• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.37-41
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• 2021

This paper presents a study to implement a touch screen capable of real-time response processing in a low-end embedded system. This was done by introducing an algorithm using an interpolation method to represent real-time response characteristics when a touch input is performed. In this experiment, we applied a linear interpolation algorithm that estimates random data by deriving a first-order polynomial from 2-point data. We also applied a Lagrange interpolation algorithm that estimates random data by deriving a quadratic polynomial from 3-point data. As a result of the experiment, it was found that the Lagrange interpolation method was more complicated than the linear interpolation method, and the processing speed was slow, so the text was not smooth. When using the linear interpolation method, it was confirmed that the speed displayed on a screen is 2.4 times faster than when using the Lagrange interpolation method. For real-time response characteristics, it was confirmed that smaller size of the executable file of the algorithm is more advantageous than the superiority of the algorithm itself. In conclusion, in order to secure real-time response characteristics in a low-end embedded system, it was confirmed that a relatively simple linear interpolation algorithm performs touch operations with better real-time response characteristics than the Lagrange interpolation method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.1693-1700
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• 2010

Field data acquisition is faster in PDA-based mobile environment compared with document-based data acquisition, ensuring accurate data acquisition. However, portable DAQ systems of mobile environment can effectively replace DAQ systems embedded in computers but are less capable than DAQ systems embedded in computers and usually used in environments different from computers, causing noises whose cause are characteristics not certainly known. Therefore, in order to collect mobile-based field data, CompactFlash card-based hardware prototypes are suggested and mobile applications which guarantee acquisition of large amount of data with low hardware capability are performed. According to the test, mobile environments such as PDA were proved to be an effective way of collecting large amount of data. However, hardware performance has major effects on sequential data acquisition in mobile environments regardless of data display.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.335-342
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• 2010

Nowadays, the major manufacturer of the mobile devices has offered its own solution for the data synchronization. But each manufacturer uses its proprietary data synchronization method so that the compatibility of data can not be guaranteed. To solve such problems, a gateway is needed to convert different forms of data into a unified form of data and vice versa. Some problems have been found in the experiments with the previously implemented gateway. First, a bottleneck state might arise if a number of mobile devices request data synchronization simultaneously. Second, the gateway itself would become a serious vulnerable point to an attack during the process of converting received data. The proposed gateway can solve this bottleneck state and security issue since it converts data and processes synchronization request in a mobile device. In this paper, the proposed gateway is constructed and the results of some experiments with the gateway are presented. According to the results, the proposed gateway operates properly and it is relatively insensitive to the bottleneck state.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.159-164
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• 2023

Solar energy harvesting IoT devices prioritize maximizing the utilization of collected energy due to the periodic recharging nature of solar energy, rather than minimizing energy consumption. Meanwhile, research on edge AI, which performs machine learning near the data source instead of the cloud, is actively conducted for reasons such as data confidentiality and privacy, response time, and cost. One such research area involves performing various audio AI applications using audio data collected from multiple IoT devices in an IoT edge computing environment. However, in most studies, IoT devices only perform sensing data transmission to the edge server, and all processes, including data preprocessing, are performed on the edge server. In this case, it not only leads to overload issues on the edge server but also causes network congestion by transmitting unnecessary data for learning. On the other way, if data preprocessing is delegated to each IoT device to address this issue, it leads to another problem of increased blackout time due to energy shortages in the devices. In this paper, we aim to alleviate the problem of increased blackout time in devices while mitigating issues in server-centric edge AI environments by determining where the data preprocessed based on the energy state of each IoT device. In the proposed method, IoT devices only perform the preprocessing process, which includes sound discrimination and noise removal, and transmit to the server if there is more energy available than the energy threshold required for the basic operation of the device.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.186-189
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• 2005

