술과의 결합을 이루어 나갈 것이다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권5_6호
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• pp.481-504
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• 2010

Wireless smart sensor networks (WSSNs) have been proposed by a number of researchers to evaluate the current condition of civil infrastructure, offering improved understanding of dynamic response through dense instrumentation. As focus moves from laboratory testing to full-scale implementation, the need for multi-hop communication to address issues associated with the large size of civil infrastructure and their limited radio power has become apparent. Multi-hop communication protocols allow sensors to cooperate to reliably deliver data between nodes outside of direct communication range. However, application specific requirements, such as high sampling rates, vast amounts of data to be collected, precise internodal synchronization, and reliable communication, are quite challenging to achieve with generic multi-hop communication protocols. This paper proposes two complementary reliable multi-hop communication solutions for monitoring of civil infrastructure. In the first approach, termed herein General Purpose Multi-hop (GPMH), the wide variety of communication patterns involved in structural health monitoring, particularly in decentralized implementations, are acknowledged to develop a flexible and adaptable any-to-any communication protocol. In the second approach, termed herein Single-Sink Multi-hop (SSMH), an efficient many-to-one protocol utilizing all available RF channels is designed to minimize the time required to collect the large amounts of data generated by dense arrays of sensor nodes. Both protocols adopt the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol, which provides any-to-any routing and multi-cast capability, and supports a broad range of communication patterns. The proposed implementations refine the routing metric by considering the stability of links, exclude functionality unnecessary in mostly-static WSSNs, and integrate a reliable communication layer with the AODV protocol. These customizations have resulted in robust realizations of multi-hop reliable communication that meet the demands of structural health monitoring.