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Smart Vision Sensor for Satellite Video Surveillance Sensor Network (위성 영상감시 센서망을 위한 스마트 비젼 센서)

  • Kim, Won-Ho;Im, Jae-Yoo
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.70-74
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, satellite communication based video surveillance system that consisted of ultra-small aperture terminals with small-size smart vision sensor is proposed. The events such as forest fire, smoke, intruder movement are detected automatically in field and false alarms are minimized by using intelligent and high-reliable video analysis algorithms. The smart vision sensor is necessary to achieve high-confidence, high hardware endurance, seamless communication and easy maintenance requirements. To satisfy these requirements, real-time digital signal processor, camera module and satellite transceiver are integrated as a smart vision sensor-based ultra-small aperture terminal. Also, high-performance video analysis and image coding algorithms are embedded. The video analysis functions and performances were verified and confirmed practicality through computer simulation and vision sensor prototype test.

A System Level Network-on-chip Model with MLDesigner

  • Agarwal, Ankur;Shankar, Rabi;Pandya, A.S.;Lho, Young-Uhg
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.122-128
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    • 2008
  • Multiprocessor architectures and platforms, such as, a multiprocessor system on chip (MPSoC) recently introduced to extend the applicability of the Moore's law, depend upon concurrency and synchronization in both software and hardware to enhance design productivity and system performance. With the rapidly approaching billion transistors era, some of the main problem in deep sub-micron technologies characterized by gate lengths in the range of 60-90 nm will arise from non scalable wire delays, errors in signal integrity and non-synchronized communication. These problems may be addressed by the use of Network on Chip (NOC) architecture for future System-on-Chip (SoC). We have modeled a concurrent architecture for a customizable and scalable NOC in a system level modeling environment using MLDesigner (from MLD Inc.). Varying network loads under various traffic scenarios were applied to obtain realistic performance metrics. We provide the simulation results for latency as a function of the buffer size. We have abstracted the area results for NOC components from its FPGA implementation. Modeled NOC architecture supports three different levels of quality-of-service (QoS).

A Service Framework for Emotional Contents on Broadcast and Communication Converged IPTV Systems (IPTV를 위한 방송통신 융합형 감성 콘텐츠의 운용 및 서비스 기술)

  • Sung, Min-Young;Paek, Seon-Uck;Ahn, Seong-Hye
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.737-742
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    • 2009
  • As increasing emphasis is being placed on user experience design, the RIA technology is widely deployed for user interface and software operation on embedded devices including cell phones and TVs. In particular, RIA-based IPTV enables creation of various interactive contents via sophisticated animation and various input devices. This paper proposes a service framework for emotional contents on broadcast and communication-converged IPTV systems. We design a programming interface extension for IPTV-based flash contents and develop a prototype of flash runtime with the extended programming support. Since the proposed runtime was carefully designed to fully utilize the built-in graphic acceleration hardware in media processor, it supports high resolution graphic animation in resource-constrained IPTV environments.

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Automatic Verification of the Control Flow Model for Effective Embedded Software Design (효과적인 임베디드 소프트웨어 설계를 위한 제어흐름 모델의 자동 검증)

  • Park, Sa-Choun;Kwon, Gi-Hwon;Ha, Soon-Hoi
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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    • v.12A no.7 s.97
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    • pp.563-570
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    • 2005
  • Hardware and software codesign framework called PeaCE(Ptolemy extension as a Cod sign Environment) allows to express both data flow and control flow. To formally verify an fFSM specification which expresses control flow in PeaCE, the step semantics of the model was defined. In this paper, we introduce the automatic verification tool developed by formal semantics of previous work. This tool uses the SMV as inner model checker md, through our tool, users can formally verify some important bugs such as race condition, ambiguous transition, and circulartransition without directly writing logical formulae.

Design and Fabrication of Low Power Sensor Network Platform for Ubiquitous Health Care

  • Lee, Young-Dong;Jeong, Do-Un;Chung, Wan-Young
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1826-1829
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    • 2005
  • Recent advancement in wireless communications and electronics has enabled the development of low power sensor network. Wireless sensor network are often used in remote monitoring control applications, health care, security and environmental monitoring. Wireless sensor networks are an emerging technology consisting of small, low-power, and low-cost devices that integrate limited computation, sensing, and radio communication capabilities. Sensor network platform for health care has been designed, fabricated and tested. This system consists of an embedded micro-controller, Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver, power management, I/O expansion, and serial communication (RS-232). The hardware platform uses Atmel ATmega128L 8-bit ultra low power RISC processor with 128KB flash memory as the program memory and 4KB SRAM as the data memory. The radio transceiver (Chipcon CC1000) operates in the ISM band at 433MHz or 916MHz with a maximum data rate of 76.8kbps. Also, the indoor radio range is approximately 20-30m. When many sensors have to communicate with the controller, standard communication interfaces such as Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) or Integrated Circuit ($I^{2}C$) allow sharing a single communication bus. With its low power, the smallest and low cost design, the wireless sensor network system and wireless sensing electronics to collect health-related information of human vitality and main physiological parameters (ECG, Temperature, Perspiration, Blood Pressure and some more vitality parameters, etc.)