An embedded monitoring and control system which can be controlled and monitored with web, was implemented in this paper. The principal data which should be controlled are the present temperature and pH of a fish farm. The input signals are from temperature sensors and pH sensors. The input data are digital which are A/D converted every constant time, and the results are stored to the database. The converted data are displayed on a large electric signboard at the fish-farm. This system was designed that supervisors can control the system and watch the real situation of the fish-farm at remote places.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.949-955
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• 2007

This paper proposes an efficient localization algorithm in the RFID sensor space for the precise localization of a mobile robot. The RFID sensor space consists of embedded sensors and a mobile robot. The embedded sensors, that is tags are holding the absolute position data and provide them to the robot which carries a reader and requests the absolute position fur localization. The reader, it is called as antenna usually, gets several tag data at the same time within its readable range. It takes time to read all the tags and to process the data to estimate the position, which is a major factor to deteriorate the localization accuracy. In this paper, an efficient algorithm to estimate the position and orientation of the mobile robot as quickly as possible has been proposed. Along with the algorithm, a new allocation of the tags in the RFID sensor space is also proposed to improve the localization accuracy. The proposed algorithms are demonstrated and verified through the real experiments.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.55 no.4
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• pp.165-172
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• 2006

In this paper we present a technique for detecting cross-reference points that allows improving watermark detect-ability. In general, Harris detector is commonly used for finding salient points. Harris detector is a kind of combined corner and edge detector which is based on neighboring image data distribution, therefore it has some limitation to find accurate salient points after watermark embedding or any kinds of digital attacks. The new method proposed in this paper used not data distribution but geometrical structure of a normalized image in order to avoid pointing error caused by the distortion of image data. After normalization, we constructed pre-specified number of virtual lines from top to bottom and left to right, and several of cross points were selected by a random key. These selected points specify almost same positions with the accuracy more than that of Harris detector after digital attacks. These points were arranged by a random key, and blocks centered in these points were formed. A reference watermark is formed by a block and embedded in the next block. Because same alteration is applied to the watermark generated and embedded blocks. the detect-ability of watermark is improved even after digital attacks.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.142-149
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• 2007

Wireless sensor network technology is an emerging technology consisting of small, low power, and low cost devices that integrate limited computation, sensing, and radio communication capabilities. An ad-hoc home network system based embedded system for home environment monitoring was fabricated and tested. The wireless sensor node consists of a MCU, RF transceiver and sensors (temperature, humidity and light). Wireless sensor nodes run application software for data sampling and wireless communication, that was developed using 'nesC language' which runs on TinyOS. In our tests, acquired sensors data were monitored on 6.4" TFT-LCD of base-station through IEEE802.15.4 standard wireless communication. Also, the sensor data can be monitored by client user at the terminal PC to monitor environmental status of home in real time.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.703-707
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• 2008

This paper designs and implements a software prober to support a more effective power analysis for Linux-based embedded systems by using power consumption data measured in hardware. The proposed software prober, which is included in a target system as a module, collects power data and provides a service to discover major power consumers in user functions of applications or kernel functions through time synchronization between the power data measured in hardware and software. In addition, we verified usefulness of the implemented software prober by running user applications on target systems.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.243-253
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• 2010

Multihop data delivery in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) suffers from the fact that vehicles are highly mobile and inter-vehicle links are frequently disconnected. In such networks, for efficient multihop routing of road safety information (e.g. road accident and emergency message) to the area of interest, reliable communication and fast delivery with minimum delay are mandatory. In this paper, we propose a multihop vehicle-to-infrastructure routing protocol named Vertex-Based Predictive Greedy Routing (VPGR), which predicts a sequence of valid vertices (or junctions) from a source vehicle to fixed infrastructure (or a roadside unit) in the area of interest and, then, forwards data to the fixed infrastructure through the sequence of vertices in urban environments. The well known predictive directional greedy routing mechanism is used for data forwarding phase in VPGR. The proposed VPGR leverages the geographic position, velocity, direction and acceleration of vehicles for both the calculation of a sequence of valid vertices and the predictive directional greedy routing. Simulation results show significant performance improvement compared to conventional routing protocols in terms of packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay and routing overhead.