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Design of Smart Device Assistive Emergency WayFinder Using Vision Based Emergency Exit Sign Detection

  • Lee, Minwoo;Mariappan, Vinayagam;Mfitumukiza, Joseph;Lee, Junghoon;Cho, Juphil;Cha, Jaesang
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.101-106
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we present Emergency exit signs are installed to provide escape routes or ways in buildings like shopping malls, hospitals, industry, and government complex, etc. and various other places for safety purpose to aid people to escape easily during emergency situations. In case of an emergency situation like smoke, fire, bad lightings and crowded stamped condition at emergency situations, it's difficult for people to recognize the emergency exit signs and emergency doors to exit from the emergency building areas. This paper propose an automatic emergency exit sing recognition to find exit direction using a smart device. The proposed approach aims to develop an computer vision based smart phone application to detect emergency exit signs using the smart device camera and guide the direction to escape in the visible and audible output format. In this research, a CAMShift object tracking approach is used to detect the emergency exit sign and the direction information extracted using template matching method. The direction information of the exit sign is stored in a text format and then using text-to-speech the text synthesized to audible acoustic signal. The synthesized acoustic signal render on smart device speaker as an escape guide information to the user. This research result is analyzed and concluded from the views of visual elements selecting, EXIT appearance design and EXIT's placement in the building, which is very valuable and can be commonly referred in wayfinder system.

A Monitoring System for Working Environments Using Wireless Sensor Networks (무선 센서 네트워크를 이용한 작업환경 모니터링 시스템)

  • Jung, Sang-Joon;Chung, Youn-Ky
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.12 no.10
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    • pp.1478-1485
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    • 2009
  • A sensor network which is composed of a large number of sensors that perform various sensing is applied in a variety of fields. The sensor networks can be widely used for various application area like as home automation, fire detection and security area. Development of new sensor to have appropriate functions and deployment of networks for suitable application are served actively. In this paper, we design and implement a system that monitors various factory facilities by deploying sensor network at a working place which threatens the worker's safety. A sensor node reports its sensing data like as temperature and humidity to monitor facilities to a sink node. And the server which is connect to the sink node gathers and provides information by user interface. In addition, digital data which are generated at a work place can be transferred via the sensor network to increase the efficiency of works. The proposed sensor network provides the convenience of working, since it is deployed at a garbage collection company to monitor a temperature and humidity of garbage and to transmit data about the weight of trucks which enters the company.

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A Study of Evaluation Certification on Electronic Power u-IT Convergence Equipment (전력 u-IT 융복합화 기기의 평가와 인증 연구)

  • Yi, Jeong-Hoon;Park, Dea-Woo;Kim, Eung-Sik;Kim, Hong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.13 no.11
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    • pp.2433-2440
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    • 2009
  • Whole system and network for supply of electric power and electricity safety are essential element. Electricity safety technology need rating for product and research about certification as product development that is done electric power u-IT cotton flannel mixed with development of u-IT, u-City base technology consists. Study on serve to develop electricity safety integration supervision system to apply product to u-City electric power appliance and cotton flannel mixed of u-IT appliance, Connection badness sensing instrument made device built-in electric power u-IT cotton flannel mixed in outlet that is used most in electric power appliance terminal. Using sensor on ZigBee, RFID performance estimation of communication module about function of product for remote safety check of electricity safety integration supervision system. A performance experiment and estimation in electric leakage, high voltage, Arc, fire detection diagnosis system and certification KS, electricity safety about product that get fitness finding.