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The Design of a Biomedical Signal Measure System Based on Sensor Networks (센서 네트워크 기반의 생체 신호 측정 시스템 설계)

  • Lee, Jin-Kwan;Lee, Dae-Hyung;Jung, Kyu-Cheol;Jang, Hae-Suk;Lee, Jong-Chan;Park, Ki-Hong
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2007
  • The object of this paper is to design a biomedical signal measure systems based on sensor networks for the patient, integrated with computing technology. Using a combination of zigbee RF, embedded hardware and software technologies, as it allows the healthcare center to receive the information on emergency situations and the ordinary state of the patients individually or simultaneously, the healthcare center can copy with quickly a state of emergency and assist the normal life of the patient. In order to meet the low power and other requirements for the proposed system, we introduce a zigbee based RP which is the most suitable solution for improving the performance of our beeper system.

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Temperature Effect on Impedance-based Damage Monitoring of Steel-Bolt Connection using Wireless Impedance Sensor Node (무선 임피던스 센서노드를 이용한 강-볼트 접합부의 임피던스기반 손상모니터링에 미치는 온도 영향)

  • Hong, Dong-Soo;Kim, Jeong-Tae
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2012
  • This paper presents the effect of temperature on the impedance-based damage monitoring of steel-bolt connections using wireless impedance sensor nodes. In order to achieve the objective, the following approaches are implemented. First, a temperature-compensated damage monitoring scheme that includes a temperature compensation model and damage detection method is described. The temperature compensation model is designed by analyzing the linear regressions between the temperatures and impedance signatures. The correlation coefficient of the impedance signatures is selected as the damage index to monitor the damage occurrence in the target structures. Second, a wireless impedance sensor node is described for the design of the hardware components and embedded software. Finally, the performance of the temperature-compensated impedance-based damage monitoring scheme is evaluated for detecting a loose bolt in the steel-bolt connections on a lab-scale steel girder under various temperatures.

Design and Implementation of the Mobile Flash for Flash Game on Mobile Terminals (휴대 단말기에서 플래시 게임을 위한 Mobile Flash의 설계 및 구현)

  • Oh, Hwang-Seok;Lee, Jae-Young;Kim, Man-Soo;Lee, Chung-Hwan
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.11-16
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    • 2005
  • As an improvement of the CPU performance of mobile terminals and an increase of user requirements for multimedia services, various multimedia services and applications have been developed and served over mobile platforms. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of the Mobile Flash which is one of the famous services in mobile platforms with the limitation of hardware resources. The Mobile flash is an optimized solution for mobile terminals of the Flash, which has been used in the Internet browsers not less than 95% in the world for playing various types of contents such as animations, games, contents for education, e-commerce.

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Implementation of Multi-function Sensor Module for Vessel Safety Monitoring (어선안전 모니터링 다기능 센서 모듈의 구현)

  • Choi, Jo-Cheon;Cho, Seung-Il;Kim, Seong-Kweon;Kim, Jai-Hyun;Choi, Gyoo-Seok;Cha, Jea-Sang
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.135-139
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    • 2009
  • In order to cope with safety issues regarding fisher vessels, a device is required with the real-time monitoring for the safety and risk factors for a capability of informing and alerting function. In embedded modules, there is a trouble that we should design device drivers and application programs for usage of the multi-function sensors in order to detect risk factors. In this paper, we designed hardware circuit and implemented control program of the sensor part using PIC18F, in order to control and process the input and output data of multi-function sensors without device drivers and application programs. We confirmed the operation of multi-function sensor module to generate output data according to sensor operation.

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MAG Protocol Implementation for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Systems (무산 LAN용 IEEE 802.11 MAC 프로토콜의 구현)

  • Na, N.;Choi, J.;Han, T.;Ahn, D.;Lee, D.;Hong, Y.;Hwang, I.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2001.11c
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    • pp.380-382
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    • 2001
  • This paper presents the implementation of IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control and Physical Layer Protocol that can be applied to wireless LAN system. We have used PRISM2 chipsets from Intersil to build the baseband, IF, and RF parts. DSSS(Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum) physical layer at 2.4GHz ISM band is adopted in the hardware prototype. To meet the high-speed requirement of physical layer, we have designed the MAC protocol layer with embedded firmware and FPGA. The prototype board is shown to be able to support the physical layer of 5GHz and 600Hz wireless LAN systems.

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