• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.11-17
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• 2010

Korea plans to be the world's first country to transform its electricity network into "smart grids," which use information and operational technologies to help to facilitate the reduction of carbon emissions, make more efficient use of existing infrastructure/resources through meeting customer demand/less generation, and support renewable resources with real time monitoring and controls. In this situation, universities do the needful on priority to nurture smart grid engineers who will be responsible for state-of-the-art technologies as today's electric grid transitions to a digital network. This paper thus attempts to permanently turn out high-quality human resources in electrical engineering by fleshing out strategies for training smart electric grid engineers, based on lessons from a national undertaking of nurturing qualified power IT engineers starting on February 1 of 2007.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.137-151
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• 2015

This study undertakes a simulation analysis for evaluating the benefits and costs of smart grid hub project. The purpose of the study is to explore extensively the alternatives for infrastructure configurations and identify the best scenarios that can satisfy all the stakeholder needs. We consider 19 parameters for configurating a smart grid hub city, and take a strategy of exhaustive search to find configurations that meet the two criteria simultaneously: each stakeholder's B/C ratio should be equally distributed and the B/C ratio of the entire city should be maximized. The results offer some meaningful implications for building a successful deployment strategy that can facilitate the diffusion of smart grid technologies.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.712-719
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• 2013

This paper studies the security module for the reliable transmission of the meter reading and the control data between the remote terminals and the upper server-side in smart water grid. The proposed security module was implemented to make it attachable to the remote terminal without security function. In particular, unlike the smart grid of electric field, the low power is considered due to the use of battery power in the smart water grid, and the ARIA-GCM-128 symmetric key method is adopted taking into the account that the damp and constrictive environments by the installed meter location in the underground occur a communication obstacle on building of the large-scale network system. The encryption module of this paper was devised to ensure the safety between the reading data on the terminal and the control data from the upper server, and secure the stability of the remote meter reading system by taking protection against an arbitrary alteration or modification.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.329-333
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• 2021

V2G (Vehicle to Grid) technology for an EV (Electric Vehicle) has been assumed as so promising in a near future for its useful energy resource concept but still yet to be developed around the world for specific service purposes through various R&BD projects. Basically, V2G returns power stored in vehicle at a cheaper or unused time to the grid at more expensive or highly peaked time, and is accordingly supposed to provide such roles like peak shaving or load levelling according to customer load curve, frequency regulation or ancillary reserves, and balancing power fluctuation to grid from the weather-sensitive renewable sources like wind or solar generations. However, it has recently been debated over its prominent usage as diffusing EVs and the required charging/discharging infrastructure, partially for its addition of EV ownership costs with more frequent charging/discharging events and user inconvenience with a relative long-time participation in the previously engaged V2G program. This study suggests that a Korean DR (Demand Response) service integrated V2G system especially based upon a dynamic charge/pause/discharge scheme newly proposed to ISO/IEC 15118 rev. 2 can deal with these concerns with more profitable business model, while fully making up for the additional component (ex. battery) and service costs. It also indicates that the optimum economic, environmental, and grid impacts can be simulated for this V2G-DR service particularly designed for EV aggregators (V2G service providers) by proposing a specific V2G engagement program for the mediated DR service providers and the distributed EV owners.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.63 no.8
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• pp.1111-1115
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• 2014

With the increasing interest of a demand side management using a Smart Grid infrastructure, the demand resources and energy usage data management becomes an important factor in energy industry. In addition, with the help of Advanced Measuring Infrastructure(AMI), energy usage data becomes a Big Data System. Therefore, it becomes difficult to store and manage the demand resources big data using a traditional relational database management system. Furthermore, not many researches have been done to analyze the big energy data collected using AMI. In this paper, we are proposing a Hadoop based Big Data system to manage the demand resources energy data and we will also show how the demand side management systems can be used to improve energy efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06b
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• pp.523-526
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• 2010

고에너지 물리나 바이오 인포매틱스 연구 분야는 대량의 컴퓨팅 자원을 필요로 한다. 이를 위해서 클러스터 컴퓨팅, 그리드 컴퓨팅, 슈퍼 컴퓨팅, 클라우드 컴퓨팅 자원 등의 여러 컴퓨팅 자원이 사용된다. 사용자는 각 컴퓨팅 자원을 이용하기 위해서 각각의 사용 방법을 배우고, 저마다의 방법으로 각 컴퓨팅 자원을 사용한다. 사용자가 각 컴퓨터 자원의 사용 방법을 습득하기 위해서는 많은 비용과 시간이 필요하다. 사용자가 보다 쉽고 빠르게 컴퓨팅 자원을 활용하기 위하여 여러 컴퓨팅 자원을 사용하기 위한 동일 인터페이스 개발이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 한국과학기술정보연구원의 타키온 슈퍼컴퓨터를 이용하는 사용자에게 동일한 사용자 인터페이스를 제공하기 위한 Ganga의 원격 SGE 백엔드(Backend) 플러그인을 설계하고 구현하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11b
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• pp.2001-2006
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• 2008

The most concerning issue of these days is the energy crisis by increasing threat of dependency on foreign oil and its volatility itself. In the situations, the PHEV is drawing attention for the next generation's car which could give a chance to decrease the dependency on foreign oil. As well as, the Korean electric power infrastructure is a strategic national asset that is under utilized most of the time. With the proper changes in the operational paradigm, it could generate and deliver necessary energy to charge the PHEVs which could penetrate the market within few years. In doing so, it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve the economics of the electricity industry, and reduce the energy dependency. This paper investigate the technical potential and impacts of using the existing idle capacity of the electric infrastructure in conjunction with the emerging PHEVs technology to meet the majority of daily energy needs of the Korean LDV fleet.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.829-836
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• 2017

This paper is a study on development of a new structured AMR/AMI(automatic meter reading/advance metering infrastructure) system. The developed system has a faster reading and is cheaper and easier to install compared to the existing AMR/AMI system. The system can be applied to AMR/AMI for five kinds of meters, electricity, gas, water, hot-water and calorie meter, which are used in most Korean households. Test results show that the developed system is both economical and reliable both in theoretical and practical applications. The resuts also show that the developed system is more suitable than existing system for AMR/AMI applications.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1956_1957
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• 2009

전 세계적인 에너지 확보 위기와 $CO_2$ 과다 배출로 인한 지구 온난화 문제에 당면한 현재의 전력산업이 다음 세기에도 지속적으로 성장해 가기 위해서는 에너지 효율 향상과 신 재생에너지에 바탕을 둔 분산전원의 활성화를 통한 환경과의 조화와 더불어 미래 디지털 시대의 에너지 조건을 충족시키기 위한 IT기술과 전력기술의 융합을 통한 자동화되고 지능화된 전력시스템 즉, 스마트그리드로의 변화가 절실히 요구되고 있다. 스마트그리드의 주요 분야 중에서 AMI(Advanced Metering Infrastructure)는 최종 전력 소비자와 전력회사 사이의 전력서비스인프라로, 지능형 전력망(Smart Grid) 구현에 필수적인 핵심 인프라 시스템이며, 공급-수요 상호 인지 기반 수요반응(Demand Response) 실현을 위한 중요 수단이라 할 수 있으며, 다양한 유형의 분산전원체계, 배전지능화시스템 등과 정보 연계 등 미래 지능형 전력망 운용을 위해 요구되는 최우선 지능화 전력망 인프라로 인식되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 AMI 시스템의 해외 구축 동향과 관련 기술 그리고 국내 적용을 위한 방안에 대하여 기술하고자 한다.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.113-115
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• 2006