3D LIDAR Based Vehicle Localization Using Synthetic Reflectivity Map for Road and Wall in Tunnel

  • Im, Jun-Hyuck;Im, Sung-Hyuck;Song, Jong-Hwa;Jee, Gyu-In
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.159-166
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    • 2017
  • The position of autonomous driving vehicle is basically acquired through the global positioning system (GPS). However, GPS signals cannot be received in tunnels. Due to this limitation, localization of autonomous driving vehicles can be made through sensors mounted on them. In particular, a 3D Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system is used for longitudinal position error correction. Few feature points and structures that can be used for localization of vehicles are available in tunnels. Since lanes in the road are normally marked by solid line, it cannot be used to recognize a longitudinal position. In addition, only a small number of structures that are separated from the tunnel walls such as sign boards or jet fans are available. Thus, it is necessary to extract usable information from tunnels to recognize a longitudinal position. In this paper, fire hydrants and evacuation guide lights attached at both sides of tunnel walls were used to recognize a longitudinal position. These structures have highly distinctive reflectivity from the surrounding walls, which can be distinguished using LIDAR reflectivity data. Furthermore, reflectivity information of tunnel walls was fused with the road surface reflectivity map to generate a synthetic reflectivity map. When the synthetic reflectivity map was used, localization of vehicles was able through correlation matching with the local maps generated from the current LIDAR data. The experiments were conducted at an expressway including Maseong Tunnel (approximately 1.5 km long). The experiment results showed that the root mean square (RMS) position errors in lateral and longitudinal directions were 0.19 m and 0.35 m, respectively, exhibiting precise localization accuracy.

Low-Informative Region Detection based on Multi-Layer Perceptron for Automatical Insertion of Virtual Advertisement in Sports Image (스포츠 영상 내에서 자동적인 가상 광고 삽입을 위한 다층퍼셉트론 기반의 저정보 영역 검출)

  • Jung, Jae-Young;Kim, Jong-Ha
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.71-77
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    • 2017
  • Virtual advertisement is an advertising technique that using computer graphic in a media production such as a sports image for inserting product image, logo, advertising slogan, etc. Recently, the image insertion of virtual advertisement is actively spreading due to the satisfaction of technical element for the image insertion of virtual advertisement in sports advertisement by increasing of the image processing technology and the computing performance. In addition, image processing technology for automatic insertion has become an important research field in the virtual advertisement field. In this paper, we propose the method of extracting less-informative region by using image processing technique and machine learning to insert a virtual advertisement automatically in sports image. The proposed method analyzes the brightness level of image through the histogram and extracts the less-informative region using the machine learning method.

A Study on Performance Evaluation and Security Methods of u-IT Electrical Safety Integrated Management System's Module (u-IT 전기안전통합관리시스템의 모듈별 성능평가와 보안방법 연구)

  • Park, Dae-Woo;Kim, Eung-Sik;Choi, Choung-Moon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.1447-1452
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    • 2010
  • Ubiquitous society to build basic infrastructure in the power supply and power equipment safety is important. u-City in order to prevent the disaster of u-IT Power Equipment Performance Module and the security for the safety of the u-City is necessary. In this paper, the power unit of u-IT module, temperature sensor, humidity sensor, equipped with sensors arranged throughout the fire, and home distribution boards, Home Network Wall-Pad, Blocker, MPNP black boxes, arc detection, arc safety equipment, outlet of the modular performance evaluation methods and security methods will be studied. u-IT power devices and sensors to analyze the information conveyed by proactive risk and ensure safety, access control, authentication, security safeguards, such as u-IT integrated management system for electrical safety and strengthen the security, safety and security with a u-City will contribute to the construction and operation.

A Traffic Aware Demand-Wakeup MAC(TADW-MAC) Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (무선 센서 네트워크에서 트래픽에 적응적인 Demand-Wakeup MAC 프로토콜)

  • Kim, Hye-Yun;Kim, Seong-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.180-186
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    • 2017
  • In this paper we propose a traffic aware Demand Wakeup MAC(TADW-MAC) protocol, in which low data delay and high throughput can be achieved, for wireless sensor networks. With the TADW-MAC protocol, the problem of the DW-MAC protocol, which schedules only one packet to deliver during the Sleep period in a multi-hop transmission is resolved. DW-MAC is not adequate for the applications such as object tracking and fire detection, in which busty data should be transmitted in a limited time when an event occurs [6-8]. When an event occurs, duty cycle can be adjusted in the TADW-MAC protocol to get less energy consumption and low latency. The duty cycle mechanism has been widely used to save energy consumption of sensor node due to idle listening in wireless sensor networks. But additional delay in packet transmission may be increased in the mechanism. Our simulation results show that TADW-MAC outperforms RMAC and DW-MAC in terms of energy efficiency while achieving low latency.

