• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.89-94
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• 2018

This paper investigated the design method of the smart sensor for implementing IoT (Internet of Things) service. The power supply of sensor consistently acquisting data is based on the energy harvesting technology and designed with piezoelectric transducer not affected by surrounding circumstances. The wireless communication interface for the transmission of data is designed with BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). BLE is highly adequate wireless communication technology for low power consumption and short distance wireless communication. The main application of BLE is beacon whose usage range is extended from O2O (Online to Offline) service, navigator based on indoor positioning technology, and anti-theft/lost child prevention service to mobile game. This paper studied the method to extend wireless coverage for complementing the short wireless transmission distance of BLE. The wireless sensor network based on CATV network is proposed for the easy construction of BLE sensor network and extended wireless coverage.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.419-424
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• 2015

The era of IoT in which all objects are intelligent and are connected to the Internet has been started. In order to establish and activate an IoT eco system, open services platform is very important. In this paper, we developed a BLE sensor module as a component of the open service platform based on the IoT and the open source hardware Blutooth4.0. To verify the functionality and performance of the developed BLE sensor module was built to evaluate the performance of the test environment.

• 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.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.8-13
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• 2022

This paper investigates the method to implement a RF (Radio Frequency) energy harvesting sensor node and to build a sensor network using a CATV network and a leaky coaxial cable. The power supply of a sensor node is designed with the WPTS (Wireless Power Transfer System) receiver operating at 915MHz. A sensor network has limited coverage by the loss of RF signal at a wireless transmission link. The paper proposes to build a sensor network that the BLE signal of a sensor and the signal of a WPTS power transmitter are transmitted through a coaxial cable of a CATV network by utilizing WOC (WiFi over Coax) technology and radiates at a leaky coaxial cable. The length of a leaky coaxial cable and the total loss of a wire link are allowed to the point that the RSSI of a sensor node is more than the minimum value (-78dBm) and lead to extend wireless coverage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.300-302
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• 2021

Usage of a face mask has become mandatory in many countries after the COVID-19. This paper described to develop a IoT based smart mask system for monitoring face mask. The system developed in this paper has two main units, a sensor module, and a smartphone application. The sensor module consists of four components: temperature and humidity sensor, a heart rate sensor, and a BLE chip. This components work as a unit to collect data and stream them through an I2C port over BLE to a connected mobile device. The smartphone application is an Android application developed for smart phones. It enables the Android device to communicate with the sensor to receive sensor data, process, store and display results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.8
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• pp.3-12
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• 2016

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol has attracted attention as a promising technology for low data throughput and low energy wireless sensor networks. Fast device discovery is very important in a BLE based wireless network. It is necessary to configure the network to work with minimized energy consumption because the BLE network nodes are expected to operate a long time typically on a coin cell battery. However, since it is difficult to obtain low energy and low latency at the same time, the BLE standard introduces wide range setting of parameters related to device discovery process and let the network operators to set up parameter values for the application. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the performance of device discovery according to the related parameter values prior to BLE network operation. In this paper we analyze the expected value and the cumulative distribution function of the number of advertisements for device discovery in the BLE network. In addition, we propose a scheme for controlling the interval between advertising events that can improve the performance of device discovery without increasing energy consumption.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.7
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• pp.93-102
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• 2017

Recently increasing usage of smartphones makes the Internet of Things (IoT) a leading technology that can collect and share data through sensor networks and wireless communication such as low-power Bluetooth (BLE). BLE-based application can provide operators more precise information on Automatic Door system by remotely diagnosing the system faults through wireless sensor networks and sensors around the Automatic Door. In this paper, a smart device with extended BLE module is implemented which can monitor and Control the system states and faults remotely without on-site diagnostic. while maintaining system integrity so that increase efficiency of time and costs for system management. We can use the results of this research as a basis in evaluating reliability of data between devices, extending communication module in Controller of obsolete Door systems, and establishing centralized monitoring systems in near future with multi-channel Door Controls.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.11-12
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• 2020

반려동물의 건강상태를 확인하기 위해 심박수, 호흡수의 변화를 관찰하는 것이 중요하다. 측정을 위한 웨어러블 장치를 통해 심박수를 측정하기 위해 무선 통신 기술을 이용하여 실시간으로 센서 데이터를 수집하고 그 추이를 볼 수 있도록 해야 한다. 반려동물에 장착되는 웨어러블 장치의 특성상 무거운 고용량의 배터리를 사용할 수 없다. 따라서 저전력 통신 기술인 BLE를 사용하여 실시간으로 센서 데이터를 전송하도록 하고, 이 데이터를 스마트폰에서 수집하여 실시간으로 그래프를 그리고, CSV 파일로 저장한다. 구현된 애플리케이션을 통해 센서 데이터의 변화를 직관적으로 분석할 수 있으며 차후 분석할 수 있는 데이터를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.37-38
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• 2015

최근 안드로이드 4.0 이상 버전에서 저전력 블루투스(Bluetooth Low Energy) 기능이 지원되면서, 다양한 응용사례가 나타나고 있다. 이러한 BLE 프로토콜을 활용하는 Sensor-Tag IoT 센서노드를 활용하면 스마트홈, 웨어러블, 스마트카, 생활밀착 서비스, 스마트에너지, 산업 및 환경분야에서 다양한 스마트폰 앱을 개발할 수 있다. 또한, BLE-스택(Stack)TM 소프트웨어를 사용하면, 라이센서 걱정없이 펌웨어 소스코드의 개발 및 업데이트가 가능하다. 따라서, 다양한 센서가 장착된 IoT Sensor 노드를 통하여, 습도/온도/가속도/지자기/자이로 등의 데이터를 수집하여 활용할 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 "저전력 센서 노드를 사용한 IoT 서비스 설계 프레임워크"를 제안한다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1085-1092
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• 2018

Recently, Internet (IoT) and big data have been utilized in various fields such as medical, military and sports. Korea Nazarene University is a rehabilitation-welfare university with about 300 students with disabilities. This paper proposes a smart campus that provides the optimal path for the calculation of the route and risk avoidance using the BLE beacon and the 3-axis acceleration sensor when the students with disabilities move in the campus both indoors and outdoors. So we can manage the big data and sensor-based IoT technology for students with disabilities.