A Study on the Comparison between an Optical Fiber and a Thermal Sensor Cable for Temperature Monitoring (온도 모니터링을 위한 광섬유 센서와 온도센서 배열 케이블의 비교 연구)

  • Kim, Jung-Yul;Kim, Yoo-Sung;Song, Yoon-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2006.03a
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    • pp.1100-1109
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    • 2006
  • In this study, two different technologies which can measure temperature simultaneously at many points are introduced. One is to use a thermal sensor cable that is comprised of addressable thermal sensors connected in parallel within a single cable. The other is to use an optic fiber with Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) system. The difference between two technologies can be summarized as follows. A thermal sensor cable has a concept of 'point sensing' that can measure temperature at accurate position of a thermal sensor. So the accuracy and resolution of temperature measurement are up to the ability of the thermal sensor. Whereas optic fiber sensor has a concept of 'distributed sensing' because temperature is measured by ratio of Stokes and anti-Stokes component intensities of Raman backscatter that is generated when laser pulse travels along an optic fiber. It's resolution is determined by measuring distance, measuring time and spatial resolution. The purpose of this study is that application targets of two temperature measurement techniques are checked in technical and economical phases by examining the strength and weakness of them. Considering the functions and characteristics of two techniques, the thermal sensor cable will be suitable to apply to the assessment of groundwater flow, geothermal distribution and grouting efficiency within 300m distance. It is expected that the optic fiber sensor can be widely utilized at various fields (for example: pipe line inspection, tunnel fire detection, power line monitoring etc.) which need an information of temperature distribution over relatively long distance.

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Home Security System Based on IoT (IoT 기반 홈 보안 시스템)

  • Kim, Kang-Chul;Wang, Ding-Hua;Han, Seok-Bung
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.147-154
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    • 2017
  • This paper aims to build a home security system based on IoT to monitor a home on a mobile phone. The system consists of data gathering sensors, camera, gateway and Xively platform. The Raspberry Pi collects data from the three sensors and sends the data to Xively, and sends the video stream of home to a client in a smart phone through a internet. The servers are composed of Xively, socket server in Raspberry Pi and E-mail server in Google. The proposed system transmits e-mail, text message, and video stream when there are motion, fire, and gas leakage, and can control the gas valve through Raspberry Pi. The experimental results show that a user gets 'emergency E-mail' and text message and watches the video stream of the home through WIFI or LTE on a smart phone.

North Korean military provocations and the corresponding direction - Focus on the threat that resulted in unequal power wood box mines provocation - (북한군의 군사적 도발 및 대응방향 - 목함 지뢰 도발에 이어진 비대칭전력 위협을 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Gyu Nam
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.15 no.6_1
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    • pp.59-67
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    • 2015
  • Our vision is to see the North and there is a large visual target that the two exchanges and cooperation and unity that put the main enemy of enemies in mind in need. North Korea is the main enemy was illegal invasion June 25, 1950 July 27, 1953 has continued after the armistice join the illegal provocations and cease fire violations so far. August 4, 2015, North Korea was operating by the power differential that operate on an all-out war and declared the initial state after the exhibition gave another provocative DMZ wood box mines. US-ROK military was in the process of real-time detection of the North Korean power operation and the results were broadcast live through the media. Looking at these military provocations on the threat of asymmetrical power of North Korea's military threat, we would like to present how to respond.